Lesson Plan The Battle of Gettysburg through Union and Confederate Eyes 5 Click here to download this two-lesson unit.
Program/Event Book Breaks April 28 Every Sunday at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) Upcoming Book Breaks April April 28 - James G. Basker on Black Writers of the Founding Era Inspired by the struggle for independence, Black Americans made bold, insightful contributions to...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: The Surrender of Robert E. Lee 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ “I ask a suspension of hostilities pending the discussion of the Terms of surrender of this army.” —Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865 Shortly before noon on April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent a message to Union General...
Essay African Americans and Emancipation Manisha Sinha Historians increasingly understand emancipation was not a singular event that simply involved the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Instead, emancipation is better understood as...
History Now Essay Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals James Oliver Horton Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ James O. Horton was the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at George Washington University and historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. He edited,... Appears in: 13 | The Constitution Fall 2007 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020