Program/Event Traveling Exhibitions | Who Can Vote? A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US > This exhibition examines voting rights with an emphasis on the role of the US Constitution and the interplay between the states and federal government in determining who is allowed to vote. Beginning with the founding...
Lesson Plan Who Was John Brown? Government and Civics 6, 7, 8 "Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic." —Frederick Douglass Background The late 1840s and the 1850s were a turbulent and complex time in American history as the...
Program/Event Who Will Tell Your Story? Get Creative with EduHam Have you seen other students’ performance pieces from the Hamilton Education Program and wondered, “How do I do that?” In this class, we will look at primary source documents on the Hamilton Education Program website and find their...
History Now Essay Why Are They There?: The Confederate Statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection Bess Beatty Art December finally brought the tumultuous year of 1857 to a close. The ongoing crisis in "bleeding" Kansas and the pro-southern Dred Scott decision handed down by the Supreme Court earlier in the year had further fractured political... Appears in: 45 | American History in Visual Art Summer 2016
Spotlight on: Primary Source Why Black men fought in World War I, 1919 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 During World War I, approximately 370,000 black men in the US military served in segregated regiments and were often relegated to support duties such as digging trenches, transporting supplies, cleaning latrines, and burying the dead....
Interactive Why Documents Matter: An Interactive Digital Edition Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History Welcome to Why Documents Matter: An Interactive Digital Edition —a selection of primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection curated and annotated for K–12 classrooms (print edition available here ). Scroll through the entire...
History Now Essay Why I Embrace the Term Latinx Ed Morales When I first saw the word Latinx —best described as a gender-neutral term to designate US residents of Latin American descent—in print it seemed awkward and hard to pronounce. But rather than giving in to my first instinct, I came to... Appears in: 53 | The Hispanic Legacy in American History Winter 2019
History Now Essay Why Immigration Matters Thomas Kessner 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ It is difficult today to recapture the iconoclasm signaled by Oscar Handlin’s opening words to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Uprooted more than fifty years ago: "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I... Appears in: 3 | Immigration Spring 2005
History Now Essay Why Sports History Is American History Mark Naison 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In the classroom, examples from sports can explain key events in American history and help explore how people in American society have grappled with racial, ethnic, and regional differences in our very diverse nation. Whether it is... Appears in: 23 | Turning Points in American Sports Spring 2010
History Now Essay Why They Marched: Rank and File Perspectives on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Susan Ware In 1914, a Massachusetts woman named Claiborne Catlin decided to ride across the state on horseback to rally support for women’s suffrage. All of her personal belongings, including a khaki jacket and divided skirt donated by Filene’s... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
History Now Essay Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change Linda R. Monk Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ "We the People?" asked Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention to ratify the new Constitution in 1788. "Who authorized them to speak the language of ‘We the People,’ instead of ‘We the States’?" [1] Looking back, we can be grateful... Appears in: 13 | The Constitution Fall 2007