HISTORY

This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith, was first posted on July 16, 2020. We rerun it today in honor of the 175th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19th, 1848.…

Brady National Photographic Art Gallery, and Gouverneur Kemble Warren. Carte d’ visite: Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, -1882. General Gouverneur K. Warren saw the problem in a flash, the flash of Confederate bayonets threatening the Army…

President Richard Nixon. National Archives. Apart from Richard Nixon’s two-armed-victory-fingered-wave goodbye atop the steps of Marine One preparing to depart the South Lawn of the White House in his final hours as president, John…

The views in this post are those of the author and do not represent the policy or position of the National Defense University, the Department of Defense, or the United States Government. The Central Intelligence Act of 1949, passed…

As pivotal a constitutional event as it was,  the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of slavery initially accomplished less than its supporters had hoped — substantially due to President Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson’s opposition to…

Did you know? Teaching American History partners with Ashland University to offer weeklong summer graduate courses that combine quality instruction with the opportunity to become part of a community of those who love to both learn and…

Professor Brent Aucoin of the College of Southeastern specializes in post-Civil War Southern history, race relations and American religious history. At a recent TAH multiday seminar on “The Failure of Reconstruction and the Rise of…

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”  It’s a simple rhyme, taught to thousands of young children when most history instruction focused on names and dates. This simple lesson ignores the broader story of Christopher Columbus’s…

Gordon Lloyd Word has reached us of the death of our long-time colleague and friend, Gordon Lloyd. Gordon was born in England, raised in Trinidad, and became a naturalized American citizen after coming to the United States for…

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