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William McKinley and the First Modern Presidential Election
This week we’re marking the 125th anniversary of the presidential election season of 1896. In this groundbreaking year, both parties’ candidates deviated from past campaign practices, writes John Giltner, a…
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Milestone Documents to Commemorate in 2021
This year, 2021, marks major anniversaries of several milestone documents in American history. Some—like the…
400 Years Ago This Week: The Pilgrims Land at Plymouth (but not necessarily on a rock)
Although we remember the Pilgrims most commonly in November, it was actually in December of…
Preserving the Common Ground of American Citizenship: Jefferson’s First Inaugural
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Did American Imperialism Threaten American Values?
Today we continue our exploration of Teaching American History’s two-volume document collection, Documents and Debates in…
Documenting Labor in American History
This weekend, Americans will enjoy an extra day off as the nation observes Labor Day.…
Remembering Seneca Falls
172 years ago this Sunday, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and over a…
Documents and Debates: Reconstructing the South
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union when a convention in…
Presenting U.S. History in the words of those who ARGUED it!
My high school American history students loved class debates. Their parents told me it was…
Female Education in the Early Republic
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1688: The Germantown Quakers Protest Slavery
While the seventeenth century is in the news again this week thanks to the 1619…
Happy 200th, Susan B. Anthony!
This Saturday, February 15, 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of woman's rights advocate Susan B…
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The League of Nations Begins, the United States Abstaining
One hundred years ago this month, forty-one nations became founding members of the League of…
Booker T. Washington’s Christmas Story
In “The Problem of the South” (July 11, 1900), Booker T. Washington uses a folksy…
Women’s Rights & Roles: The Abolitionists
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Women’s Rights & Roles: The Early Republic
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Women’s Rights & Roles: The American Revolution
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In a post earlier this week, we marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of…
Women’s Rights & Roles: Colonial America
In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women…
The Atomic Bombs in the Context of World War II
On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped…
The Right of the Disenfranchised to Petition