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Lonely Dissenter: Jane Addams Reflects on her Peace-making Efforts During World War I
In her essay “Personal Reactions In Time of War,” Jane Addams describes her experience as an opponent of World War I during a time of growing pro-war sentiment in the…
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,…