TAH.org is doing a trial run of making recorded readings of essential original documents available online. These documents, selected from our library and various documents collections, are read verbatim from our collection, meaning that students can follow along, word-for-word. Each document will be preceded by a short introduction identifying the author, and providing some background information to help contextualize the piece. This first recording is of the Declaration of Independence, among the most imp

The 2018-19 season of TAH.org's Saturday Webinars got off to a great start on 18 August with our first episode, Patriots vs. Loyalists, in which our scholars dug deeply into the political, social, and economic rifts that grew between neighbors and even within families during the American War for Independence. Access the full program archive page here, and check out our podcast options below. Also, be sure to download the free PDF copies of our Documents and Debates volumes, which form the foundation of th

"You can't understand American History without understanding the role of religion in our history and politics..." TAH.org's Core American Documents collection on Religion in American History and Politics is now available on Kindle, iTunes eBook, PDF, and print on demand. This volume, the companion to TAH.org's Religion in America site, includes 25 documents with summaries and annotations, an introduction to the theme of religion as a part of American history and politics, appendices with additional informa

[podcast] Today's podcast includes an interview with Dr. Jennifer Keene, of Chapman University and president of the Society for Military History. Dr. Keene is the volume editor for our new World War 2 Core American Documents volume, and has some interesting things to say about how she went about selecting documents, trying to keep the number and length manageable, while trying to do such an enormous event as WW2, from multiple perspectives, the justice it deserves. This volume of our Core American Docume

The best way to study the advantages and disadvantages of compromise is to study the Constitutional Convention - through documents. The third volume of the American History and Government Core Documents Collections – the Constitutional Convention – is available on Kindle, iTunes and PDF. Hard copies are also available for $10 each - email [email protected] if you would like a copy. You can also buy it on Amazon! Sign up for early access to each volume! This collection of documents on the Constitut

The Great Depression and New Deal can be more easily understood by thinking of it as a story in six parts. Today's interview is with Dr. John Moser, Professor of History at Ashland University and editor of the Core Documents volume on the Great Depression and New Deal. A complex and multi-faceted event that played out over a more than a decade, it can be understood by thinking of it as having taken place in six parts, chronologically: Hoover and the Great Depression Hoover vs. Roosevelt: The Election of 19

The last episode in TAH.org's 2017-18 Documents in Detail webinar series, focused on Ronald Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech. Often referred to as "The Speech," is was a persuasive, articulate, and powerful endorsement of then-Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater, and despite Goldwater's loss that November, helped to propel Reagan to the forefront of national politics, keeping him in the public eye as he sought and won the governorship of California, went on to unsuccessfull

The latest volumes of our Core American Documents Collections – Documents and Debates – are now available! TAH.org and professors Rob McDonald and LTC Seanegan Sculley from the History Department at the United States Military Academy at West Point worked together to create a two-volume set of documents readers, which starting in Fall 2018, will be used by all West Point cadets in their two-semester American History survey course. These volumes are structured around a series of topics, each based on a d

The latest volumes of  our Core American Documents Collections – Documents and Debates – are now available! TAH.org and professors Rob McDonald and LTC Seanegan Sculley from the History Department at the United States Military Academy at West Point worked together to create a two-volume set of documents readers, which starting in Fall 2018, will be used by all West Point cadets in their two-semester American History survey course. These volumes are structured around a series of topics, each based on a

TAH.org's last Saturday Webinar for the 2017-18 school year, today we focused on the 444 day long crisis in which 52 American embassy workers were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries and held for over a year, bringing to a head conflict between that country's new rulers and the United States, and likely contributing to the downfall of President Jimmy Carter. Relevant to the ongoing friction and sometimes hostility between the quasi-theocracy of Iran and the United States, this crisis ended with Ronald