On May 26, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Act, the first federal law in American history designed to establish permanent, comprehensive restrictions on immigration. It came at the
Thomas Jefferson is most famous for eloquently articulating three natural rights that belong to “all men”—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But Jefferson held that humans had more than
On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most important and effective speeches of his political career. His speech at Cooper Union was a rhetorical masterpiece and helped
Although a military defeat for the North Vietnamese, the Tet Offensive brought them a political victory in the United States.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility company—as well as the sixth largest power provider in the United States—celebrates its 90th birthday this year. The organization had its origins
Lincoln has always been central to the work of Teaching American History. For example, the master’s degree program that is part of TAH has a required course on Lincoln and
In August 1943, a riot occurred in Harlem when an African American soldier, Robert Bandy, objected to the arrest of Margie Polite on charges of disorderly conduct and was shot
This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith, was first posted on July 16, 2020. We rerun it today in honor of the 175th anniversary of the first
Apart from Richard Nixon’s two-armed-victory-fingered-wave goodbye atop the steps of Marine One preparing to depart the South Lawn of the White House in his final hours as president, John Dean’s hearing before the Select Committee
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