Today's Documents in Detail webinar focused on Dr. Martin Luther King jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," which was delivered on the heels of a Congressional filibuster that had been started to block civil rights legislation. With input from our two scholars and moderator, we explored the ideas expressed in the speech, language employed, reception and meaning of the seminal piece, and took a number of interesting questions from our teacher audience. Access the full program archive page Tunes Podcast Podcast RS

The latest volume of  our Core American Documents Collections – the Cold War – is now available! Get your copy on iTunes, Kindle, and PDF. Hard copies are also available for $10 each – email [email protected] if you would like a copy, or you can buy it on Amazon. Sign up for early access to each upcoming volume! What does the man on the moon and high school teachers having to take loyalty oaths have in common? Listen to today's podcast and find out... Today's podcast includes a conversation wi

TAH.org's 7 APril 2018 Saturday Webinar was about Watergate, and the ensuing political and seeming constitutional crisis that ensued. Panelists discussed the background of the break-in that led to the crisis, but also talked a great deal about Nixon's background, his views on Democrats and other Republicans, and how his experiences and personality contributed to his actions as president. Questions from teachers included those about presidential powers as related to subpoenas, how precedents established pla

Wednesday 21 March's webinar focused on the Long Telegram, the famous George Kennan communique from Moscow in 1946, on which so much of American foreign policy after World War 2 was based. Scholars discussed the origins of the telegram, the context around events in Moscow and Washington in the year after the war, and why Kennan wrote it in the first place. They discussed how the U.S. government received the news from Kennan, as well as how Kennan framed and explained himself over time, even to the point of

Saturday, 3 March 2018's TAH.org teacher webinar was about Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. The violent response to a peaceful Civil Rights march on 7 March 1965, televised and immortalized in pictures, helped to spotlight the injustice of segregation and racially discriminatory systems of law and social norms found throughout the South at the time. Although other crises in this series were political or security-focused in nature, what happened in Selma has a far more distinctly moral crisis, as it was mad

TeachingAmericanHistory.org's Documents in Detail webinar for Wednesday, 21 FEB 2018 focused on FDR's Commonwealth Club Address, seen as his closing argument to America late in the 1932 election campaign, and as the foundational document for understanding his policies and actions as president. Access the full archive page here. iTunes Podcast Podcast RSS The post Documents in Detail: FDR’s Commonwealth Club Address appeared first on Teaching American History.

Dr. Gordon Lloyd visited Dr. Jeff Sikkenga's class at Pepperdine University in early February 2018 to talk about the origins of the Bill of Rights, with particular focus on the First Amendment, and the two religion clauses. Dr. Lloyd also used his online exhibit on the Bill of Rights to help students dig deeply into the documentary and historical origins of the rights protected in the Bill of Rights. The post Special Video Presentation: Gordon Lloyd at Pepperdine on the Bill of Rights appeared first on Tea

TAH.org's 3 FEB 18 Saturday Webinar looked deeply into the Cuban Missile Crisis, the '13 days' during which the world seemed to teeter on the bring of nuclear war. How did this crisis come into being? How was evidence of the missiles discovered, and verified? What was the nature of the crisis - that is, were there people within JFK's inner circle who saw it differently than it is typically portrayed? How did the upcoming midterm elections factor into decision-making and internal analysis by Kennedy and hi