Meet Our Teacher Partners: Amy Parker
At Teaching American History, we focus on telling America’s story through historical documents because history functions for a nation as memory does for an individual. Without memory, an individual or […]
Documents and Debates: Chapter 1: Early Contact
Looking for thematic primary sources for your classroom? Teaching American History can help! We’ve developed the two-volume Documents and Debates Collection to illustrate the issues at stake in some of the […]
The American Revolution: Robert McDonald’s New CDC Volume
On July 4, 2020, the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a new volume in Ashbrook’s Core Document Collections will appear: The American Revolution. Robert McDonald, Professor of History […]
On the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education II: Implementing a Sweeping Change
This year’s high school seniors understandably feel cheated by the cancellation of graduation ceremonies and other rites of passage due to the coronavirus. Yet as I listen sympathetically, I find […]
Cholera in 19th Century America: Lessons for the Current Pandemic?
When Rebecca McGinnis chose the recurrent cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century as the focus of her Master’s thesis, she saw it as way to understand the history of her […]
Female Education in the Early Republic
Although May and June are often seen as the “end” of the school year in modern America, June of 1787 marked the beginning of the brief existence of the Young […]
1688: The Germantown Quakers Protest Slavery
While the seventeenth century is in the news again this week thanks to the 1619 project, we thought we would draw attention to the efforts of some early American Quakers […]
How MAHG Made Me a Better Teacher—Even During a Pandemic
Teachers enroll in our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program to gain the content knowledge they need to be more effective. They continue for the intellectual […]
The 75th Anniversary of VE Day
8 May 1945 was declared “Victory in Europe Day,” after the remaining leaders of Nazi Germany signed documents accepting their unconditional surrender on 7 May. American and British forces had […]
Federalism and Pandemics: A National Teachable Moment
“Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower burning problems of medicine and beyond – our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize […]