Themes & Threads: Constitution
Cato No. 5
Source: The New-York Journal, November 22, 1787. But with respect to the first objection, it…
Debates on the Legislative Branch
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
A. Lydia Maria Child, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, and John Brown, Correspondence, October 1859…
Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?
A. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, December 6, 1833 The Convention assembled in the…
Chapter 7: The Debate over Ratification
A.(Robert Yates), Brutus I, October 18, 1787 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch7/ch7+Brutus+I.mp3 . . . We have felt the…
Chapter 6: Revolutionary Considerations of Citizenship and Self-Government
A.John Adams to Abigail Adams and James Sullivan, March 31–May 26, 1776 Abigail Adams to…
Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases
Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
One-Day Seminar: Supreme Court Cases That Changed America hosted by Fayette County Schools (Fayetteville, GA)
While many Supreme Court cases have shaped American policies and history, this seminar explores cases…
Democratic Party Platforms
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the American People
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Poster Advertising Sale of a “Valuable Gang of Young Negroes”
Source: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, https://repository.duke.edu/dc/broadsides/bdsla10566.
Distribution of the Slave Population by State
Source: Henry S. Graham Washington, 1861. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447026/.
One-Day Seminar: The Constitution and Federalist Papers, hosted by the Nevada Department of Education (Las Vegas, NV)
Join teachers from the Las Vegas area for TAH's first Seminar in Nevada, to be…
One-Day Seminar: TR, Wilson, and the Progressive Reformers, hosted by Hays CISD (ONLINE)
Study the Progressive Era through the words and ideas of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and…
One-Day Seminar: The Constitution and Limited Government, hosted by Hays CISD (ONLINE)
Study the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other documents from America's political history as you…
One Day Seminar: Documents and Debates – the Constitutional Ratification Debate, hosted by Canyons School District (Salt Lake City area, UT)
Join teachers from the Salt Lake City area to dive deeply into the ideas and…
One-Day Seminar: Lincoln and the Problems of Reconstruction, hosted by the Missouri Humanities Council (Kansas City, MO) [MOVED ONLINE]
Study the problems that faced Abraham Lincoln regarding a reconstructed Union before, during, and after…
One-Day Seminar: The Federalist Papers and the Debate Over the Constitution, hosted by the USS Midway Museum (San Diego, CA)
Join area teachers to study the debate over the creation and ratification of the Constitution,…