HISTORY

The Teaching American History team had a great time at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference in Philadelphia this year! We met a lot of new teachers and loved seeing some familiar faces drop by to check us out.…

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, today we share a document from Dec. 7th, 1941 with you. This primary source, along with thirty-three others about the U.S.’s involvement in WWII, is available in the…

Protesting a Segregated System There were others before her. She was not the first African American woman who refused to surrender her seat on a city bus so a white person could sit down. She was not even the first black female in…

Native Americans, edited by Jace Weaver Professor Jace Weaver‘s recently published core document volume, Native Americans, traces 400 years of the uneasy relationship between the indigenous inhabitants and later claimants to the…

On this day, 59 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX.  The following blog post is an excerpt from MAHG faculty member Stephen Knott’s book, Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy. The birth of modern…

The story of the first Thanksgiving that most of us learned in grade school romanticizes the friendship between the Pilgrims who settled in New England and the indigenous people already occupying the land. Yet there is some truth in the…

“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month…” Is there a U.S. History teacher who hasn’t recited this phrase while discussing World War I and the Armistice that promised its end? There is, however, another date worthy of mention in…

Royce Aldridge did not begin his career as a history teacher. As a freshman at the University of Montana, he fought against a sense of restlessness. Concluding that he lacked focus, he left school to join the Air Force, following the…

Royce Aldridge did not begin his career as a history teacher. As a freshman at the University of Montana, he fought against a sense of restlessness. Concluding that he lacked focus, he left school to join the Air Force, following the…

Native Americans, edited by Jace Weaver The following is an excerpt of our latest CDC volume, Native Americans. Written by volume editor Jace Weaver, it describes the scope and purpose of this particular volume. The utmost good…