We the Teachers Blog

By January, 2002, the US was settling into a conventional approach to the unconventional attack mounted against the US on 9/11. In Afghanistan, where the Taliban routed in eight weeks had not dis...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/911-part-ii/

I don’t remember when I heard the news. The planes hit the north and then the south tower while we in California were still asleep. Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, where I had worked for eight year...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/911-twenty-years-later/

Our final episode in this three-part special podcast series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, in which Michael Hurley, former CIA Officer and member of the ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/911-the-fallout/

For the last fifteen months, WE THE TEACHERS featured our two-volume CORE DOCUMENT COLLECTION, DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT, with our colleague Jeremy Gypton's documen...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/slavery-and-its-consequences-core-document-seminars/

Our third episode in the Fall 2021 American Presidency Saturday Webinar series, in which we will examine the president's emergency, war and foreign policy powers. Taking place on Saturday, 2 OCT ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-presidential-war-emergency-and-foreign-policy-powers/

If you are old enough, say thirty or older, you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard. You remember who told you. You recall the look of shock, anger, or dismay in their ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/america-and-the-world-a-never-ending-debate/

In observance of the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, TeachingAmericanHistory interviewed Michael Hurley , former CIA officer and member of the 9/11 Commission, to talk about the c...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/9-11-the-day/

We know this story: A charismatic leader drew followers by preaching about the need for a return to a purer form of Islam. The followers came to be called Taliban, the Arabic word for “students...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-return-of-the-taliban/

 In observance of the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, TeachingAmericanHistory interviewed Michael Hurley , former CIA officer and member of the 9/11 Commission, to talk about...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/september-11th-at-20-years-a-special-podcast-series/

Our Documents in Detail webinar for September 22nd, 2021 will focus on Albert Beveridge's "March of the Flag" speech from 1898 . This document is drawn from our Westward Expansion Core Documents ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-westward-expansion/

This month, in the spirit of our Core Document volume Gender and Equality , we are highlighting women’s achievements in American history.  Today is the 40th anniversary of Associate Justice Sa...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/sandra-day-oconnor-fwotsc/

Why did Kabul fall, and fall so quickly, to the Taliban? The simple answer is that you cannot beat something with nothing. Let’s set aside for another occasion the question of why the Taliban w...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-fall-of-kabul/

 Part 2 of our Fall 2021 series on the American Presidency, which aired live at 11am ET on Saturday, 11 SEP 21. This 75-minute webinar featured a discussion between scholars about the relati...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-the-american-presidency-powers-in-concert-and-conflict-congress-and-the-president/

 Our first Documents in Detail webinar for the 21-22 school year took place on Wednesday, 18 August, at 7pm ET, and focused on the "List of Prints to Illustrate British Cruelties ." Part of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-the-american-revolution/

Many years ago, as I browsed the book section of the North Carolina Museum of History's gift shop, I stumbled upon "DIVIDED ALLEGIANCES: BERTIE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR" by Gerald W. Thomas. Seein...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/war-for-union-or-abolition-chapter-15-from-documents-and-debates/

“I am an idealist when it comes to American ideals,” said Gabriela Townsend, who teaches American history at Benold Middle School in Georgetown, Texas. “We have a system that backs our idea...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-naturalized-citizen-shares-her-idealism/

What can you learn from the webinars TAH will offer in the coming school year? Teacher Program Manager Jeremy Gypton explains. HOW DO TAH WEBINARS HELP TEACHERS AND STUDENTS? The webinars fea...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-2021-2022-webinars-an-interview-with-jeremy-gypton/

This week we’re marking the 125th anniversary of the presidential election season of 1896. In this groundbreaking year, both parties’ candidates deviated from past campaign practices, writes ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/william-mckinley-and-the-first-modern-presidential-election/

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY: THE EXECUTIVE POWER DEFINED Our first Saturday Webinar for the 21-22 school year, and the first in our five-episode Fall 2021 series about the American Presidency took p...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-the-american-presidency-episode-1/

Two of the largest landslides in American presidential elections occurred just sixteen years apart. President Lyndon Johnson, the liberal architect of the "Great Society," trounced conservative i...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/reganomics-and-clintonian-investment/

Rusty Eder Rusty Eder , who teaches American history and government at West Nottingham Academy in Maryland, prompts students to think by asking seemingly goofy questions that lead in fascinati...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/rsqs-and-the-yellow-kid/

A reconstruction of a conversation from late January 2002, my classroom, 2nd period AP US History, student’s name altered for privacy:   “Ms. Bryan, after Reconstruction, where did the Bl...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-niagara-movement/

John Copeland and Lewis Leary were the last two men to join John Brown's small band gathering on a Kentucky farm in October 1859. Both free Blacks, they arrived just one day before Brown launched...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/was-john-brown-a-terrorist/

AN INTERVIEW WITH JASON JIVIDEN This month we are featuring our core document collection Populists and Progressives , edited by Jason Jividen. Dr. Jividen, who teaches politics at St. Vincent Co...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-progressive-challenge-to-the-founders-principles/

The Civil War had been raging for over two years when ABRAHAM LINCOLN BEGAN SPEAKING to a large crowd gathered at the Executive Mansion on July 7, 1863. Lincoln thanked them for calling on him a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/peculiar-recognitions-unexplainable-events-on-the-fourth-of-july/

“I know my students pretty well by the time they are seniors,” says Christina Cote. She teaches every history and government course they take between 7th and 12th grade. In Gardiner, Montana,...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teachers-christina-cote/

This June 25 marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry. Considered from three critical perspectiv...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/executive-order-8802-80-years-later/

On October 7, 1983, I boarded a flight at Chicago's O'Hare airport bound for Washington National. The flight was one leg of a journey that would end in Raleigh, NC, where I would marry my best fr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-war-among-women/

MAPP V. OHIO 367 U.S. 643 (1961)  Arrest Photo of Dollree Mapp. Cleveland Police Department, May 27, 1957. On May 23, 1957, police officers came to the home of Dollree Mapp based on informa...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/mapp-v-ohio-60-years-later/

The bear flag of Sonoma, Charles C. Pierce, (California, ca. 1923) C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries Special Collections, CHS-5695. On...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-bear-flag-republic-175th-anniversary/

We asked our faculty what books they are reading during the more relaxed months of summer. Their choices, below, show their wide-ranging interests in history, biography, and fiction. Perhaps one ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-reading-ideas/

In 1982, country music legend Merle Haggard performed for President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, and their guests at the Sierra Grande Ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains three hours nor...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/was-james-k-polk-a-great-president-considering-the-war-with-mexico/

Over the past three years, I have grown a dual enrollment West Virginia History class at my school from only eight students in its first year to almost 50 students enrolled this year.  One of my...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/west-virginia-achieves-statehood-june-20th-1863/

Patrick J. Garrity, 1955-2021 YOUR COEDITOR FOR THIS VOLUME, PATRICK J. GARRITY, PASSED AWAY LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER YOU FINISHED THE PROJECT. DR. GARRITY WAS A QUIET MAN WHO NEVER TAUGHT FOR T...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-west-and-the-promise-of-equal-opportunity/

On June 1, 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a war zone. Just before dawn, a loud whistle signaled a 10,000-strong army to swarm across railroad tracks and besiege the neighborhood of Greenwood, whose ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921/

When I was a small child in the late 1950s, my family moved from Greensboro, NC, to nearby Burlington. Though Burlington was our physical home, our hearts remained in Greensboro, where grandmothe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-a-vindication-of-human-dignity/

For the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the trip north to Oxford, Ohio, from Mississippi in June 1964 was a welcome, even life-saving, respite. Leading voter regist...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-freedom-summer-of-1964/

May 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, the first immigration law in the United States to establish an immigration quota system based on national origins. As the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/emergency-quota-act-of-1921-100-years-later/

175 YEARS AGO TODAY: CONGRESS DECLARES WAR ON MEXICO, INVOKING MANIFEST DESTINY AND DESTABILIZING THE HOUSE DIVIDED During the first half of the nineteenth century, the young American republic e...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/175th-anniversary-of-the-mexican-american-war/

Access the podcast here . Our final Documents in Detail episode for the 2020-21 school year, and our last in our 'Selections from the 50 Core Documents' series. In this episode we looked into F...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-frederick-douglass-oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln-2/

Early one school year, I asked my Advanced Placement U.S. History students what questions they hoped to have answered in the course. One thoughtful student said she wanted to understand how peopl...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-peculiar-institution-vs-the-word-fitly-spoken/

In the upper South, during the secession crisis of early 1861, the circumstances of Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee were similar in many respects. Majorities in each were both proslav...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/secession-in-arkansas-and-tennessee/

Ashland University's Masters in American History and Government has announced that its graduate programs will be ON CAMPUS in the summer of 2021. With apologies to Neil Armstrong, it is one smal...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/how-to-spend-a-mahg-weekend-visit-kent-state/

Americans seeking to understand how the founders developed our Constitutional framework of government have faced a problem deliberately created by the founders, who agreed on a rule of strict sec...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-story-of-the-constitutional-convention-as-james-madison-wanted-it-told/

In accepting the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, William Faulkner said: "problems of the human spirit" were on hold. Now, Faulkner said: "There is only the question: When will I be blown up?"...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/when-will-i-be-blown-up-balancing-security-and-civil-liberties-in-the-cold-war/

Do you have a favorite American history story? One that seems too good to be true - one that makes you exclaim - You just can't make this stuff up! Maybe it's a story that inspires you, fascinate...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/whats-your-favorite-american-history-story/

When people think of desegregation remedies, busing is likely the first thing to come to mind. Why? Because of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, which was decided fifty years ago today. The signi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-case-that-defined-desegregations-remedy/

Our Documents in Detail webinar for May 22nd, 2022 will focus on the Congressional "Revolt of 1910. " This document is drawn from our Congress Core Documents Collection, which you can download ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-congress/

Today is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death. Instead of a story about Lincoln, we're posting a story about a teacher who, each year in history class, tears the great president down to hum...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teaching-lincolns-decision-making/

High above the football stadium at Clemson University sits Fort Hill, the stately antebellum home of John C. Calhoun. On game days at Clemson, the marching band parades down the hill in front of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-and-debates-the-nullification-crisis/

Access the podcast here Our April episode of Documents in Detail, focused on Abraham Lincoln's Resolution Submitting the 13th Amendment to the States , and was attended by over 160 people. P...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-lincolns-resolution-submitting-the-13th-amendment-to-the-states/

Our final Documents in Detail webinar for the 2020-21 school year, and the last in our years-long series "Selections from the 50 Core Documents," this program will focus on Douglass' words and th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-frederick-douglass-oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/

Today we are pleased to feature a post by STACY MOSES, a teacher at SANDIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM. Moses completed her MASTER OF ARTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT degree in ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-civil-rights-act-of-1866-a-first-attempt-to-protect-the-rights-of-african-americans/

SLAVERY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES was recently released in Teaching American History’s Core Document Collection. We talked with the volume’s  editor, David Tucker, to learn what he hopes the col...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/slavery-and-its-consequencesa-new-core-document-collection/

Beginning on April 12th, 1861, Confederate guns around Charleston Harbor opened fire on Ft. Sumter, a small Union fort on an island in the harbor. Some 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered, a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/remembered-as-a-rebel-instead-of-a-scientist/

Access the podcast here . Our final 'Remember the Ladies' webinar for Spring 2021, focusing on the first female United States Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Appointed by President ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-sandra-day-oconnor/

President Woodrow Wilson, on April 2nd, 1917, spoke before a special joint session of Congress, and presented his argument for why the United States should abandon neutrality and opt for war with...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/wilsons-war-message/

Teachers attending Teaching American History programs find new colleagues—educators who may live far away, yet care just as deeply about educating young citizens. Such colleagues are huge asset...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/friendships-begun-in-mahg-lead-to-classroom-collaborations/

At approximately 4:40 pm on Saturday, March 25, 1911, the eighth floor of the Asch Building, a ten-story skyscraper on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Manhattan’s Greenwich ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/110-years-ago-today-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-a-disaster-that-inspired-lasting-reforms/

Like many youngsters interested in history, I read only books about presidents and generals as a boy. Harry Truman became my favorite president—in part because my grandmother claimed to be the ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/containment-and-the-truman-doctrine-documents-and-debates/

Join us on 21 April 2021 at 7pm ET for our discussion of the resolution to send the 13th Amendment to the states for consideration - one of the final legal and constitutional steps taken in orde...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-13th-amendment-resolution/

I have a confession to make. In my years teaching American history, I did an inadequate job teaching students about the notorious abolitionist John Brown, his activities in Kansas during the 1850...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/john-browns-legacy-from-kansas-to-the-classroom/

On March 22nd, 1945, elements of the United States' Third Army, under the command of Lieutenant General George S. Patton, crossed the Rhine River at Oppenheim, south of Mainz. Weeks ahead of his ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/historical-reads-pattons-third-army-crosses-the-rhine/

 Our April Saturday Webinar was about 20th Century American social and political activist and reformer Fannie Lou Hamer. This program took place on 10 April 2021 at 11am ET. PANELISTS: Dr....

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-fannie-lou-hamer/

What historical sites are on your bucket list? Fortunately, I have visited several of mine – Civil War sites from Chickamauga to Gettysburg and civil rights sites like the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-market-revolution-and-the-myth-of-free-labor/

The 2020–21 school year is the most difficult year of teaching in decades. Only the tumultuous years of desegregation compare. But teachers, parents, kids, and TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY have al...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/ratification-the-great-debate-state-by-state/

When Lincoln became president on March 4, 1861, white citizens of seven slaveholding states no longer considered themselves citizens of the United States of America. Unwilling to accept a Republi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/lincolns-first-inaugural-address-good-winners-and-bad-losers/

TAH has published almost 20 Core Documents collections over the last few years - all of which are available for free download as PDFs - each assembled by one of our graduate faculty members. We...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-podcast-core-documents-editors-roundtable/

Sarah Morgan Smith Today we feature a conversation with Sarah Morgan Smith. Smith is content editor of several volumes in TAH's Cored Documents series, including Documents and Debates in Ameri...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-voices-collection-documents-the-visionary-work-of-women/

 Our Documents in Detail webinar for  17 March 2021 focused on Abraham Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. Released on 1 January 1863, it legally freed all slaves in states and area...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-final-emancipation-proclamation/

Today we feature KEVIN BARNEY, a graduate of our MASTER OF ARTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT (MAHG) program , who teaches history and government at VETERANS TRIBUTE CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACA...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/at-a-career-academy-in-nevada-a-teacher-helps-second-generation-immigrants-discover-the-skills-and-political-convictions-citizens-need/

On July 16, 1945, the USS Indianapolis slipped away from its moorings on Mare Island, California, headed for the South Pacific. The United States military command so heavily guarded the ship's mi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-and-debates-the-decision-to-use-the-atomic-bomb/

February 21 will mark the 105th anniversary of the commencement of the Battle of Verdun, which began with a German offensive against the French fortress at Verdun and its surrounding fortificatio...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-battle-of-verdun-105-years-later/

 Our Documents in Detail webinar for 17 February 2021 focused on Confederate States of America Alexander Stephens' 1861 "Cornerstone" speech , in which he explained the real reasons for Sout...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-alexander-stephens-cornerstone-speech/

The First Amendment protects five distinct freedoms: religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition. When asked to list these freedoms, m...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-right-of-the-disenfranchised-to-petition/

Join us for another DiD webinar, on 17 MAR 2021 at 7pm ET, focusing on Abraham Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation , which went into effect on 1 JAN 1863.  All attendees of the live progra...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/41955-2/

Few of us enjoy particular attention on the day before our birthdays. Yet on the morning before Abraham Lincoln’s 52nd birthday—February 11, 1861—over a thousand of his neighbors gathered a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/springfield-bids-goodbye-to-president-elect-abraham-lincoln/

Rumors were swirling throughout New England. What were the delegates, gathered in secret, doing? Were spies and war opponents, known as "Blue Lights," aiding and abetting the enemy by flashing si...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-hartford-convention-secession-or-reform/

On February 4th and 16th, the Confederate forts Henry and Donelson, respectively, surrendered to Union forces under the command of Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, marking both clear, importan...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/forts-henry-and-donelson-us-grant-takes-the-stage/

 Join us on 6 March 2021 for our 'Remember the Ladies' webinar about Susan B. Anthony, leading suffragist and equal rights leader. Dr Chris Burkett, Ashland University Dr. Will Atto, Univers...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-susan-b-anthony/

A critical step precipitating the Civil War was taken 160 years ago this month. On February 4, 1861, delegates from six states of the deep South convened in Montgomery, Alabama to organize a prov...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-conventionand-the-convictionthat-organized-the-confederacy/

Why might teachers seeking a Masters’ degree in history and government take time to read literature? Why might those who teach literature study history? Two teachers in last summer’s “Immig...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/how-history-illuminates-literature-and-literature-deepens-history/

Most Americans employed in the private sector have experienced this moment. They looked at their paycheck stub, noted the listed deductions from their gross pay, and wondered, "What the heck is F...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-new-deal-social-security/

The American “western,” in the novels of Owen Wister, the stories of Zane Grey, and numerous films of the 1950s and early 1960s, enshrines an American folk understanding of the way political ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-ox-bow-incident-walter-van-tilburg-clarks-critique-of-the-western/

The Library of Congress has created a fascinating online resource guide: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: "I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR..." showcasing the development of the inauguration day ceremonies. ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-pageantry-of-power-planning-washingtons-first-inauguration/

Ida B. Wells was a journalist, educator, and early Civil Rights leader, making her mark in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Born into slavery (and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-ida-b-wells/

This day, in a sense, marks the anniversary of the beginning of American independence. While the American Revolution ended with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General George Washington at Yo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-independence-begins-on-favorable-terms-continental-congress-ratifies-the-treaty-of-paris/

Join us for another DiD webinar, on 17 FEB 2021 at 7pm ET, focusing on Alexander Stephens' "Cornerstone" Speech, in which he laid out the reasons for Southern secession and the role of slavery in...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-alexander-stephens-cornerstone-speech/

President George Washington and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton stepped into a carriage on Market Street on September 30, 1794, to begin a journey west of Philadelphia, then the new nation'...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-whiskey-rebellion-insurrection-in-the-early-republic/

Each January, as the holiday parties end and the decorations are stored away, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat healthier, and exercise more vigorously. If this is your plan for 2...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-healthy-bickering-brothers-of-battle-creek/

This year, 2021, marks major anniversaries of several milestone documents in American history. Some—like the “Long Telegram” that for decades framed American policymakers' understanding of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/milestone-documents-to-commemorate-in-2021/

 Join us for another DiD webinar, on 20 JAN 21 at 7pm ET, focusing on Andrew Jackson's message on his 1832 veto of the bank bill . The post Documents in Detail: Andrew Jackson’s Bank Vet...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-andrew-jacksons-bank-veto-message/

Although we remember the Pilgrims most commonly in November, it was actually in December of 1620 that they first set foot on the shore of Massachusetts. Although no actual stone is mentioned in a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/400-years-ago-this-week-the-pilgrims-land-at-plymouth-but-not-necessarily-on-a-rock/

The first ten amendments to the Constitution, known to us as the  BILL OF RIGHTS, were ratified on this day (December 15) in 1791. These amendments grew out of discussions that occurred during t...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/madison-and-jefferson-discuss-the-bill-of-rights/

Election night on November 7, 2000, was confusing, especially for the press.  The Associated Press and television networks first called Florida for Vice President Al Gore and then retracted that...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-timing-of-al-gores-concession-in-2000/

Writing this series of posts about TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY’S CORE DOCUMENT COLLECTION: DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT has caused me to ask myself, what is the most s...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/no-less-than-a-miracle/

On 27 January 1838, notable local lawyer Abraham Lincoln addressed the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. This social and civic organization was made up of prominent and would-be pro...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/timely-ideas-lincolns-lyceum-address-part-ii/

100 years ago today, on December 1, 1920 Crystal Eastman--a leader in the National Woman's Party--delivered a speech designed to ensure that suffrage was not the end of the woman's movement. The ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/today-in-history-crystal-eastman-points-the-way-towards-the-era/

The first in our "Remember the Ladies" webinar series for the Spring Semester of 2021, this one focuses on the Grimke Sisters, Sarah and Angelina, and their role in the Abolition Movement and oth...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-the-grimke-sisters/

As every school child knows, the American tradition of Thanksgiving as a day of prayer and feasting dates back to the Pilgrims. Yet the unbroken tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving on the 4th T...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/trumans-thankgiving-proclamation-liberty-knows-no-race-creed-or-class/

My favorite movie is Seabiscuit, the story of one broken horse and two broken men who, in the process of fixing one another, inspired a nation. I used the film in my APUSH classes as a metaphor f...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/on-horse-racing-bank-runs-and-economic-collapse-what-caused-the-great-depression/

Jefferson’s First Inaugural succeeded in its work of reconciliation, as the responses to it from key Federalist leaders show, because he found a way to assert the policies of the Republican pa...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/preserving-the-common-ground-of-american-citizenship-jeffersons-first-inaugural-part-2/

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY IS BEST KNOWN FOR ITS IMPRESSIVE DATABASE OF PRIMARY SOURCES, ALL OF WHICH ARE FREE TO TEACHERS AS DOWNLOADABLE PDFS. YOU MAY NOT BE AS FAMILIAR WITH OUR PROFESSIONAL DE...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-to-expect/

The story of the election of 1800 is often told, because for those who cherish self-government it is always worth retelling. The election was the first time in history that a transfer of power oc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/preserving-the-common-ground-of-american-citizenship-jeffersons-first-inaugural/

Teaching Native American history with documents presents several challenges to the historian: problems of perspective abound, as many of the most widely available documents are presented in the v...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/nara-releases-newly-digitized-documents-related-to-native-american-history/

TAH.org has partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to present two special webinars about the role of religion and the American church in reform movements. The second, taking place on 8 DE...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-reform-and-the-pulpit-the-role-of-the-church-in-the-post-ww2-civil-rights-movement/

  Our last DiD webinar for 2020, which aired live on 16 DEC 2020 at 7pm ET, and focused on Calhoun's 1831 speech . We were joined by: Dr. John Moser, Ashland University Dr. John Dinan, Wake ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-john-c-calhouns-fort-hill-address/

In 2018, my wife and I attended a One Day University event in Charlotte, NC, a program that brings talented lecturers to cities around the country for talks on a wide variety of topics. The day w...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/equality-for-whomrevolutionary-considerations-of-citizenship-and-self-government/

 TAH.org has partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to present two special webinars about the role of religion and the American church in reform movements. The first, taking place on...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-reform-and-the-pulpit-abolition-and-the-american-church/

Many predicted a complicated national election in 2020, in large part due to the circumstances of the pandemic. An unprecedented number of voters cast absentee votes—according to the Washington...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/electing-the-us-president-what-happens-between-election-day-and-the-final-announcement-of-the-results/

The post Election Day 2020 appeared first on Teaching American History .

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Youtube archive coming soon The was the final episode in our "Enduring American Questions" webinar series, for Fall 2020, and focused on the New Deal, and various arguments on its effectiveness...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-did-the-new-deal-end-the-great-depression/

PAM CUMMINGS, 2018 MADISON FELLOW FOR ARKANSAS and a student in the MASTER OF ARTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAM , chooses her elective courses “strategically” to deepen her unde...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/understanding-the-immigrant-experience-through-history-and-literature/

Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government . On September 6, 1901, President Wi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/did-american-imperialism-threaten-american-values/

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast featuring our teacher partners—dedicated professionals, working in a range of teaching situations throughout the country, who are re-en...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/in-their-words-interviews-with-teachers-on-the-power-of-primary-documents/

 Our Documents in Detail episode for Wednesday 18 November 2020 will focus on two short pieces from Thomas Jefferson: his letters to John Holmes and Henry Lee . Our panel will consist of Dr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-thomas-jeffersons-letters-to-john-holmes-and-henry-lee/

Our Core Document Collection on the role of women in American religion includes an essay by acclaimed fiction writer and speaker Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964). O'Connor has a reputation as a ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/flannery-oconnors-vision-of-the-modern-south/

During this pandemic year, far more voters than ever before are expected to use mail-in ballots. Some are questioning whether our existing procedures for computing election results can handle the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/2020s-complicated-election-process/

Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History's two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. In July of 1774, as colonial resistan...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/1774-the-year-between-resistance-and-rebellion/

Parties, political power and partisans, oh my! As Americans look ahead to Election Day 2020, we at TAH invite you to look back to some key moments in the development of modern political parties u...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/sneak-peak-at-our-new-core-document-collections-congress-political-parties/

On October 9, 1635, Roger Williams was exiled from the colony of Massachusetts--banished for having “broached and divulged diverse new and dangerous opinions, against the authority of magistrat...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/remembering-roger-williams/

  This episode in our "Enduring American Questions" Saturday Webinar series will air live on 7 NOVEMBER 2020, FROM 11AM-12:15 EST. Our panelists will discuss the fundamental differences in the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-how-did-the-progressives-differ-from-the-founders/

Join us for our October episode of Documents in Detail , during which we'll discuss James Madison's 1792 essay, "Property ." As usual, our moderator will be Dr. John Moser, of Ashland University,...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-james-madisons-property/

Miles Mathews teaches 11th grade US history at the John Adams Academy (JAA), a public charter school in Roseville, California. The school offers a “classical leadership education” centered a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/for-classical-leadership-education-tah-document-collections-ground-history-study/

TAH is happy to announce the upcoming launch of a new podcast, In Their Words, which will be a twice-monthly program consisting of interviews with teachers in the TAH network. In each episode we'...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/new-tah-podcast-in-their-words/

Professor Joseph Postell has edited a new volume in our Core Document Collection, Congress (now available for pre-order ). The collection documents  dramatic changes in Congress’ role and fun...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-four-eras-of-congress-evolutionand-devolution/

On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States agreed on a set of twelve amendments to be submitted to the states for ratification. These proposed amendments grew out of a debate ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/september-25-1789-congress-proposes-a-bill-of-rights/

Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History's two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. In 1994, CBS broadcast the film AGAIN...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-progressive-era-eugenics/

SEPTEMBER 17—CONSTITUTION DAY—commemorates the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when the delegates signed the document they had crafted during 88 days of intense discussion...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/gordon-lloyd-on-james-madisons-record-of-the-constitutional-convention/

On 27 January 1838, notable local lawyer Abraham Lincoln addressed the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. This social and civic organization was made up of prominent and would-be promin...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/timely-ideas-abraham-lincolns-lyceum-address/

From September 11 – 28, 1893, the city of Chicago hosted what is now recognized as the first formal interfaith gathering in America. Known as the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the id...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/first-parliament-of-the-worlds-religions/

Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History's two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government Almost exactly 230 years ago—on Augu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/experimenting-with-freedom-of-conscience/

This weekend, Americans will enjoy an extra day off as the nation observes Labor Day. Now a national holiday, the observance of a day in honor of the contributions of American workers began at th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documenting-labor-in-american-history/

On 23 SEP 20 we looked at James Madison's Speech on the Amendments to the Constitution , from 8 June 1789, wherein the "Father of the Constitution" adds, some scholars would argue, "Father of the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-madisons-speech-on-the-amendments-to-the-constitution/

As the 2020 school year begins in Florida, a months-long pandemic continues, putting new demands on teachers. Jennifer Jolley has spent the summer rethinking her lesson plans so as to meet the ch...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teacher-of-the-year-takes-on-new-challenge-the-hybrid-synchronous-classroom/

Join teachers from across the country on Saturday, 3 October 2020 for our discussion of the true causes of the Civil War - was it really all about slavery, or something else? Our scholars will di...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-did-slavery-cause-the-civil-war/

At TAH, we know plans for the return to school this fall remain in flux in many districts—and that even though in many cases classroom instruction won’t look ‘like normal,’ you and your c...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tips-for-teaching-online-during-the-pandemic/

Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. July 4, 1894 was not a peaceful Ind...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/big-trouble-in-a-company-town-the-pullman-strike/

TAH.org's last of a three-episode series on pivotal presidential elections, tonight's focus was Ronald Reagan and the Election of 1980. Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor Political Science at Ashland ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-what-can-we-learn-from-the-election-of-1980/

On 18 August 1920 Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, the text of which reads: > THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE > ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/votes-for-woman-the-19th-amendment/

Why are both these documents essential to establishing and, hopefully, contributing to the maintenance of the American constitutional system of government? How do they work with one another, and ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-why-are-both-the-constitution-and-bill-of-rights-necessary/

With attention now turning to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, we offer today an interview with the editor of a new volume in our Core Document Collection, POLITICAL PARTIES. A...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/cdc-politicalparties/

Our first Saturday Webinar for the 20-21 school year, and also the first in our Fall series, Enduring American Questions . In this 75-minute episode, we will explore the question of whether the A...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-was-the-american-revolution-really-a-revolution/

If you missed our partner webinar with the Missouri Humanities Council, on 11 August 2020, you can watch the archive here, and access the readings set aside for this program.P Subscribe to our ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-what-can-we-learn-from-the-election-of-1860/

Join us for the first Documents in Detail webinar of the 20-21 school year, and also the first in our last year of 'Selections from the 50 Core Documents ' as a series focus. In this episode we w...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-brutus-ii/

Today's post is the latest in a series of articles highlighting the print and audio version of the twenty-nine chapters in our CORE DOCUMENTS COLLECTION: DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/chapter-3-documents-and-debates-labor-servitude-and-slavery/

Frederick Douglass, in one of his last speeches , drew attention to a little-known book published in 1680, The Negroes’ and Indians’ Advocate, Suing for Their Admission Into the Church . Writ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-starting-point-of-the-abolitionist-movement-morgan-godwins-plea-to-evangelize-slaves/

The first in our three-episode series of webinars about Presidential Elections and Campaigns, this episode focused on the tumultuous election of 1800, wherein John Adams was eventually defeated b...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-what-can-we-learn-from-the-election-of-1800/

At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America's story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual.  Without memory, an indivi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teacher-partners-lindsay-peterson/

We’ve decided to do something different with our Saturday Webinars for this school year, splitting the year into two 5-episode seasons, each on a different theme. The programs will still be 75 ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/fall-saturday-webinars-open-for-registration/

On May 29, 1868, General Ulysses S Grant accepted the Republican nomination for president in a short letter to Joseph R Hawley, the party's convention president. Grant concluded his brief note to...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/let-us-have-peace-reconstructing-the-west-grants-peace-policy/

The tributes to Congressman John Lewis have flooded the airwaves and filled the newspapers since his death on July 17 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis was a legend, an icon of the Civil Rights Movem...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-john-lewis-taught-me-about-forgiveness/

Although Union and Confederate forces had traded shots in some small skirmishes after Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in March and engaged in a more serious fight over Ft. Sumter in April 1861, it...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/committed-to-war-the-first-battle-of-bull-run/

Join citizens and teachers from across Missouri as the Missouri Humanities Council and TeachingAmericanHistory.org present this free three-part webinar series. Each episode will focus on a diffe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-series-presidents-elections-and-campaigns-what-can-we-learn-from-history/

Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, New York, July 19th and 20th, . Proceedings and Declaration of Sentiments. John Dick at the North Star Office, Rochester, New York,...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/remembering-seneca-falls/

Almost every American can close their eyes and picture the scene. A small ship arrives off the coast of North America. Hearty pilgrims, armed with a covenant to follow all "good and just laws," s...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/under-construction-merchants-and-morality-in-colonial-massachusetts/

ANGUS MCDOUGALL, a teacher from Hiram, Ohio, enrolled in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program for many of the same reasons other teachers do. He appreciated its sc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/engaging-students-in-americas-past-and-future/

Among speeches denouncing slavery, perhaps the most effective ever delivered is Frederick Douglass’s “WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?” Douglass proposed to answer this charged que...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/truths-held-in-tension-frederick-douglass-what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Less than a week before he left office, President Eisenhower delivered his final speech to the American public, a speech that would come to be known as his Farewell Address. In the most famous po...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/eisenhower-and-the-origins-of-the-military-industrial-complex/

On July 4, 2020, The American Revolution— the latest volume in Ashbrook’s Core Document Collections—will be released. Edited by ROBERT MCDONALD , Professor of History at the United States M...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/sneak-peek-the-american-revolution-core-documents/

South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union when a convention in Charleston approved an Ordinance of Secession in December of 1860. Few Americans, during that tumultuous secess...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-and-debates-reconstructing-the-south/

The hour was late when Frederick Douglass rose to speak to more than fifty African-American leaders who had gathered in Washington, DC, to honor him and celebrate emancipation. The elaborate banq...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/until-this-day-juneteenth-and-the-end-of-slavery-in-the-united-states/

At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America's story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual.  Without memory, an indivi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teacher-partners-amy-parker/

On June 13th, 1775, American troops around Boston learned of a British plan to occupy the hills on the Charlestown peninsula, north of the city, providing them with a commanding view of the area ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-perspective-on-the-battle-of-bunker-hill/

Frequent visitors to Teaching American History.org  tell us we are their go-to site for primary sources. We love hearing that. But we are never satisfied!  We are always looking for more eff...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-and-debates-chapter-1-early-contact/

On July 4, 2020, the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a new volume in Ashbrook’s Core Document Collections will appear: The American Revolution . ROBERT MCDONALD, Professor...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-american-revolution-professor-robert-mcdonalds-new-core-document-collection/

My high school American history students loved class debates. Their parents told me it was because they liked to argue! The students especially enjoyed reenacting the Lend-Lease debate of January...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/presenting-us-history-in-the-words-of-those-who-argued-it/

Ashbrook and TeachingAmericanHistory presented  another special webinar, this time about Operation OVERLORD, more widely known as D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, and the liberation of Europe th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-d-day-76-years/

This year’s high school seniors understandably feel cheated by the cancellation of graduation ceremonies and other rites of passage due to the coronavirus. Yet as I listen sympathetically, I fi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/on-the-65th-anniversary-of-brown-v-board-of-education-ii-implementing-a-sweeping-change/

When Rebecca McGinnis chose the recurrent cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century as the focus of her Master’s thesis, she saw it as way to understand the history of her hometown—Circlevi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/39576-2/

On May 20, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. This piece of legislation had been part of the Republican Party's platform in 1860: supporters of the party were said to favor ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/homestead-act/

Did you know that Teaching American History's home institution, the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, offers programs for high school students? If you know a rising junior or senior who love...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/introduce-your-students-to-the-tah-experience-through-our-summer-academies/

Although May and June are often seen as  the "end" of the school year in modern America, June of 1787 marked the beginning of the brief existence of the Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia. The...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/female-education-in-the-early-republic/

While the seventeenth century is in the news again this week thanks to the 1619 project, we thought we would draw attention to the efforts of some early American Quakers to outlaw slaveholding am...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/1688-the-germantown-quakers-protest-slavery/

Teachers enroll in our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program to gain the content knowledge they need to be more effective. They continue for the intellectual adventure...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/how-mahg-made-me-a-better-teacher-even-during-a-pandemic/

8 May 1945 was declared "Victory in Europe Day," after the remaining leaders of Nazi Germany signed documents accepting their unconditional surrender on 7 May. American and British forces had cro...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-75th-anniversary-of-ve-day/

“Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower burning problems of medicine and beyond – our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/federalism-and-pandemics-a-national-teachable-moment/

Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center interviewed Dr. Jennifer Keene of Chapman University on 20 May 2020, focusi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-heroes-of-american-business/

Join Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center on 6 May 2020 at 1pm ET for this free webinar, focusing on, among other...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-heroes-of-the-american-founding/

Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center interviewed Dr. Eric Pullin of Carthage College on 27 May 2020, focusing on...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-heroes-of-american-medicine/

Join Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center on 13 May 2020 at 1pm ET for this free webinar, focusing on ULYSSES S. ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-american-war-heroes/

Building on the success of our Insights from History series of special daytime webinars, we are happy to present another special series, which will debut on 6 May. All four episodes in this serie...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-heroes-special-webinar-series/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/ralph-ellison/

Examine the role of religion and religious activity during times of crisis through a series of historical case studies. Join Dr. Jeff Sikkenga of Ashland University and Executive Director of the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/insights-from-history-the-power-of-the-pulpit-in-times-of-crisis-from-the-american-revolution-to-the-coronavirus/

On February 21st, 1848 Representative John Quincy Adams rose on the House floor to vote no on a resolution designed to celebrate the United States’ victory in the recent war with Mexico. Adams ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/beyond-the-amistad-the-antislavery-legislative-career-of-john-quincy-adams/

We have known and appreciated BRIANNE WOLF since, shortly after earning her PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she came to teach political economy at Ashland University. Now she tea...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/protecting-the-health-of-the-body-and-of-the-body-politic-an-interview-with-political-economist-brianne-wolf/

The fifth episode in our "Insights from History" webinar series, hosted by Dr. Jeff Sikkenga of Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center, will feature Dr. Lauren Hall of...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/insights-from-history-the-american-family-in-times-of-crisis-education-health-care-and-the-trade-offs-of-coming-home/

The story is one of the most familiar in American history. Though shrouded in myth, the details are well-known. In the overnight hours of April 18-19, 1775, British regulars staggered from their ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/245th-anniversary-of-lexington-and-concord/

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 brought an emotional climax to the painful and protracted national conflict of the Civil War. At first, howeve...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/remembering-lincoln-resources-to-teach-the-assassination/

As the current Coronavirus situation has continued, we are now faced with growing questions about our civil liberties. We are thinking again about the actions the government can legitimately take...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/insights-from-history-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-civil-liberties-in-time-of-emergency/

Herbert Hoover's Speech on the New Deal (1932) was the focus of the 13 May 2020 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Joseph Postell , University of Colorado ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-herbert-hoovers-speech-on-the-new-deal/

Speeches, orations, and addresses hold a special and central place in American political culture, and we’ve studied and discussed some of the best. In keeping with the limits of a Top 10, we ha...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/great-speeches-webinars/

Join Dr. Jeff Sikkenga , Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center, and Dr. Steven Hayward as they discuss the economic aspects of nation...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/insights-from-history-bad-medicine-the-effects-of-economic-emergencies-on-liberty-and-democracy/

How are teachers we know around the country dealing with campus closures and the move to distanced learning? They are working harder than ever to learn a new approach, gamely adapting to the chal...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teaching-online-while-supporting-distant-students/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 2 May 2020, exploring the life, letters, and legacy of the great Ralph Ellison. READINGS In a Strange Country , Ralph Ellison, 1944 Prologue to Invisible Man ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-ralph-ellison/

Born of ideas and ideals, the American system of government was, and still is, unique in the world for a variety of reasons. This collection of content-rich resources will help you and your stud...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/webinars-on-political-principles-and-problems/

On June 5th, 1944, just one day before D-day’s Normandy landings, General Eisenhower composed a short letter to be read to all of the soldiers and sailors who would take part in the largest am...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/eisenhower-in-a-time-of-crisis/

History can give us real insight into the problems that face America. In this webinar, we explored several good and bad examples of presidents in times of crisis, hoping to see the qualities and ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/insights-from-history-presidential-leadership-in-times-of-crisis/

To truly understand the Civil Rights Movement in America, you have to also study the difficult and tumultuous history of slavery and constitutionalism in the nineteenth century. The Emancipation ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/civil-rights-webinars/

We have gathered copies of the document packets and discussion questions for several of our most popular seminar topics related to American history and government below. Each one consists of thre...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/classroom-resources-primary-source-readers-and-discussion-questions/

Now, perhaps more than ever, we see that the global community is surprisingly small. Americans have always looked beyond their own borders, participating in a global network of trade, diplomacy, ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/foreign-affairs-webinars/

Julia Fuette, 2012 graduate of our MAHG program, took some time to talk with Jeremy Gypton, Teacher Programs Manager, about her experience with and perspectives on teaching online. Formerly a tra...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teacher-interview-transitioning-to-different-forms-of-online-teaching-and-learning/

When the school officials around the country began responding to COVID-19 concerns by proposing extended spring breaks and school suspensions, ANGELA HAMMER received queries from friends.  Hamme...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/planning-online-lessons-for-students-working-from-home-a-veteran-teachers-advice/

TAH provided a special week-day webinar on a timely topic for teachers of history and government: the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Beginning during the last months of World War 1, a new strain of the H1N1 ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-webinar-the-flu-epidemic-of-1918-lessons-from-history/

Calvin Coolidge's Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was the focus of the 22 APR 2020 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Gre...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-calvin-coolidges-speech-on-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/

Are you looking for content-rich resources to share with your students in “suddenly-online” courses? Did you know Teaching American History has over seven years of archived webinars ?  Our...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/top-10-archived-webinars/

Professor John Moser is well known in the MAHG program for using carefully designed role-playing games to teach historical events and periods. Moser has co-authored a number of gamebooks in the R...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/role-playing-the-progressives-of-1912-john-mosers-new-reacting-to-the-past-game/

Live show aired at at 11am, Saturday, 4 APR 2020, exploring the truth and legend of Douglas MacArthur, perhaps America's most consequential 20th Century military leader. READINGS "The Noblest D...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-douglas-macarthur/

A poem that went on to be adopted as the “black national anthem” – “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” – was first publicly performed 120 years ago, at a community event celebrating Lincoln...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/120-years-of-lift-evry-voice-and-sing/

Professor Ken Masugi has edited a new core document collection, the first in a planned series on the Supreme Court. Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases presents Supreme Court jurisprudence on the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-supreme-court-debates-religious-freedom-a-conversation-with-ken-masugi/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/jane-addams/

The Progressive Party Platform of 1912 was the focus of the 25 MAR 2020 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Chris Burkett , Ashland University David Alvis , ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-progressive-party-platform-of-1912/

“We are a nation of immigrants,” says SEAN BRENNAN, who teaches US government at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School in Broadview Heights, Ohio. “Most of our families came here legall...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/inspired-by-george-washington-teacher-brings-naturalization-ceremony-to-his-high-school/

At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America's story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual.  Without memory, an indivi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teacher-partners-katie-klaus/

This Saturday, February 15, 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of woman's rights advocate Susan B Anthony's birth. Anthony is best known for promoting women's rights and starting up the women's suf...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/happy-200th-susan-b-anthony/

“The vision of the founding fathers—and of all the other extraordinary people who carried our republic forward after it was founded—will come to nothing if our students do not see the value...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/talking-across-generations-about-history/

Twenty-five teachers from across the Phoenix area joined Dr. David Hadley of Ashland University on 30 January to discuss the development of, decision to use, and the immediate results of the Atom...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/dropping-the-atomic-bombs-a-great-debate-of-history/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 7 MAR 2020, exploring the life, ideas, and impact of Jane Addams. READINGS Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration , Jane Addams, 1908 "On The Shame of the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-jane-addams/

DID YOU KNOW? TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY, A PROJECT OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY, OFFERS WEEKLONG SUMMER GRADUATE COURSES THAT COMBINE QUALITY INSTRUCTION WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO B...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/surviving-and-thriving-in-the-summer-residential-program-of-mahg/

History teachers rarely focus on the losers of presidential elections. Yet two men stand out as notable exceptions; Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan. Both men were nominated for the presiden...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/loser-wins-william-jennings-bryan-and-the-legacy-of-populism/

In her essay “Personal Reactions In Time of War ,” Jane Addams describes her experience as an opponent of World War I during a time of growing pro-war sentiment in the US, fed by government a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/lonely-dissenter-jane-addams-reflects-on-her-peace-making-efforts-during-world-war-i/

When Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury on January 17, 1950, it was, in one sense, the end of a legal drama that began when Whittaker Chambers had named him as a Soviet spy on August 3, 1948. In...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-long-controversy-over-alger-hiss/

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the focus of the 19 FEB 2020 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS Jason Stevens , Ashland University Jeff Sikkenga , Ashland University Peter Myers , University...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-plessy-v-ferguson/

In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (which became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920), from August 2019 �...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-rights-roles-the-moral-reformers/

One hundred years ago this month, forty-one nations became founding members of the League of Nations. The United States was not among them, even though U.S. president Woodrow Wilson was the Leagu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-league-of-nations-begins-the-united-states-abstaining/

I am interested in a variety of topics and eras in history, although I am drawn mostly to memoirs and analytical military history. Perhaps that seems like a contradiction, given that one tends to...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/historical-reads-the-battle-of-midway/

IN 2020, TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WILL OFFER TWENTY FREE MULTI-DAY COLLOQUIA FOR SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS. These residential programs allow teachers of American history and government to explor...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-weekend-that-changed-everything/

The live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 1 FEB 2020, exploring the person and politics of William Jennings Bryan. READINGS Cross of Gold , 9 July 1896, William Jennings Bryan "Imperialism" Speech...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-william-jennings-bryan/

The Methodist Church in America dates its independence to a “Christmas Conference” held 235 years ago in Baltimore, Maryland. This conference was organized and led by Francis Asbury and Thoma...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-methodist-church-in-america-asserts-its-independence-the-christmas-conference-of-1784/

Derek Collins discovered his deeper vocation after beginning his job at Latta Public School near Ada, Oklahoma. Originally, he’d chosen to teach social studies so that he could coach. After pu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/seminar-discussions-inspire-a-teacher-to-reevaluate-the-founding/

Abraham Lincoln's short, powerful Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861) was the focus of the 22 JAN 2020 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS Jason Stevens, Ashland University Lucas ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-abraham-lincolns-fragment-on-the-constitution-and-union/

  Riding something of a wave of optimism after the mixed victory at Antietam, Union forces again headed into Northern Virginia and Richmond, the Confederate capital. Under the command of newly...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/debacle-at-fredericksburg-december-1862/

AMERICAN MINDS WEBINAR Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 11 JAN 2020, exploring the ideas, character, and meaning of Frederick Douglass. READINGS What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? , Fr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-frederick-douglass/

In “The Problem of the South” (July 11, 1900), Booker T. Washington uses a folksy anecdote about a Christmas “miracle” to illustrate his point about the importance of bringing prudence, h...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/booker-t-washingtons-christmas-story/

Bill of Rights Day is celebrated on December 15, the anniversary of the day in 1791 that the first ten amendments to the Constitution, having been ratified by eleven of the then 14 states, went ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-contested-understanding-of-religious-liberty-in-supreme-court-jurisprudence-an-interview-with-ken-masugi/

As you look ahead to planning your lessons in 2020, we want to draw your attention to some of the tools and materials, designed for teachers by teachers, in the Resources section of our website....

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/whats-new-at-teaching-american-history-resources/

December 7th, 1941, marked the forced entry of the United States into World War II. Although the war in Europe had been going on since September 1939, and in East Asia from, arguably, since the J...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-in-two-documents/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/harriet-beecher-stowe/

In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (which became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920), from August 2019 �...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-rights-roles-the-abolitionists/

TAH offers much more than a top-notch collection of primary documents --TAH helps teachers across the country continue their education and take part in a conversation about America. Visit the P...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/whats-new-at-teaching-american-history-programs/

Due to a technical failure, we were unable to record a significant part of the program, and that which we did preserve had very poor audio quality. In keeping with our desire to provide good prog...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-john-c-calhouns-speech-on-the-oregon-bill/

On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The inspiring prose of Linco...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/why-should-we-teach-lincolns-gettysburg-address/

Did you know that as part of the Teaching American History community, you’re just a few clicks away from our collection of over 2500 historical documents and your own personalized dashboard? Th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/whats-new-at-teaching-american-history-documents/

November 9 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This momentous event signaled the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of a “Cold War” struggle that...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/stunning-end-to-cold-war-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/

Teaching American History's latest Core Documents Collection, Causes of the Civil War explains the political, constitutional, moral, social, and economic causes of the Civil War. As the nation ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-documents-collection-causes-of-the-civil-war/

AMERICAN MINDS WEBINAR Our Saturday Webinar for 7 DEC 2019, explored the life, ideas, letters, and impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe. READINGS Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin , November 1852 Stowe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-harriet-beecher-stowe/

TODAY IS ELECTION DAY -- REMIND YOUR STUDENTS THAT VOTING IS NOT ONLY A RIGHT BUT A PRIVILEGE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT AND GET OUT THE VOTE! See a map with the three states holding elections for gov...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/election-day-2019/

We hope you have been enjoying the new Teaching American History website. We have the most comprehensive library of primary documents of American history you’ll find online. We also offer other...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/whats-new-at-teaching-american-history/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/henry-clay-the-great-compromiser/

When the Statue of Liberty was officially dedicated on October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland made a short speech thanking the French for their gift. Concluding, he underlined the intent of...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/emma-lazarus-poet-of-exiles/

Most professional development takes place inside schools and school district offices, and good teachers glean useful pedagogical ideas from these programs. Rarely do teachers enjoy an off-site pr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-valley-forge-week-end-wrap-up/

PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Eric Sands , Berry College Jason Stevens , Ashland University iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS Documents in Detail: The Webster-Hayne D...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-webster-hayne/

In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (which became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920), from August 2019 �...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-rights-roles-the-early-republic/

With current news focusing on the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, we asked JEREMY D. BAILEY , Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston, to explain the presiden...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/how-the-framers-understood-impeachment-and-how-party-politics-altered-their-intent/

On 20 October 1944, American forces under General Douglas MacArthur landed in the Philippines, establishing an organized presence there for the first time since Spring 1942. Japan's invasion of t...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/macarthurs-return-to-the-philippines/

Professor Stephen F. Knott In his new study of the presidency, STEPHEN F. KNOTT, Thomas and Mabel Guy Professor in Teaching American History’s Master of Arts in American History and Governme...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/does-the-presidency-function-as-the-founders-intended/

The first Monday in October traditionally opens the Supreme Court’s yearly term. To mark this first week of oral arguments at the court, we feature today a story about two teachers who spent a ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/as-the-scotus-term-begins-teaching-what-free-speech-means/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/alexander-hamilton-founding-father-of-the-commercial-republic/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 2 NOV 2019, with a focus on Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser." READINGS Speech on the Tariff, Henry Clay , 25 February 1832 Speech on President Jackson's Ve...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-henry-clay/

Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801) was the focus of the 23 OCT 2019 Documents in Detail webinar. PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Rob McDonald , United States Military ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-thomas-jeffersons-first-inaugural-address/

Professor Gordon Lloyd, Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, author of TAH's four Exhibits on American History , and frequent instructor in our MAHG program and at teacher Seminars , conducted ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/constitution-day-lecture-from-professor-gordon-lloyd/

Father Junípero Serra (1713–1784) founded the first Catholic “mission” in what is now present-day California 250 years ago, in July of 1769. To Serra, the enterprise was indeed a mission ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/junipero-serra-gaspar-de-portola-and-the-spanish-conquest-of-california/

In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (which became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920), from August 2019 �...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-rights-roles-american-revolution/

We rely on teachers of American history, government and civics to do the most critical work in America: helping the next generation understand their rights and responsibilities as self-governing ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/for-constitution-day-teaching-the-blessings-of-liberty/

In anticipation of Constitution Day (September 17), TAH invites you to take a look through our Constitutional Convention Online Exhibit , one of four Online Exhibits on the American Founding. Thi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-constitutional-convention-online-exhibit-a-great-resource-for-teachers-and-students/

At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America's story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual.  Without memory, an indivi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teacher-partners-melanie-stuthard/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 5 OCT 2019, exploring the compelling, controversial, and inspired Revolutionary and American leader, Alexander Hamilton.   READINGS The Farmer Refuted , Al...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-alexander-hamilton/

This is the first in a series of posts we’re calling Forgotten Stories in American History. It will  point out events, people, ideas and places from our history that you may not know about, st...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/forgotten-stories-in-american-history-the-battle-of-peleliu/

At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America's story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual.  Without memory, an indivi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-our-teacher-partners-alan-vitale/

A century ago, in the wake of a rapid demobilization of soldiers returning from World War I, ten major race riots occurred in American cities, along with other acts of collective violence targete...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/african-americans-resist-the-racial-violence-of-1919-an-interview-with-david-krugler/

Federalist 1 (1787) was the focus of the 25 SEP 2019 Documents in Detail webinar.   PANELISTS John Moser , Ashland University Jeremy Bailey , University of Houston John Dinan , Wake Forest ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-federalist-1/

In a post earlier this week, we marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies. Today, we want to highlight some of the documents in our col...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-related-to-labor-servitude-and-slavery-in-early-america/

In late August 1619, John Rolfe tells us that the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. These Africans had been captured from present-day Angola by Portuguese slave...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/400th-anniversary-of-landing-of-african-slaves-at-jamestown/

In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (which became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920), from August 2019 �...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/womens-rights-roles-colonial-america/

The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is AMERICAN MINDS. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contribu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/meet-jonathan-edwards/

On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the first atomic bomb used in war on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another B-29, Bockscar (...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-atomic-bombs-in-the-context-of-world-war-ii/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 7 SEP 2019, exploring Franklin the entrepreneur, thinker, scientist, political leader, and perhaps 'original American.' READINGS An Appeal for the Hospital ,...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-benjamin-franklin/

Continuing our blog series on the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, last week we published an account of the integration process in the small Southern town of Belmont, North Caroli...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/implementing-brown-v-board-of-education-one-southern-towns-story-part-ii/

Editor’s Note: Earlier this spring as the TAH editorial team was preparing for our essay commemorating the 65th anniversary of the end of school segregation in the first Brown v. Board of Educ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/implementing-brown-v-board-of-education-one-southern-towns-story-part-1/

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) Documents in Detail webinar aired live on 28 AUG 2019. PANELISTS John Moser, Ashland University Todd Estes , Oakland University Sarah Morgan S...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-virginia-statute-for-religious-freedom/

  As with all TAH programs, our WEBINAR SERIES are designed to help classroom teachers improve their knowledge of American history, government, and civics through the reflective discussion of...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-webinars-how-they-are-different-and-why-you-should-register/

As teachers, we know students become more interested in historical events if you can establish a local connection. Here is a story I used with my South Carolina students to create such a link to ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/foreshadowing-brown-how-a-south-carolina-case-influence-the-supreme-courts-school-desegregation-ruling/

On 20 July 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, while their fellow Apollo 11 crew member, Michael Collins, orbited above. People a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-moon-landing-resources-for-the-50th-anniversary/

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 17 AUG 2019, exploring the famed revivalist preacher and theologian of the Colonial Era.   READINGS A Divine and Supernatural Light , Jonathan Edwards, 173...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-jonathan-edwards/

Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus in Ashland to enjoy week-long seminars on focused topics in American history and g...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-were-talking-about-a-mahg-reading-roundup-4/

While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America’s religious practitioners, their roles in shaping the practice as well as the doctrines of American religious groups ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-documents-collection-womens-voices-in-religion-in-american-history-and-politics/

Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus in Ashland to enjoy week-long seminars on focused topics in American history and g...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-were-talking-about-a-mahg-reading-roundup-3/

For most teachers and students of American history the decision seems like the no-brainer of all time. Napoleon of France was offering to sell the United States not just the city of New Orleans b...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/protesting-the-louisiana-purchase/

Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus in Ashland to enjoy week-long seminars on focused topics in American history and g...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-were-talking-about-a-mahg-reading-roundup-2/

Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus in Ashland to enjoy week-long seminars on focused topics in American history and g...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/what-were-talking-about-a-mahg-reading-roundup/

Unsure of what to read this summer? The TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY staff have some recommendations. Whether you are hoping to relax with historical fiction or become immersed in a fascinating biog...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-reading-recommendations-from-our-staff/

This summer, SUZANNE HUNTER BROWN will join historian JENNIFER KEENE (CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY) to lead a course on THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S WORLD WARS. Using primary histori...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/adding-the-lens-of-literature-to-the-testimony-of-primary-documents/

General Dwight Eisenhower was the most powerful man in the world in early June, 1944, and then a moment later, he was largely powerless. The invasion force of which he was supreme commander would...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/d-day-what-if-it-had-failed/

RELIGIOUS RHETORIC AT THE FRONT Among other equipment for battle on D-Day , the invading troops brought printed copies of Dwight David Eisenhower’s stirring yet succinct “Message to the Alli...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/religion-and-rhetoric-in-times-of-war-the-75th-anniversary-of-d-day/

SATURDAY WEBINARS: AMERICAN MINDS - REGISTER HERE During the 2019-20 school year we will revisit a general theme – the individual – we’ve studied in past series, like American Presidents...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/2019-2020-webinars-registration-is-open/

Did you know that the origins of this weekend's holiday honoring America's servicemen and women arose in response to the divisions left by the Civil War? On Religion In America , Ellen Tucker ex...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/did-you-know-memorial-day-began-as-a-way-to-reunify-the-country-after-the-civil-war/

Join TAH.org and the USS Midway Museum Institute for Teachers for our Seminar series on ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN FREEDOM, beginning in the Fall semester of 2019. We will host four Seminar...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/san-diego-seminars/

The second of TAH.org's Great American Debates webinar series took place on Saturday, 8 September. Our episode focused on the Federalist-Antifederalist Debates that took place most obvious...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-federalists-vs-antifederalists/

Today marks the 65th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision mandating racial desegregation in public schools. Issued on May 17, 1954, the first of two decisions in Brown v. Board of Edu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-great-day-for-america-and-its-court-brown-v-board-of-education-recognizes-segregation-as-inherently-unequal/

In this final episode of the 2018-19 Documents in Detail year, we discuss President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" speech - its reception in 1964, and its legacy for American social policy and ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-design-lbjs-great-society/

The final episode in the 2018-19 Great American Debates webinar series, in which the ideas, principles, and implications of LBJ's Great Society-style liberalism and Ronald Reagan's limited govern...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinars-the-great-society-vs-modern-conservatism/

In this month's episode of Documents in Detail , TAH faculty members discussed the meaning, context around, and importance of Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 State of the Union address, famous for its...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-fdrs-1944-state-of-the-union-speech/

Drs. Chris Burkett, Peter Myers, and Lucas Morel discussed the different views and goals of Martin Luther King, jr. and Malcolm X in our latest Great American Debates series of Saturday Webinars...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinars-martin-luther-king-jr-vs-malcolm-x/

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points laid out Wilson's plan for not only a post-war world, but in many ways a new world order, in response to the destruction of World War 1. TAH scholars discuss the ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-wilsons-fourteen-points/

TAH has produced some new content and resources about the Bill of Rights, and we've decided to put them together in a single post for easy access. Documents in Detail Bill of Rights webinar Bill...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-bill-of-rights/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history,  government, civics, and social studies teachers. While you may be familiar with our 50 Core American Doc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-the-bill-of-rights-2/

March 6th is the anniversary of the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision, and in part to mark the event, TAH has partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to hold a Sem...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/162nd-anniversary-of-dred-scott-v-sandford/

TAH'S Saturday Webinar on March 3rd, 2019, focused on the ideological, practical, and political debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, primarily during the election campaign of 19...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-fdr-vs-hoover/

An essential statement of America's changing role in the world at the time, both aimed toward the future and rooted in the past, Theodore Roosevelt's expansion of the Monroe Doctrine helped to de...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-roosevelts-corollary-to-the-monroe-doctrine/

TAH.org's Great American Debates Saturday Webinar for 2 February 2019 focused on the heated years of debate during the late 19th and early 20th centuries over America's role in the world, and whe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-imperialists-vs-non-interventionists/

Abraham Lincoln's 1865 speech on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise signaled his return to public life and politics, after a few years of private law practice. In the speech he outlined not on...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-lincolns-speech-on-the-repeal-of-the-missouri-compromise/

The first Great American Debates webinar of 2019 took place on Saturday, 12 January, with a deep dive into the causes and ideas behind the opposing - and both diverse and complex in and of themse...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-secessionists-vs-unionists/

Thomas Jefferson wrote this letter only weeks before his death in 1826, and in it seeks to explain, in effect, what he meant by some of the key ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence....

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-thomas-jeffersons-letter-to-roger-weightman/

TAH.org's last Saturday Webinar for 2018 took place on 1 December, and featured another Great American Debate: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas , in their famous 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates' of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-lincoln-vs-douglas/

Our Documents in Detail episode for 14 NOV 18 focused on the Bill of Rights: the politics behind its proposal and adoption; interpretations over time; and place in our history, government, and so...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-bill-of-rights/

PROGRAM ARCHIVE PAGE TAH.org's Saturday Webinar for 10 NOV 2018 focused on the debate between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, and their divergent views on the Constitution, solu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-frederick-douglass-vs-william-lloyd-garrison/

The Great Depression and the New Deal impacted a generation and forever changed the role of federal government in people’s lives to this day. For today’s high school students, the time may co...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/u-s-history-lesson-plans-on-the-great-depression-and-the-new-deal/

The 24 OCT 18 episode of Documents in Detail took a look at Brutus I, one of the essential Antifederalist writings, dated 18 OCT 1787. The program opened with a question from the moderator about ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-brutus-i/

With a few months of the 2018-2019 school year under your belt, you may be starting to hit that fall/winter fatigue. Don’t lose the spark! Now is the perfect time to infuse new life into your t...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-seminars-in-the-southwest/

The Saturday Webinar for October 2018 featured a discussion of the political and personal split between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, with a focus on how their differences contributed ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinars-jefferson-vs-hamilton/

"...in our system of government, which subscribes to the rule of law, is very hard to come to terms with..." THE LATEST VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-the-executive-branch/

You can access our current and archived podcasts through Google Play, and subscribe to our programs there, as well. The post TAH.org Podcast Now on Google Play appeared first on Teaching A...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-org-podcast-now-on-google-play/

Professor Gordon Lloyd gave the attached address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the commemoration of the 231st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Professor Ll...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/constitution-day-lecture-the-least-dangerous-branch/

Today's episode of Documents in Detail  focused on excerpts from James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 - the Constitutional Convention. James Madison was the only de...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-madisons-debates-in-the-federal-convention-of-1787/

"Reconstruction is one of these times in American History where you can learn the limits of what law can accomplish." TAH.org's latest Core American Documents volume , on Reconstruction, is now...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-reconstruction/

"...TO BIGOTRY NO SANCTION..."  After receiving congratulations from people and groups from across America upon becoming the first president, George Washington took the time to respond to many...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/washingtons-letter-to-the-hebrew-congregation-at-newport-full-reading/

How do you make a country from scratch? Leaders during the American Founding, the  period from 1776 through 1789, would dedicate themselves to pursuing the answer until bringing their plan to fr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teaching-americas-founding/

James Madison authored a powerful defense of religious liberty while serving in the Virginia state government, arguing that there should be no tax collected to support any established - that is, ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-james-madisons-memorial-and-remonstrance/

TAH.org is doing a trial run of making recorded readings of essential original documents available online. These documents, selected from our library and various documents collections, are read v...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-declaration-of-independence-full-reading/

The 2018-19 season of TAH.org's Saturday Webinars got off to a great start on 18 August with our first episode, Patriots vs. Loyalists , in which our scholars dug deeply into the political, soci...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-patriots-vs-loyalists/

The country was divided. A “nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” was struggling to define that equality in light of slavery and calls...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teaching-the-civil-war-and-reconstruction/

"You can't understand American History without understanding the role of religion in our history and politics..." TAH.org's Core American Documents collection on Religion in American History a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-documents-collection-religion-in-american-history-and-politics/

Today's podcast includes an interview with Dr. Jennifer Keene, of Chapman University  and president of the Society for Military History . Dr. Keene is the volume editor for our new World War...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-world-war-2-2/

The best way to study the advantages and disadvantages of compromise is to study the Constitutional Convention - through documents. THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-the-constitutional-convention-2/

Over the course of 100 days in 1787, American history would be made in a boisterous and sweltering Independence Hall. While the 55 delegates who showed up thought they were “just” going to re...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teaching-the-american-founding-and-the-constitutional-convention/

The American Founding, which took place from 1776-1791, is book-ended by the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE DOC...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-the-american-founding-2/

The Great Depression and New Deal can be more easily understood by thinking of it as a story in six parts. Today's interview is with Dr. John Moser , Professor of History at Ashland University ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-great-depression-and-new-deal/

It’s impossible to separate a culture’s literature from its history, yet every day, in classrooms across the country, the two subjects function in isolation. It’s easy to understand why: wi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-benefits-of-team-teaching-american-history-and-literature/

The TAH.org podcast, already available through iTunes and our RSS feed , and now with over 120 separate programs as of today, is now available through Stitcher , an outstanding podcast directory...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-org-podcasts-now-available-on-stitcher/

In today’s national conversation, which lately seems more like a countrywide schoolyard brawl with citizens hurling insults and memes, it can be challenging to explore complex ideas. Politics a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/how-to-talk-politics-and-religion-in-the-american-history-classroom/

The last episode in TAH.org's 2017-18 Documents in Detail webinar series, focused on Ronald Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing " speech. Often referred to as "The Speech," is was a persuasive, ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-a-time-for-choosing/

THE LATEST VOLUMES OF OUR CORE AMERICAN DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS – DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES – ARE NOW AVAILABLE! TAH.org and professors Rob McDonald and LTC Seanegan Sculley from the History De...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-documents-and-debates/

THE LATEST VOLUMES OF  OUR CORE AMERICAN DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS – DOCUMENTS AND DEBATES – ARE NOW AVAILABLE! TAH.org and professors Rob McDonald and LTC Seanegan Sculley from the History ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-documents-2-volume-documents-and-debates-now-available/

TAH.org's last Saturday Webinar for the 2017-18 school year, today we focused on the 444 day long crisis in which 52 American embassy workers were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries and hel...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-iran-hostage-crisis/

Today's Documents in Detail webinar focused on Dr. Martin Luther King jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech, " which was delivered on the heels of a Congressional filibuster that had been started to blo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-mlks-i-have-a-dream-speech/

Today's podcast includes a conversation with David Krugler , Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville about his work as volume editor for our newest Core American Documents...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-the-cold-war/

THE LATEST VOLUME OF  OUR CORE AMERICAN DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS – THE COLD WAR – IS NOW AVAILABLE! GET YOUR COPY ON ITUNES , KINDLE , AND PDF . Hard copies are also available for $10 eac...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-cold-war/

TAH.org's 7 APril 2018 Saturday Webinar was about Watergate , and the ensuing political and seeming constitutional crisis that ensued. Panelists discussed the background of the break-in that led...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinars-watergate/

Wednesday 21 March's webinar focused on the Long Telegram, the famous George Kennan communique from Moscow in 1946, on which so much of American foreign policy after World War 2 was based. Schola...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/document-in-detail-the-long-telegram/

TAH.org is publishing over 40 individual volumes in our Core American Documents series, with four volumes already available as of today. In addition to the individual volumes, we are going provi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-american-documents-series-introduction/

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS – WORLD WAR II – IS NOW AVAILABLE! GET YOUR COPY ON ITUNES , KINDLE , AND PDF . Hard copies are also ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/fourth-volume-of-core-documents-curriculum-world-war-ii-now-available/

Saturday, 3 March 2018's TAH.org teacher webinar was about Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. The violent response to a peaceful Civil Rights march on 7 March 1965, televised and immortalized in pi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar/

Remember the excitement you felt the first time you read the Gettysburg Address, watched a presidential debate, or visited a national memorial? You found yourself face to face with the wonder and...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/love-of-learning/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history,  government, civics, and social studies teachers. While you may be familiar with our 50 Core American Doc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/core-documents-early-access/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org's Documents in Detail webinar for Wednesday, 21 FEB 2018 focused on FDR's Commonwealth Club Address, seen as his closing argument to America late in the 1932 election ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-fdrs-commonwealth-club-address/

Dr. Gordon Lloyd visited Dr. Jeff Sikkenga's class at Pepperdine University in early February 2018 to talk about the origins of the Bill of Rights, with particular focus on the First Amendment, a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/special-video-presentation-gordon-lloyd-at-pepperdine-on-the-bill-of-rights/

THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS – THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES  AND PDF . Hard copies are also available for...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/third-volume-of-core-documents-curriculum-the-constitutional-convention-out-now/

TAH.org's 3 FEB 18 Saturday Webinar looked deeply into the Cuban Missile Crisis , the '13 days' during which the world seemed to teeter on the bring of nuclear war. How did this crisis come in...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-the-cuban-missile-crisis/

TR's New Nationalism speech was the focus on 24 January's Documents in Detail webinar. The importance of the political context around the speech - trends in Republican politics, recent electora...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-theodore-roosevelts-new-nationalism-speech/

The application window for the 2018-19 schedule of Liberty Fund/TAH.org co-sponsored weekend colloquia will be open from 18-26 January, with six programs from which to choose, scheduled from Aug...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/2018-19-liberty-fund-weekend-colloquia/

Recently, TeachingAmericanHistory.org launched the first volume in the new 35-volume document collection. THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CORE DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS – ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/second-volume-of-core-document-curriculum-now-available-the-great-depression-and-the-new-deal/

2018's first TAH.org took place on Saturday, 6 January, and focused on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Professors Chris Burkett, David Krugler, and John Moser, discussed the reasons behind t...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-attack-on-pearl-harbor/

If you’re like most teachers, you can’t help but put your students first. In fact, during lean budgetary times, you may even make sacrifices with your wallet. According to AdoptaClassroom.com...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/find-free-resources-for-your-american-history-classroom/

The last TAH.org Webinar for 2017 took place on December 13th, with a discussion of the Gettysburg Address . Drs. John Moser, Jon White, and Dan Monroe discussed the words and ideas in Lincoln's...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-gettysburg-address/

“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT.” “GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE.” “I HAVE A DREAM.” You became a history teacher because iconic words like th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/engage-the-disengaged-student-renew-your-american-history-curriculum-with-these-free-resources/

The Bill of Rights was adopted on 15 December, 1791, and is made up of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution . Originally made up of 12 amendments, two of which would be rati...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/bill-of-rights-anniversary/

The last Saturday Webinar of 2017 aired on 2 DEC, with a lively discussion about the sinking of the USS Maine , and its role in the Spanish-American War, as well as its place within the context...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-sinking-of-the-uss-maine/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history,  government, civics, and social studies teachers. While you may be familiar with our 50 Core American Docu...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/new-resource-first-volume-of-core-document-curriculum-now-available/

TAH.org continued its Saturday Webinar series on November 18th, 2017, looking deeply at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A far larger, more complex, and more ambitious plot than many people ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-lincolns-assassination/

15 November's Documents in Detail webinar was about Frederick Douglass's What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ?, his oration delivered on 5 July 1862. There were some technical difficulties i...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Join us at NCSS this weekend in San Francisco - REGISTER WITH TAH to receive updates on our teacher programs and other resources we offer at TeachingAmericanHistory.org. Stop by our booth at t...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/ncss/

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I. We're pleased to share with you a new lesson developed for the Ohio History Connection by 2010 Ohio History T...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/world-war-i-and-the-founding-of-the-disabled-american-veterans/

18 October's Documents in Detail program focused on the Monroe Doctrine - that which gave rise to the politics that led to it, what it said and meant, and how it represented a growing sense of Am...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-monroe-doctrine/

This month's Saturday Webinar was about the Nullification Crisis of 1832 . Our program began with the question, which comes up so often in early American History on the topic of slavery and secti...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/moments-of-crisis-webinar-nullification-crisis/

One of the most famous of The Federalist , number 51 , penned by James Madison in February 1788, tackles the issue of how to build a system of government that is forced to check itself in order ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-federalist-51/

We're trying something new in the form of a short, monthly website and programs update podcast, in which we'll take a few minutes to highlight some of the newest and most relevant resources and p...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/september-programs-and-website-update/

If you missed September's Saturday Webinar , about the Election of 1800 , you can view the archived video and listen to the audio at the links below. Program archive page iTunes Podcast P...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/moments-of-crisis-webinar-election-of-1800/

Representatives from TAH.org will be at NCSS in San Francisco , November 17th and 18th, 2017. Jeremy Gypton, Michelle Hubenschmidt, and Chris Pascarella will be on the exhibitor floor with inform...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/join-tah-org-at-ncss-in-san-francisco/

The first Documents in Detail session for the 17-18 school year took place on 30 August 2017, with a discussion of the Declaration of Independence . Among the many topics and questions discussed...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-declaration-of-independence/

Are you planning on visiting historic Philadelphia, either yourself or with students? Our Constitutional Convention exhibit  has resources about the Convention itself, and also an interactive ma...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/philadelphia-travel-resource/

TAH.org's first Saturday Webinar of the 2017-18 school year took place on 26 August, focusing on the Intolerable Acts . Over 120 teachers joined our panel of scholars for a live discussion of th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-the-intolerable-acts/

27 August of 2017 marks the 109th birthday of Lyndon Baynes Johnson, our 34th president. Below are some resources worth using to learn more about the president behind the Great Society, and saddl...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/lbjs-birthday-27-august/

Hoover and FDR, presidents during the Great Depression, are often fit neatly into nearly-stereotypical categories: the do-nothing and the man of action; the old, ineffective approach and new, suc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-re-examining-hoover-and-fdr/

This podcast discusses the eugenics movement in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. Eugenics gained authority from science, earned the support of prominent Americans, and ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-religion-and-science-the-case-of-eugenics/

Originally recorded in March, 2005, Dr. Stephen Knott  addressed a group of teachers in a two-session program, discussing the often-clashing views and personalities of Thomas Jefferson and Alex...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-jefferson-and-hamilton-opposed-in-death-as-in-life-pt2/

ew other questions in American history have generated more controversy than “What Caused the Civil War?” That conflict preserved the United States as one nation, indivisible and abolished the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-causes-of-the-civil-war-pt-2/

Originally recorded in March, 2005, Dr. Stephen Knott addressed a group of teachers in a two-session program, discussing the often-clashing views and personalities of Thomas Jefferson and Alexan...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-jefferson-and-hamilton-opposed-in-death-as-in-life-pt1/

Few other questions in American history have generated more controversy than “What Caused the Civil War?” That conflict preserved the United States as one nation, indivisible and abolished th...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-causes-of-the-civil-war-pt-1/

Dr. Peter Myers, of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire , gave this 74-minute presentation about Frederick Douglass, and his views on Abraham Lincoln. Introduced by Dr. Peter Schramm, Myers di...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-podcast-frederick-douglass-on-lincoln/

Our two webinar series for the 17-18 school year, Saturday Webinars: Moments of Crisis and Documents in Detail  now have a calendar to which you can subscribe and have appear in your Google cal...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-org-webinars-calendars/

Teachers who aim to impart critical thinking skills must be willing to trust their students. Trust is essential to a range of teaching strategies, but one very interesting example appears in the ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/team-teaching-social-studies-and-language-arts-in-a-rigorous-project-based-curriculum/

In March, the Minnesota Council of Social Studies named HEATHER LOESCHKE 2017 Teacher of the Year. Loeschke, a 2014 graduate of the MASTER OF ARTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT (MAHG) PROGRA...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/minnesota-teacher-of-the-year-constantly-builds-her-content-knowledge/

This July, TAH.org introduces a new program for teachers of American history and American literature. Our three-day History & Literature seminars will examine key themes in American histo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/summer-2017-history-and-literature-seminar/

Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad, which won the 2016 National Book Award for fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, presents teachers of American history and literature an opport...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/3534-2/

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) invites you to apply for the 2017 National Seminar for High School Educators on July 16-18 and July 19-21 in Washington, DC. The 24-hour pr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/apply-for-july-national-seminar-for-high-school-educators/

Beginning in early August, TAH.org will add a series of American History Toolkits, which are topically-focused collections, each made up of resources from around the site, and organized to provid...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/coming-summer-2017-american-history-toolkits/

TAH.org has completed the pilot season of Documents in Detail , with five episodes now available in our archives . Teachers, students, and citizens from around the country have downloaded podcast...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-webinar-archives/

The last Documents in Detail webinar for the 16-17 school year took place on Wednesday, 17 May, and focused on George Washington's Farewell Address.  A good question that kicked off the discuss...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-washingtons-farewell-address/

TAH.org's 2016-17 school year Saturday Webinar series, Landmark Supreme Court Cases, has finished its run, ending the year on 13 May 2017 with New Jersey v. T.L.O. You can access all the archive...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/landmark-supreme-court-cases-webinars-archives/

The 1985 search and seizure case, at a high school in New Jersey, addressed standards for how school officials are to interpret Fourth Amendment rights. The original question that faced the cour...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-new-jersey-v-t-l-o/

TAH.org is excited to announce two 10-episode webinars series for the 2017-18 school year. Both series are free to attend, feature live, documents-based discussions between scholars with question...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/webinars-for-2017-18/

April's Documents in Detail webinar was about Elizabeth Cady Stanton's address to the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Stanton's use of John Locke, her view that women deserved the vote on moral...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-elizabeth-cady-stantons-address-delivered-at-seneca-falls/

Incorporating the Federalist Papers into American Government and American History courses is both important and challenging, given the complexity of the language. Doing the same with Anti-Federal...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/new-resource-on-tah-org/

The 9th of TAH.org's Landmark Supreme Court Cases webinars took place on Saturday, 8 April 2017, with University of CA Regents v. Bakke (1978)  as the focus. Scholars provided a background on ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-regents-of-ca-v-bakke/

Professors John Moser, Jason Stevens, and John Dinan discussed James Madison's Federalist 10 in today's webinar. The background, historical context, and meaning of the document were discussed ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-james-madisons-federalist-10/

15 teachers gathered in Charlottesville, VA, to discuss Thomas Jefferson through a collection of documents spanning most of his public life, and visit historic Monticello . Professor Todd Estes...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/liberty-fund-weekend-colloquium-thomas-jefferson/

Roe v. Wade was the topic of  TAH.org's Saturday Webinar held on 11 March 2017, with Drs. Chris Burkett, John Dinan, and David Alvis discussing the legal, political, historical, and constitution...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-roe-v-wade/

Love of history and an interest in helping young people drew JOTWAN DANIELS away from a planned business career and into high school teaching. He also hoped to improve on the teaching method his ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/recreating-teaching-american-history-colloquium-teacher-helps-students-learn-about-african-american-experience-in-world-war-i/

JOE WELCH, an American history teacher at North Hills Middle School near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, relies on internet technology for access to primary historical documents. He directs his eighth ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/students-unlock-clues-in-primary-documents-finding-constitution-booklet/

The second episode in our pilot webinar series, Documents in Detail , aired live on 15 February, with a focus on MLK's Letter from Birmingham City Jail , of 1963. Among a variety of issues and to...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-mlks-letter-from-birmingham-city-jail/

The latest in our Landmark Supreme Court Cases Saturday Webinar series focused on Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), the landmark case that decided a school-based case about expressive speech and pol...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-tinker-v-des-moines/

TAH.org's first Documents in Detail webinar aired on Wednesday, 25 January 2017, focusing on Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address . Professors John Moser, Eric Sands, and Joe Fornieri disc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/documents-in-detail-lincolns-second-inaugural/

Drs. Chris Burkett, Stephen Tootle, and Jeff Sikkenga discussed the background, constitutional questions, politics, and immediate and long-range impact of the landmark case Miranda v. Arizona (...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-miranda-v-arizona/

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) was the subject of December's Saturday Webinar.  guest hosted by Dr. Jason Stevens of Ashland University. The case, which overturned a previous USSC case and forc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-gideon-v-wainwright/

Interested in joining our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) degree program? Below are the 2017 Spring and Summer schedules. SPRING 2017 SCHEDULE  SUMMER 2017 ONLINE S...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/upcoming-2017-mahg-schedule-available/

Our friends at the Ohio History Connection are pleased to announce their 2017 NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop entitled Following in Ancient Footsteps: The Hopewell in Ohi...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/following-in-ancient-footsteps-the-hopewell-in-ohio-2/

Kelly Eddy, a 2015 graduate of Ashland University's Master of Arts in American History and Government degree program, teaches Advanced Placement US history at Winston Churchill High School in Li...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teachers-volunteer-work-gives-her-students-opportunity-to-work-with-shoah-foundation/

The 2016 presidential election highlighted strong divisions among American voters, while the outcome defied the predictions of pollsters. We asked Professor MARC LANDY, a highly respected instruc...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-scholar-of-the-presidency-discusses-the-2016-election/

Talk with teachers participating in TAH.org's programs, and you learn that many have cultivated a deep knowledge of the history of their states, counties, and towns. Local history it is not emph...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teacher-testifies-to-benjamin-franklins-wonderful-life/

TAH.org's latest episode in our Landmark Supreme Court Cases webinar series took place on Saturday, 19 November, and was hosted by Dr. Chris Burkett, with Drs. Emily Hess and Jason Stevens as pa...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-brown-v-board-of-education/

This last Saturday, October 15th, the esteemed Dr. Stephen Knott presented a Forum at the Fraunces Tavern in New York City.  Fifty-five teachers from several states gathered at this historic sit...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-alexander-hamilton-hosted-at-fraunces-tavern-nyc/

The latest episode of TAH.org 's Landmark Supreme Court Cases Saturday Webinars  aired live on Saturday, 15 October 2016, with Dred Scott v. Sandford  as the focus. Prof. Chris Burkett of Ashl...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-dred-scott-v-sandford/

TAH.org is going to pilot what we hope will become a second regular webinar series, this time on a weekday evening, and with a different focus than our current Saturday Webinar series. We'd appre...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/weekday-webinar-series-survey/

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:27 — 45.6MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS There is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty, Tocqueville in...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/rebuilding-the-liberty-narrative-a-conversation-with-gordon-lloyd/

This last weekend 18 teachers came to Alexandria, Virginia  for a Liberty Fund Colloquia on George Washington.  Topics of conversation considered Washington’s early life and the beginning of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/liberty-fund-weekend-colloquium-george-washington/

TAH.org is once again excited to support the Roots of Liberty National Essay Contest . This is an excellent opportunity for a high school teacher to sponsor an outstanding student essay. The con...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/second-roots-of-liberty-national-essay-contest-is-underway/

The first of two sessions from Professor Bill Allen , about the political philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.  This was recorded at the Ashbrook Center with a ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/from-the-archives-re-thinking-uncle-tom-the-political-philosophy-of-h-b-stowe/

Drs. Chris Burkett, Jeremy Bailey, and Dan Monroe discussed the historical context, constitutional connections and reasoning, and legal and political legacy of the second in our Landmark Supreme ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-mcculloch-v-maryland/

Eighteen teachers from across the United States gathered in Springfield, IL, from 9-11 September to study Abraham Lincoln's public life, through a broad selection of readings representing his ear...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/liberty-fund-weekend-colloquium-abraham-lincoln/

In this post, we report on five teachers’ project to assign a common book probing American understanding of the Civil War. Five Madison Fellows from five states, four of them in the MAHG progr...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/five-teachers-compare-student-attitudes-toward-civil-war/

Charles Dew, author of Apostles of Disunion, published this month The Making of Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade. Part memoir, part history, this thoughtful...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/a-conversation-with-historian-charles-dew/

The friendships that begin in the Master of Arts program in History and Government lead to a fertile exchange of teaching ideas. Recently they’ve led to teaching collaborations across time zone...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/creative-collaborations-among-teachers/

On Saturday, August 13th, Ashland University awarded the degree of Master of Arts to 24 MAHG/MASTAHG students.  Since 2005, 174 students have earned the degree. Twenty-two of these new graduat...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/mahg-by-the-numbers/

On Saturday 27 August 2016, TAH.org hosted its first Saturday Webinar of the 2016-17 school year, on Marbury v. Madison. This year's theme of Landmark Supreme Court cases got off to a great sta...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-marbury-v-madison/

TAH.org hosted two Colloquia the weekend of August 12-14: James Madison: The Father of the Consitution at Montpelier and John F Kennedy: The New Frontier in Quincy, Massachusetts.   No single ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-reports-the-father-of-the-constitution-and-the-new-frontier/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org has a new feature: a simple, enhanced search tool embedded on every page of the site. If you look in the upper-right corner of any page you'll see the Search box that...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/new-tah-org-site-feature-enhanced-sitewide-search/

This last weekend, Aug 5th-7th, TeachingAmericanHistory.org conducted two Weekend Colloquia at Historic Sites for forty-five teachers from across America.   Professor Steve Knott, with the Na...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-august-5-7-weekend-colloquia/

Saturday, July 30th, TeachingAmericanHistory.org partnered once again with the Massachusetts Historical Society for a Forum on the Civil War, generously sponsored by the Filene Foundation in Mass...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-the-civil-war-at-the-massachusetts-historical-society/

Teachers from California to Massachusetts gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 22-24 July to learn about the historic Yalta Conference of February 1945, in which the stage was set for much of...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-the-grand-alliance-at-new-orleans/

The Manatee Technical College hosted a two day TAH.org seminar on the topics of The American Founding and The Origins of the Cold War that drew teachers from southern and central Florida.  Dr. D...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-reports-the-american-founding-and-the-origins-of-thecold-war/

This past weekend, July 22-24, TeachingAmericanHistory.org and the Ashbrook Center hosted two Weekend Colloquia in Charlottesville, VA on Thomas Jefferson.  Professor Eric Sands of Berry College...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-charlottesville-weekend-colloquia/

We've got a new TAH.org YouTube Channel appeared first on Teaching American History .

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-org-youtube-channel/

ANNOUNCING THE 10 LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASES WEBINAR SERIES Building on the success of our last two years of Saturday Webinars - American Controversies and American Presidents - we invite ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-2016-17-season-landmark-supreme-court-cases/

Historian David Hackett Fischer  discusses the related, yet distinct concepts of liberty and freedom in this archived lecture. Expanding on his 2004 book, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/liberty-vs-freedom/

TAH.org has partnered with the Civics Renewal Network to present a workshop at the 2016 Advanced Placement Annual Conference , in Anaheim, California. TAH.org will also be on the vendor hal...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/crn/

The weekend of June 17th-19th,  teachers from around the country convened in Lexington, Kentucky for a TAH.org Weekend Colloquia on Henry Clay.  This colloquium focused on Henry Clay’s extens...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-henry-clay-weekend-colloquium/

The Daughters of the American Revolution have named a graduate of Ashbrook’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) degree program as West Virginia’s Outstanding Teacher of ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/ashbrook-graduate-earns-top-teacher-award-from-daughters-of-the-american-revolution/

On Saturday, May 21st TAH.org brought Dr. Gordon Lloyd to the Massachusetts Historical Society to present on FDR's "Forgotten Man" vs. Hoover's "Rugged Individual". This seminar discussed the Gre...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-fdr-vs-hoover-at-the-ma-historical-society-in-boston/

This past weekend Montpelier, the home of James and Dolley Madison, hosted teachers from the western Pennsylvania region, courtesy the Allegheny Foundation. The topic was James Madison: The Fathe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-james-madison-colloquium-in-montpelier-va/

May 18th is the anniversary Plessy v. Ferguson , in which the doctrine of "equal, but separate" was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. This landmark case helped to cement the Jim C...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/plessy-v-ferguson-may-18th-1896/

In October, KIMBERLY HUFFMAN, a graduate of Ashbrook's Master of Arts in American History and Government degree program, was named Ohio’s Outstanding Secondary Social Studies Teacher.  The Oh...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/tah-org-masters-graduate-named-ohios-outstanding-secondary-social-studies-teacher/

Our friends at George Washington's Mount Vernon have taken the best elements of their highly popular Summer Residential Program to create their NEW Fall Residential Programs. The two programs bei...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/george-washingtons-mount-vernon-announces-new-fall-teacher-institutes/

On Saturday, May 7, the Palm Beach County School District (FL) hosted a seminar for thirty area teachers about the Nuremburg War Trials led by Dr. David Krugler. Educators discussed the creation ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-nuremburg-war-trials-seminar-in-palm-beach-county-fl/

  Our last Saturday Webinar of the 2015-16 school year took place on Saturday, May 7, with Ronald Reagan as our focus. Teachers from around the country joined our panelists for a discussion a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-ronald-reagan/

This past weekend, educators from the western Pennsylvania region attended a weekend colloquium in Washington, D.C. thanks to the generosity of the Allegheny Foundation. Dr. Lucas Morel of the Un...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-lincoln-collouquim-in-washington-d-c/

TAH.org Teacher seminars model the free and thoughtful discussion of primary documents. Creative teachers like DEB WILEY HORNER take the documents and discussion back to the classroom, and watch...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/teacher-offers-students-a-second-chance-to-engage-with-history-through-primary-documents/

Seventeen teachers, ranging from California to New York, joined TAH.org andDr. David Krugler of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in Austin, Texas, for a weekend colloquium about President...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-lbj-and-vietnam/

This past weekend TAH.org conducted three east coast colloquia at historic sites attended by history and government teachers from across the country. The post Program Reports: Three East Coast ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-reports-three-east-coast-weekend-colloquia-at-historic-sites/

TAH.org hosted a group of teachers from across the country at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, 8-10 April 2016. Reagan's policies, ideas, and the crises ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/weekend-colloquium-ronald-reagan-library-and-museum/

Last weekend 18 teachers from around the country came together in Hyde Park, New York for a Liberty Fund Co-Sponsored Weekend Seminar on Franklin D. Roosevelt.Last weekend 18 teachers from around...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-liberty-fund-co-sponsored-weekend-seminar-in-hyde-park-ny/

Saturday, April 9th's American Presidents webinar focused on Lyndon Johnson and the two pillars of his administration: the Great Society, and the Vietnam War. Panelists discussed topics ranging...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-webinar-lyndon-johnson/

18 teachers from across the country gathered in Springfield, IL, April 1-3, to deepen their knowledge of Abraham Lincoln at our latest Liberty Fund co-sponsored weekend colloquium. Discussion s...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/abraham-lincoln-program-report/

This past weekend, April 2nd, TeachingAmericanHistory.org and the Ashbrook Center hosted two weekend colloquia in Charlottesville, VA about Thomas Jefferson. Professor Eric Sands of Berry College...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-2-thomas-jefferson-colloquia-in-charlottesville-va/

  In support of 'Freedom Day ,' TeachingAmericanHistory.org  has collected a variety of resources for you and your classes. Freedom Day encourages people of all ages to explore how Americ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/freedom-day-resources/

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were, famously, political opponents.  Their differences went beyond grand visions of the country’s future and the daily operation of the new government,...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/webinar-religion-in-american-history-politics-jefferson-and-hamilton/

The latest in our American Presidents webinar series took place on Saturday, 4 March 2016, with Dwight D. Eisenhower as the focus for this month. Drs. Chris Burkett, Joe Postell, and David Alvis...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-webinar-dwight-eisenhower/

Paul LaRue , a teacher at Washington High School in Washington Court House, Ohio and the 2010 Ohio History Teacher of the Year , shares with us a lesson plan he contributed to the Civil War Trus...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/united-states-colored-troops-lesson-plan/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+30+pt2+Kesler.mp3 FOCUS Reagan seemed to campaign against Roosevelt's legacy, but delighted in pointing out that he voted for h...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-30-pt2-the-reagan-era-and-the-new-deal-legacy-george-w-bushs-founding-faith/

TAH.org is excited to support the Roots of Liberty National Essay Contest. This is an excellent opportunity for a high school teacher to sponsor an outstanding student essay. The contest question...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/roots-of-liberty-national-essay-contest/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+30+pt1+Morel.mp3 FOCUS Does King's proposal for a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" indicate a shift from his earlier visio...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-30-pt1-martin-luther-king-jr-malcolm-x/

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the subject of Saturday, 13 February's American Presidents webinar. Professor Chris Burkett , of Ashland University, moderated the 80-minute discussion between Drs. Ste...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-webinar-franklin-d-roosevelt/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+29+Morel.mp3 FOCUS In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court briefly traces the history of public schools in A...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-29-brown-v-board-of-education-martin-luther-king-jr-non-violent-resistance-and-the-american-dream/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is proud to offer elite programs to social studies and civic teacher from across the country. TAH.org’s Weekend Colloquia at Historic Sites allows teachers to explor...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/apply-now-summer-weekend-colloquia-at-historic-sites-for-teachers/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+28+J+Williams.mp3 FOCUS What role did Thurgood Marshall play in the Civil Rights Movement? What was his view of the American fou...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-28-thurgood-marshall-and-the-naacp/

Here's a new opportunity for teachers from our friends at the Ohio History Connection. Come learn about America’s Demon Times! This one-week workshop, funded by the National Endowment for the...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/demon-times-temperance-immigration-and-progressivism-in-an-american-city/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+27+Kesler.mp3 FOCUS The political and constitutional legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt is impressive. What was his extraordinary a...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-27-franklin-d-roosevelt-and-democratic-leadership/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+26+Kesler.mp3 FOCUS The Progressives fought for reform at the turn of the century. What principled form did their criticism take...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-26-the-progressive-reform-and-self-government/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+25+Morel.mp3 FOCUS What did Washington believe were the most urgent priorities for blacks at the close of the 19th century? On w...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-25-booker-t-washington-w-e-b-du-bois/

TAH.org kicked off 2016 with the sixth episode in this year's American Presidents webinar series. Today's 75-minute program, moderated as always by the Dr. Chris Burkett of Ashland University, i...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-theodore-roosevelt/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+24+Morel+and+Kesler.mp3 FOCUS What did the American founding and Civil War look like to politicians and public intellectuals at ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-24-the-modern-era-confronts-the-american-founding/

Last Saturday teachers from four states gathered in Asheville, North Carolina for one of the final TAH.org seminars of 2015. They discussed "Civil Disobedience" with Dr. David Alvis, an interesti...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-civil-disobedience-seminar-in-asheville-nc/

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is proud to offer the third and final part of our Presidential Academy documents-based survey course of American history and American political thought through iTunesU...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/presidential-academy-mlks-i-have-a-dream-speech-and-modern-america/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+23+Morel.mp3 FOCUS How did Douglass answer the question, "What Country Have I?" What was his critique of the emigrationist posit...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-23-frederick-douglass-reconstruction-and-the-future-of-black-americans/

TAH.org was delighted to hold our first South Carolina seminars in the historic town of Charleston at the Charleston History Museum this past weekend. Surrounded by historical artifacts and a rep...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-american-founding-seminar-in-charleston-sc/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+22+Morel.mp3 FOCUS Why does Lincoln call "all men are created equal" a "proposition" instead of a "self-evident truth"? How doe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-22-a-new-birth-of-freedom-and-lincolns-re-election/

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015, TeachingAmericanHistory.org presented a bonus webinar in its American Presidents series. Put on in conjunction with NCSS, this one-hour episode was a bonus program fo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/american-presidents-webinar-richard-nixon/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+21+Guelzo.mp3 FOCUS The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave under the authority of the Federal government, e.g...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-21-lincolns-emancipation-proclamation/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+20+Morel.mp3 FOCUS Lincoln claimed to be fighting a war that would lead to "a new birth of freedom," yet some claim he violated ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-20-lincoln-and-civil-liberties/

  Our teachers, from CA to NY and many parts in between From November 20-22, 17 teachers from across the country gathered in Green Valley, Arizona, to discuss the Cold War with Dr. John Mos...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-cold-war-weekend-colloquium-in-green-valley-az/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+19+Guelzo.mp3 FOCUS As Lincoln recounts the early history of the federal government, what authority did it exercise over slavery...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-19-lincolns-election-secession-and-the-civil-war/

This past weekend TAH.org hosted a seminar at the Museum of Appalachia on the Great Depression to Knoxville, Tennessee. Teachers from as far away as Asheville, North Carolina sat with Dr. John Mo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-the-great-depression-seminar-in-knoxville-tn/

The Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee hosted teachers for a weekend colloquia on Andrew Jackson chaired by Dr. Dan Monroe from Milliken University. Dr. Monroe led conversations that discus...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-andrew-jackson-weekend-colloquium-in-nashville-tn/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+18+Morel.mp3 FOCUS What reasons did Southern secession commissioners give for seceding from the Union? What reasons did Alexande...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-18-the-rights-and-wrongs-of-secession/

TAH.org hosted the fifth in this school year's American Presidents webinar series, this time focusing on the single term presidency of James K. Polk . The 72-minute discussion between scholars ...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/saturday-webinar-james-k-polk/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+17+McPherson.mp3 FOCUS Why did the South secede? Why did secession lead to war? For a half century the northern, free states coe...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-17-the-causes-of-the-civil-war/

The final session of the Foundation for Teaching the U.S. Constitution webinar took place on Tuesday, 27 October 2015, with Dr. Gordon Lloyd discussing the final Hearing Question and the challeng...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/we-the-people-webinar-session-6/

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+16+Guelzo.mp3 FOCUS Contrast Lincoln's understanding of the relation between public opinion and political rule with that of Step...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/session-16-lincoln-douglas-debates-of-1858/

On Saturday, October 24th, teachers from Central Florida gathered in the 1902 Historic County Courthouse in Bartow for a TAH.org Seminar on Civil Disobedience led by Dr. David Alvis. An interesti...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-civil-disobedience-seminar-in-bartow-florida/

The latest in TAH.org's 24/7 course options, this 4-hour program is about the Federalist-Antifederalist debates that took place across the country after September 1787 and produced some of the mo...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/new-itunes-u-course-federalist-antifederalist-debates/

On Saturday, October 17th, Palm Beach County School District hosted a One-Day Seminar on The Vietnam War. Dr. Will Atto from the University of Dallas led the discussion on this complicated and co...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/program-report-vietnam-war-seminar-in-west-palm-beach-fl/