Echoes from Dealey Plaza
On this day, 59 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX. The following blog post is an excerpt from MAHG faculty member Stephen Knott’s book, Coming to Terms with John
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On this day, 59 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX. The following blog post is an excerpt from MAHG faculty member Stephen Knott’s book, Coming to Terms with John
The story of the first Thanksgiving that most of us learned in grade school romanticizes the friendship between the Pilgrims who settled in New England and the indigenous people already
“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month…” Is there a U.S. History teacher who hasn’t recited this phrase while discussing World War I and the Armistice that promised its
Royce Aldridge did not begin his career as a history teacher. As a freshman at the University of Montana, he fought against a sense of restlessness. Concluding that he lacked
The following is an excerpt of our latest CDC volume, Native Americans. Written by volume editor Jace Weaver, it describes the scope and purpose of this particular volume. The utmost
We hear it all the time. Political pundits tell us that Americans are more politically divided than at any time since the Civil War. One exception may be the 1960s
Growing up in a house of Cuban exiles, there are certain things you become accustomed to—strong coffee, plantains, and an endless history lesson on US-Cuba relations. From an early age,
Henry Adeoye, an immigrant to America from Nigeria, teaches American history to eighth graders, most of whom are growing up in families who immigrated to America from Mexico or Central
In honor of start of the Supreme Court’s Fall 2022 term, Teaching American History is featuring one of the most consequential decisions from America’s past, the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873). For
Last week we shared news of two recent MAHG graduates who’ve been named History Teachers of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute: Tyler Nice of Oregon, and Lucas George