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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story
Editor’s Note: Earlier this spring as the TAH editorial team was preparing for our essay commemorating the 65th anniversary of the end of school segregation in the first Brown v. Board…
Core Documents Collection: Women’s Voices in Religion in American History and Politics
While women have historically made up an overwhelming percentage of America’s religious practitioners, their roles…
2019-2020 Webinars – Registration is Open
Saturday Webinars: American Minds - REGISTER HERE During the 2019-20 school year we will revisit…
Saturday Webinar: Federalists vs. Antifederalists
The second of TAH.org's Federalist-Antifederalist Debates that took place most obviously from late 1787 through 1788,…
Documents in Detail: LBJ’s Great Society
In this final episode of the 2018-19 Documents in Detail year, we discuss President Lyndon…
Saturday Webinars: The Great Society vs. Modern Conservatism
The final episode in the 2018-19 Great American Debates webinar series, in which the ideas,…
Documents in Detail: FDR’s 1944 State of the Union Speech
In this month's episode of Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 State of the Union address, famous for…
Saturday Webinars: Martin Luther King, jr. vs. Malcolm X
Drs. Chris Burkett, Peter Myers, and Lucas Morel discussed the different views and goals of…
Documents in Detail: Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points laid out Wilson's plan for not only a post-war world, but…
Core American Documents: The Bill of Rights
TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history, government, civics, and social studies…
Saturday Webinar: FDR vs. Hoover
TAH'S Saturday Webinar on March 3rd, 2019, focused on the ideological, practical, and political debates…
Documents in Detail: Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
An essential statement of America's changing role in the world at the time, both aimed…
Saturday Webinar: Imperialists vs. Non-Interventionists
TAH.org's Great American Debates Saturday Webinar for 2 February 2019 focused on the heated years…
Documents in Detail: Lincoln’s Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln's 1865 speech on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise signaled his return to…
Saturday Webinar: Secessionists vs. Unionists
The first Great American Debates webinar of 2019 took place on Saturday, 12 January, with…
Documents in Detail: Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to Roger Weightman
Thomas Jefferson wrote this letter only weeks before his death in 1826, and in it…
Saturday Webinar: Lincoln vs. Douglas
TAH.org's last Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, in their famous 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates' of 1858. Our…
Documents in Detail: Bill of Rights
Our Documents in Detail episode for 14 NOV 18 focused on the Bill of Rights:…
Saturday Webinar: Frederick Douglass vs. William Lloyd Garrison
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government, Lucas Morel Frederick Douglass: Race and…
Documents in Detail: Brutus I
The 24 OCT 18 episode of Documents in Detail took a look at Brutus I,…
Saturday Webinars: Jefferson vs. Hamilton
The Saturday Webinar for October 2018 featured a discussion of the political and personal split…
Core American Documents: The Executive Branch
"[The concept of executive power]...in our system of government, which subscribes to the rule of…
TAH.org Podcast Now on Google Play
You can access our current and archived podcasts through Google Play, and subscribe to our…
Constitution Day Lecture: “The Least Dangerous Branch”
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of the commemoration of the 231st anniversary of the…
Documents in Detail: Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
[caption id="attachment_4149" align="alignright" width="199"]Documents in Detail focused on excerpts from James Madison's Notes of Debates in…
Core American Documents: Reconstruction
"Reconstruction is one of these times in American History where you can learn the limits…
Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport: Full Reading
"...to bigotry no sanction..." After receiving congratulations from people and groups from across America upon…
Documents in Detail: James Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance
James Madison authored a powerful defense of religious liberty while serving in the Virginia state…
The Declaration of Independence: Full Reading
TAH.org is doing a trial run of making recorded readings of essential original documents available…
Saturday Webinar: Patriots vs. Loyalists
The 2018-19 season of TAH.org's Patriots vs. Loyalists, in which our scholars dug deeply into…
Core Documents Collection: Religion in American History and Politics
"You can't understand American History without understanding the role of religion in our history and…
Core American Documents: World War 2
[podcast] Today's podcast includes an interview with Daniel Mitchell if you have any questions or would like…
Core American Documents: The Constitutional Convention
The best way to study the advantages and disadvantages of compromise is to study the…
Core American Documents: The American Founding
The American Founding, which took place from 1776-1791, is book-ended by the Declaration of Independence…
Core American Documents: Great Depression and New Deal
The Great Depression and New Deal can be more easily understood by thinking of it…
Documents in Detail: A Time for Choosing
[caption id="attachment_4021" align="alignright" width="371"]Documents in Detail webinar series, focused on Ronald Reagan's 1964 "
Core American Documents: Documents and Debates
The latest volumes of our Core American Documents Collections – Documents and Debates – are…
Core Documents: 2 Volume “Documents and Debates” now available
The latest volumes of our Core American Documents Collections – Documents and Debates – are…
Saturday Webinar: Iran Hostage Crisis
TAH.org's last Saturday Webinar for the 2017-18 school year, today we focused on the 444…
Documents in Detail: MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Today's Dr. Martin Luther King jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," which was delivered on the…
Core American Documents: The Cold War
Today's podcast includes a conversation with David Krugler, Professor of History at the University of…
Fifth Volume of Core Documents Collection – The Cold War Now Available!
The latest volume of our Core American Documents Collections – the Cold War – is…
Saturday Webinars: Watergate
TAH.org's 7 APril 2018 Watergate, and the ensuing political and seeming constitutional crisis that ensued.…
Document in Detail: The Long Telegram
Wednesday 21 March's webinar focused on the Long Telegram, the famous George Kennan communique from…
Core American Documents: Series Introduction
TAH.org is publishing over 40 individual volumes in our
Saturday Webinar: Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL
Saturday, 3 March 2018's TAH.org teacher webinar was about Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. The…
Documents in Detail: FDR’s Commonwealth Club Address
TeachingAmericanHistory.org's Documents in Detail webinar for Wednesday, 21 FEB 2018 focused on FDR's Commonwealth Club…
Special Video Presentation: Gordon Lloyd at Pepperdine on the Bill of Rights
Dr. Gordon Lloyd visited Dr. Jeff Sikkenga's class at Pepperdine University in early February 2018…
Saturday Webinar: The Cuban Missile Crisis
TAH.org's 3 FEB 18 Cuban Missile Crisis, the '13 days' during which the world seemed…
Documents in Detail: Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism speech
Documents in Detail webinar. The importance of the political context around the speech -…