HISTORY

A conversation with Joseph Fornieri and David Tucker, Continued This is the second part of our edited interview of Joseph Fornieri and David Tucker, who collaborated to edit TAH’s new document collection, Abraham Lincoln. Last week…
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A conversation with Joseph Fornieri and David Tucker Teaching American History has released a new document collection, Abraham Lincoln: Core Documents. A compilation of Lincoln’s most important speeches, letters, and private…
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A poem that went on to be adopted as the “black national anthem” – “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” – was first publicly performed 122 years ago, at a community event celebrating Lincoln’s birthday in Jacksonville, Florida. The event took…
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Hiram Rhodes Revels On February 25, 1870, the first African American ever elected to the office of Senator was sworn in. Hiram Rhodes Revels was elected by the Republican-dominated Mississippi legislature to fill out the unexpired…
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Ryan DeMarco tells his APUSH students what he learned at a Teaching American History Seminar about the Dred Scott decision. Ryan DeMarco, VA High School history and government teacher Visiting the Teaching American History…
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TAH’s Saturday Webinar for 2 April 2022, and the fourth in our Populists and Progressives series for Spring 2022. This episode will focus on the changing views on and understandings of democracy, republicanism, and the structural and…
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In the years leading up to World War II, Churchill spoke openly of the threat to European liberty posed by Nazism and other emerging authoritarian governments. A Threat to European Liberty In the two years before the outbreak…
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Sources for Educators In light of recent events, we’ve chosen to highlight a program that took place several years ago, but still feels relevant today. This special webinar event originally took place on Wednesday, 1 April 2020.…
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Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Supreme Court Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, September 6, 1936, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-hec-47251. President Roosevelt was outraged when the Supreme Court invalidated two of the most…
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Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” Plan For many students, the “Fireside Chat on the Reorganization of the Judiciary” (more memorably recalled as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan”) brings up, for the first time in their study of…
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