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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story
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…
Jonathan Edwards: Founding Father of American Evangelicalism
The theme of this year’s A Divine and Spiritual Light. Edwards taught that "there was…
The Atomic Bombs in the Context of World War II
On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped…
Saturday Webinar: Benjamin Franklin
American Minds Webinar Live show to air at 11am, Saturday, 7 SEP 2019, exploring Franklin…
Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely Spotlight
Continuing our blog series on the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,
Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story
Editor’s Note: Earlier this spring as the TAH editorial team was preparing for
TAH Webinars: How They Are Different and Why You Should Register
As with all TAH programs, our . Not confident that your computer and tech…
Foreshadowing Brown: How a South Carolina Case Influenced the Supreme Court’s School Desegregation Ruling
As teachers, we know students become more interested in historical events if you can establish…
The Moon Landing – Resources for the 50th Anniversary
On 20 July 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people…
Saturday Webinar: Jonathan Edwards
Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 17 AUG 2019, exploring the famed revivalist preacher and…
What We’re Talking About: A MAHG Reading Roundup 4
Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus…
Core Documents Collection: Women’s Voices in Religion in American History and Politics
While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America’s religious practitioners, their roles…
What We’re Talking About: A MAHG Reading Roundup 3
Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus…
Protesting the Louisiana Purchase
For most teachers and students of American history the decision seems like the no-brainer of…
What We’re Talking About: A MAHG Reading Roundup 2
Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus…
What We’re Talking About: A MAHG Reading Roundup
Every summer, TeachingAmericanHistory brings together scholars and teachers from around the nation to our campus…
Summer Reading Recommendations from Our Staff
Unsure of what to read this summer? The Teaching American History staff have some recommendations.…
Adding the Lens of Literature to the Testimony of Primary Documents
This summer, Suzanne Hunter Brown will join historian Suzanne Brown teaching the 2018 history and…
D-Day: What if it had failed?
General Dwight Eisenhower was the most powerful man in the world in early June, 1944,…
Religion and Rhetoric in Times of War: The 75th Anniversary of D-Day
Religious Rhetoric at the Front
2019-2020 Webinars – Registration is Open
Saturday Webinars: American Minds - REGISTER HERE During the 2019-20 school year we will revisit…
Did You Know…? Memorial Day
Did you know that the origins of this weekend's holiday honoring America's servicemen and women…
USS Midway Institute for Teachers
Join TAH.org and the graduate faculty. Lunch and a certificate for continuing education are provided,…
Saturday Webinar: Federalists vs. Antifederalists
The second of TAH.org's Federalist-Antifederalist Debates that took place most obviously from late 1787 through 1788,…
“A Great Day for America and its Court”: Brown v. Board of Education Recognizes Segregation As “Inherently Unequal”
Today marks the 65th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision mandating racial desegregation in…
Documents in Detail: LBJ’s Great Society
In this final episode of the 2018-19 Documents in Detail year, we discuss President Lyndon…
Saturday Webinars: The Great Society vs. Modern Conservatism
The final episode in the 2018-19 Great American Debates webinar series, in which the ideas,…
Documents in Detail: FDR’s 1944 State of the Union Speech
In this month's episode of Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 State of the Union address, famous for…
Saturday Webinars: Martin Luther King, jr. vs. Malcolm X
Drs. Chris Burkett, Peter Myers, and Lucas Morel discussed the different views and goals of…
Documents in Detail: Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points laid out Wilson's plan for not only a post-war world, but…
The Bill of Rights
TAH has produced some new content and resources about the Bill of Rights, and we've…
Core American Documents: The Bill of Rights
TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history, government, civics, and social studies…
162nd Anniversary of Dred Scott v. Sandford
March 6th is the anniversary of the infamous Missouri History Museum today - "
Saturday Webinar: FDR vs. Hoover
TAH'S Saturday Webinar on March 3rd, 2019, focused on the ideological, practical, and political debates…
Documents in Detail: Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
An essential statement of America's changing role in the world at the time, both aimed…
Saturday Webinar: Imperialists vs. Non-Interventionists
TAH.org's Great American Debates Saturday Webinar for 2 February 2019 focused on the heated years…
Documents in Detail: Lincoln’s Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln's 1865 speech on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise signaled his return to…
Saturday Webinar: Secessionists vs. Unionists
The first Great American Debates webinar of 2019 took place on Saturday, 12 January, with…
Documents in Detail: Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to Roger Weightman
Thomas Jefferson wrote this letter only weeks before his death in 1826, and in it…
Saturday Webinar: Lincoln vs. Douglas
TAH.org's last Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, in their famous 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates' of 1858. Our…
Documents in Detail: Bill of Rights
Our Documents in Detail episode for 14 NOV 18 focused on the Bill of Rights:…
Saturday Webinar: Frederick Douglass vs. William Lloyd Garrison
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government, Lucas Morel Frederick Douglass: Race and…
U.S. History Lesson Plans on the Great Depression and the New Deal
The Great Depression and the New Deal impacted a generation and forever changed the role…
Documents in Detail: Brutus I
The 24 OCT 18 episode of Documents in Detail took a look at Brutus I,…
TAH One-Day Seminars in the Southwest
With a few months of the 2018-2019 school year under your belt, you may be…
Saturday Webinars: Jefferson vs. Hamilton
The Saturday Webinar for October 2018 featured a discussion of the political and personal split…
Core American Documents: The Executive Branch
"[The concept of executive power]...in our system of government, which subscribes to the rule of…
TAH.org Podcast Now on Google Play
You can access our current and archived podcasts through Google Play, and subscribe to our…
Constitution Day Lecture: “The Least Dangerous Branch”
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the commemoration of the 231st anniversary of the…
Women’s Rights & Roles: Colonial America