The Importance of Gettysburg | Teaching American History
General Gouverneur K. Warren saw the problem in a flash, the flash of Confederate bayonets threatening the Army of the Potomac’s position on Cemetery...
Debating Lincoln’s Leadership | Teaching American 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,...
Multi-Day Seminar Examines the Failure of Reconstruction and Rise of Jim Crow in the...
At a recent TAH multiday seminar on “The Failure of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow,” teachers from around the country gathered...
Lincoln: Bridging the Founding and Our Own Time
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...
Lincoln’s Apple of Gold | Teaching American History
The image featured on the cover of TAH’s new document volume, Abraham Lincoln, might puzzle the casual observer. Why a golden apple in...
The Fight for a Federal Anti-Lynching Law
Over 122 years of effort preceded the passage of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, signed into law by President Biden on March 29,...
Hiram Rhodes Revels: The First Black Senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels
On February 25, 1870, the first African American ever elected to the office of Senator was sworn in. Hiram Rhodes Revels...
The Central Intelligence Act of 1949
The views in this post are those of the author and do not represent the policy or position of the National Defense University,...
Introducing 50 Core American Documents, 2nd. Edition
50 Core American Docs: An Introduction
50 Core American Documents is an introduction to both American history and to the Core Documents project of...
Cuban Missile Crisis: 60 Years Later
Growing up in a house of Cuban exiles, there are certain things you become accustomed to—strong coffee, plantains, and an endless history lesson...
