At a recent TAH multiday seminar on “The Failure of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow,” teachers from around the country gathered in Atlanta to discuss what happened in
“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” It’s a simple rhyme, taught to thousands of young children when most history instruction focused on names and dates. This simple lesson ignores
Word has reached us of the death of our long-time colleague and friend, Gordon Lloyd. Gordon was born in England, raised in Trinidad, and became a naturalized American citizen after
The 1896 presidential contest pitting Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan against the Republican nominee William McKinley centered on economic issues. Bryan, nominated on the strength of his electrifying Cross of Gold
The massive earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906 pulverized much of the city’s infrastructure, including the rented downtown office of California’s first licensed female architect. Yet it
In 1700, a Puritan judge named Samuel Sewall published the first anti-slavery pamphlet in North America. It was titled “The Selling of Joseph,” and this pamphlet made several arguments against
This summer on the campus at Ashland University, teachers in the Master of Arts in American History and Government program have an opportunity to study in a single course successive
One hundred and fifty eight years ago, President Abraham Lincoln gave his Last Public Address. This speech was delivered only two days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on
How does rhetoric shape citizens’ understanding of the political choices they face? In the political contests of our history, which arguments have exerted greater influence over outcomes: those that are
On March 29, 1973, the last American combat soldier, Master Sgt. Max Beilke, left Vietnam, completing the American military withdrawal. President Richard Nixon had announced on January 23, 1973 that
