When I was a small child in the late 1950s, my family moved from Greensboro, NC, to nearby Burlington. Though Burlington was our physical home, our hearts remained in Greensboro,
For the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the trip north to Oxford, Ohio, from Mississippi in June 1964 was a welcome, even life-saving, respite. Leading voter registration
May 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, the first immigration law in the United States to establish an immigration quota system based on national
175 Years Ago Today: Congress Declares War on Mexico, Invoking Manifest Destiny and Destabilizing the House Divided During the first half of the nineteenth century, the young American republic expanded
Early one school year, I asked my Advanced Placement U.S. History students what questions they hoped to have answered in the course. One thoughtful student said she wanted to understand
In the upper South, during the secession crisis of early 1861, the circumstances of Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee were similar in many respects. Majorities in each were both proslavery
Ashland University’s Masters in American History and Government has announced that its graduate programs will be ON CAMPUS in the summer of 2021. With apologies to Neil Armstrong, it is
Americans seeking to understand how the founders developed our Constitutional framework of government have faced a problem deliberately created by the founders, who agreed on a rule of strict secrecy
In accepting the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, William Faulkner said: “problems of the human spirit” were on hold. Now, Faulkner said: “There is only the question: When will
Do you have a favorite American history story? One that seems too good to be true – one that makes you exclaim – You just can’t make this stuff up!
