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Does the Presidency Function as the Founders Intended?
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 Government program, traces what…
Essay Contest for High School Students
Attention, High School teachers! The Bill of Rights Institute is holding a scholarship essay contest…
Frederick Douglass Speaks to Civil Rights Mass Meeting
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, a milestone in building…
Lincoln’s Notes on Slavery
[caption id="attachment_1229" align="alignright" width="227"] Abraham Lincoln in 1858[/caption] One hundred and fifty years ago, Lincoln…
The Founding of the First National Anti-Slavery Organization
[caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="225"] William Lloyd Garrison, an early spokesman for and eventual leader of…
Andrew Jackson Vetoes Re-Chartering the Bank of the United States
For those working through a survey of American history and reaching the Jacksonian era, we…
Regional Views of the War of 1812
[caption id="attachment_1178" align="alignright" width="365"] The northern theater of the War of 1812 (Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] The…