Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. In July of 1774, as colonial resistance to British rule
Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. In 1994, CBS broadcast the film Against Her Will, the
Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government Almost exactly 230 years ago—on August 17, 1790—President George Washington
Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in American History and Government. July 4, 1894 was not a peaceful Independence Day for
Today’s post is the latest in a series of articles highlighting the print and audio version of the twenty-nine chapters in our Core Documents Collection: Documents and Debates in American
On May 29, 1868, General Ulysses S Grant accepted the Republican nomination for president in a short letter to Joseph R Hawley, the party’s convention president. Grant concluded his brief
Almost every American can close their eyes and picture the scene. A small ship arrives off the coast of North America. Hearty pilgrims, armed with a covenant to follow all
Among speeches denouncing slavery, perhaps the most effective ever delivered is Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass proposed to answer this charged question on
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union when a convention in Charleston approved an Ordinance of Secession in December of 1860. Few Americans, during that tumultuous
Looking for thematic primary sources for your classroom? Teaching American History can help! We’ve developed the two-volume Documents and Debates Collection to illustrate the issues at stake in some of the
