Juneteenth: Our Newest Federal Holiday
Some of my favorite teaching opportunities are when I get to teach the history behind American holidays. Frequently (usually after the third or fourth holiday lesson) I get the slightly
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Some of my favorite teaching opportunities are when I get to teach the history behind American holidays. Frequently (usually after the third or fourth holiday lesson) I get the slightly
What are our staff and faculty reading this summer? Michelle Hubenschmidt, Teacher Program Manager For your summer reading pleasure I’d like to recommend two easy and light narratives based on
In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the United States Supreme Court argued that under the Constitution and laws of the country, “the Negro … had no rights that the
Last week we spoke with Professor Joshua Dunn about a recently published document collection he edited, The Judiciary. Dunn commented on the Supreme Court’s evolving understanding of its role in our constitutional
Given current news, the most recent addition to our Core Document Collection, The Judiciary, has generated a great deal of interest. It is edited by Professor Joshua Dunn, Professor and Chair
During the early 1980s, I rented a small studio apartment on Capitol Hill, just two blocks from the Library of Congress. I enjoyed the restaurants nearby, and excellent museums were
At a recent Teaching American History weekend seminar in San Diego, Stephanie Nelson relived her experience in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. The seminar, on “the role of Thomas
When Rachelle Friedman received an email from Teaching American History announcing a multi-day seminar on “The Political Theory of the American Founding,” she signed up for it, because it “sounded
Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so
Eleven years ago, on May 2, 2011, President Obama announced that the U.S. military had killed Osama bin Laden, carrying out the sentence he had written for himself by organizing