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Parents, Flappers and Women’s History Month

In honor of women’s history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender

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Vietnam Veterans in American Historical Memory

Early in his first term, President Donald Trump signed the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017, establishing March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans

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Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel

The letters are heartbreaking. Women who had borne three, four, five, or more children in as many years of marriage wrote to Margaret Sanger (1879–1966),

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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. She also

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Applications open March 10th for Fall Multi Day Seminars!

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story; Part 2

Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely Spotlight Gloria Sloan Gloria Reeves Sloan was the oldest of the first three students to integrate Belmont High

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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Why is Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union  one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but it’s

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Bayard Rustin and Nonviolent Resistance: Shaping the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first African American to publicly protest segregation in regional and local transportation systems in the modern civil rights era.  Thirteen years

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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth

One of the many letters Abraham Lincoln received after being elected president in November 1860 was from Alexander Stephens, a former congressional colleague of Lincoln

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

In May of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, finding segregated schools “inherently unequal.” One year later, the Court issued its