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The Attack on Pearl Harbor in Two Documents
December 7th, 1941, marked the forced entry of the United States into World War II. Although the war in Europe had been going on since September 1939, and in East…
LBJ’s Birthday: 27 August
27 August of 2017 marks the 109th birthday of Lyndon Baynes Johnson, our 34th president.…
Session 30 pt2: The Reagan Era and the New Deal Legacy; George W. Bush’s Founding Faith
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+30+pt2+Kesler.mp3 Focus Reagan seemed to campaign against Roosevelt's legacy, but delighted in pointing out that…
Session 30 pt1: Martin Luther King, Jr; Malcolm X
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+30+pt1+Morel.mp3 Focus Does King's proposal for a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" indicate a…
Session 29: Brown v. Board of Education; Martin Luther King, Jr., Non-Violent Resistance, and the American Dream
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+29+Morel.mp3 Focus In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court briefly traces the history of…
Session 28: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+28+J+Williams.mp3 Focus What role did Thurgood Marshall play in the Civil Rights Movement? What was…
Session 27: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Democratic Leadership
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+27+Kesler.mp3 Focus The political and constitutional legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt is impressive. What was…
Session 26: The Progressive Reform and Self-Government
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+26+Kesler.mp3 Focus The Progressives fought for reform at the turn of the century. What principled…
Session 25: Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. Du Bois
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+25+Morel.mp3 Focus What did Washington believe were the most urgent priorities for blacks at the…
Session 24: The Modern Era Confronts the American Founding
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+24+Morel+and+Kesler.mp3 Focus What did the American founding and Civil War look like to politicians and…
Session 23: Frederick Douglass – Reconstruction and the Future of Black Americans
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+23+Morel.mp3 Focus How did Douglass answer the question, "What Country Have I?" What was his…
Session 22: “A New Birth of Freedom” and Lincoln’s Re-Election
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+22+Morel.mp3 Focus Why does Lincoln call "all men are created equal" a "proposition" instead of…
Session 21: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+21+Guelzo.mp3 Focus The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave under the authority of…
Session 20: Lincoln and Civil Liberties
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+20+Morel.mp3 Focus Lincoln claimed to be fighting a war that would lead to "a new…
Session 19: Lincoln’s Election, Secession, and the Civil War
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+19+Guelzo.mp3 Focus As Lincoln recounts the early history of the federal government, what authority did…
Session 18: The Rights and Wrongs of Secession
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+18+Morel.mp3 Focus What reasons did Southern secession commissioners give for seceding from the Union? What…
Session 17: The Causes of the Civil War
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+17+McPherson.mp3 Focus Why did the South secede? Why did secession lead to war? For a…
Session 16: Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+16+Guelzo.mp3 Focus Contrast Lincoln's understanding of the relation between public opinion and political rule with…
Session 15: Lincoln Confronts Stephen Douglas’s Popular Sovereignty
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+15+Guelzo.mp3 Focus What does Stephen Douglas mean by "popular sovereignty"? Why does Lincoln view the…
Session 14: Abolitionism and Constitutional Self-Government
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+14+Guelzo.mp3 Focus According to Garrison, what is wrong with gradual abolition of slavery? Does he…
Session 13: The Rule of Law, Slavery, and the Future of Self-Government
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+13+Morel.mp3 Focus What is "reverence for the laws" and why does Lincoln think it is…
Session 12: Lincoln and 21st-Century America
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+12+Morel+and+Guelzo.mp3 Focus In the face of modern-day critics from both the Right and the Left,…
Session 11: The Federalist Papers – Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+11+Flannery.mp3 Focus What qualities did Publius expect or take for granted in the American people…
Session 10: The Federalist Papers – The Sum of Power and the Separation of Powers
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+10+Morel.mp3 Focus What is "delicate" about the two questions raised at the end ofFederalist 43? "The…
Session 9: The Proposed Constitution of 1787 and Its Defense in The Federalist Papers
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+9+Flannery.mp3 Focus What is the structure of the argument of The Federalist? What improvements in…
Session 8: The Constitution and American Self-Government
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+8+Morel.mp3 Focus How does the Constitution work? How do constitutional means produce constitutional ends? How…
Session 7: The Constitutional Convention pt3 – The Committee of Detail Report and the Close of the Convention
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+7+Lloyd.mp3 Focus Who was elected to the Committee of Detail and what has been their…
Session 6: The Constitutional Convention pt2 – The Connecticut Compromise
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+6+Lloyd.mp3 Focus What accounts for the persistence of the New Jersey Plan supporters despite their…
Session 5: The Constitutional Convention, pt1 – The Alternative Plans
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+5+Lloyd.mp3 Focus Of what significance were the rules adopted by the Convention? In what respects…
Session 4: The Revolutionary Era
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+4+Fischer.mp3 Focus How did the American colonists define liberty and freedom as they sought to…
Session 3: The American Mind, Part 2
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+3+Morel.mp3 Focus The political logic of the argument of the Declaration, continued: Further reflections on…
Session 2: The American Mind, Part 1
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+2.mp3 Focus Thomas Jefferson wrote that in drafting the Declaration of Independence he meant to…
Session 1: Intro and the “Apple of Gold”: – The Centrality of the Declaration of Independence in American Political Life
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Introduction+Peter+Schramm.mp3 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+1+pt1+Flannery.mp3 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/presidential-academy/Session+1+pt2+Morel.mp3 Focus Why is it important to understand the Declaration of Independence? What…
Presidential Academy: The Declaration of Independence and the American Founding
TeachingAmericanHistory.org is proud to offer the first 11 of 30 sessions of our Presidential Academy…
Presidential Academy: A full course in American History
Presidential Academy, a program run by the Ashbrook Center for teachers and held in Philadelphia,…