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
Today, on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, we remember Pauli Murray, who suggested the strategy Thurgood Marshall used in
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
The polio vaccine trials that eventually led to the eradication of this disease in the US—and in almost all regions of the world—began 68 years ago this month. Comparing the
This month we’re featuring a new online exhibit at TAH.org: The Presidential Election of 1912. It is curated by Professor Jason Jividen (who also edited our Core Document Collection, Populists and Progressives.) Jividen is Associate Professor
To learn more about the election of 1912, the party platforms, and to view an electoral map, please visit our new exhibit, “The Presidential Election of 1912.“ The Progressive Era
