https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/using-the-digital-atlas/
Oct 21, 2025 - Explore TAH's Digital Atlas and discover how it can enhance your teaching resources while managing your time effectively.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/abrams-v-united-states/
May 29, 2025 - Jacob Abrams was one of five Russian Jewish immigrants seeking asylum. All were fervent socialists and anarchists and defendants in a free speech case in 1919.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/south-carolinas-declaration-of-the-causes-of-secession/
Jun 3, 2025 - After Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 with about 40 per cent of the popular vote, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/reintroducing-causes-of-the-civil-war/
Sep 23, 2025 - Reintroducing Causes of the Civil War - volume of primary documents. Available in our bookstore today! Download your free copy now.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/worcester-v-georgia-2/
Jul 1, 2024 - Marshall’s opinion became a cornerstone for the view that the Indian nations were sovereign powers.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/jennifer-d-keene/
Jan 25, 2023 - Pr. Keene is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/espionage-act/
Aug 21, 2024 - To contain opposition to conscription, the Espionage Act included controversial provisions that criminalized antidraft protests and banned so-called seditious...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/lynch-law-in-america-3/
Jun 28, 2024 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett examined lynchings and concluded that the accusations of criminal activity were pretexts and unjustifiable.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-more-perfect-union/
Jun 27, 2024 - "A More Perfect Union," is Barack Obama's 2008 response to criticisms of his pastor's sociopolitical views on race.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/everybody-ought-to-be-rich/
Aug 29, 2024 - John J. Raskob’s life (1879–1950) was a classic rags-to-riches tale.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/remarks-in-congress-on-the-tariff-of-abominations/
Nov 26, 2024
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/wake-up-america/
Aug 21, 2024 - The Socialist Party was founded in 1901 by Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926), who made a credible run for the presidency in 1912.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-indians-the-ten-lost-tribes/
Jun 27, 2024 - When Columbus returned to Spain at the conclusion of his first voyage in March 1493, he brought with him a number of captive Indians. This caused a problem for...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/andrew-lang/
Feb 14, 2024 - Pr. Lang is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/melissa-m-matthes/
Jan 26, 2023 - Pr. Matthes is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/stephen-f-knott/
Apr 29, 2025 - Pr. Knott is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-ten-hour-system/
May 29, 2025 - Bagley highlighted the ways in which the current factory schedule prevented working women from realizing both Christian and American principles.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/product/american-foreign-policy-to-1899/
Nov 7, 2025 - This volume covers the story of America's foreign relations through the rise of the United States to great power status.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/joseph-r-fornieri/
Feb 15, 2024 - Pr. Fornieri is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/state-of-the-union-address-37/
Sep 19, 2024 - This speech was given during the fourth year of John Quincy Adams' presidency. It was his fourth Annual Message.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/address-delivered-at-seneca-falls/
Aug 21, 2024 - Uncover the groundbreaking speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention, advocating for women's rights and equality.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/state-of-the-union-address-109/
Jun 17, 2024 - This speech was given during the eighth year of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. It was his eighth Annual Message.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/an-address-to-the-country/
Jun 28, 2024 - The Niagara movement was a project of black activists and intellectuals, led by W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963).
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/podcast/has-modern-government-destroyed-the-separation-of-powers/
Jun 1, 2023 - The U.S. Constitution defines three branches of government: the legislative, executive and judicial. Even during the Federal Convention of 1787, delegates...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/dred-scott-v-sandford-50/
Jun 27, 2024 - Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777–1864), writing the opinion of the Court, argued that Scott could not sue because he was not and could never be a citizen of...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-modern-city-and-the-municipal-franchise-for-women/
Jul 1, 2024 - Addams’pragmatic approach was successfully adopted by women’s rights organizations prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/open-letters-to-woodrow-wilson-2/
Jun 28, 2024 - W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, progressive political reformer, and cofounder of the National Association for...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/lecture-delivered-at-franklin-hall-2/
Jun 28, 2024 - Stewart described the lot of both slave and free blacks, focusing particular attention on the effect that prejudice had on free African Americans.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/product/american-revolution/
Nov 15, 2025 - The American Revolution gives voice to the story of the conflict, one that hinged not only on gaining territory but also on winning hearts and minds.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/state-of-the-union-address-58/
Jun 11, 2024 - This speech was given during the second year of Millard Fillmore's presidency. It was his second Annual Message.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/who-and-what-is-a-negro/
Feb 10, 2025 - Learn more about Marcus Garvey and the concept of 'Negro'. Explore the historical context and controversies surrounding this topic.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/sarah-m-burns/
Jan 26, 2023 - In addition to Ashland University, Sarah Burns is a Fellow at the Quincy Institute, and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/lucas-e-morel/
Mar 24, 2025 - Pr. Morel is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-temperance-address-2/
Apr 24, 2025 - Lincoln's Temperance Address is an ideal primary source for a humanities lesson about political rhetoric, or a US history lesson about social reform.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/of-the-faith-of-the-fathers/
Nov 13, 2024
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/eric-c-sands/
Jan 25, 2023 - Pr. Sands is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/mcculloch-v-maryland-3/
Jun 27, 2024 - In a McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall argued that the framers of the Constitution must have intended Congress to have the ability to exercise...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/annual-message-to-congress-5/
Jul 1, 2024 - In his Annual Message, Polk celebrated the gains he had achieved—which had been made even more important by the discovery of gold deposits in California.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/natalie-fuehrer-taylor/
Feb 16, 2024 - Pr. Taylor is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://www.learningforjustice.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/classroom-videos
In these short streaming films, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement, explain critical concepts, and...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/dred-scott-v-sandford-2/
Jun 3, 2025 - Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom after his former master took him to live where slavery was outlawed, first, in the free state of Illinois and, later,...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/courtney-reiner/
Feb 13, 2025 - Contact Courtney Reiner to set up educator professional development for civics and history in the upper Midwest.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/whitney-v-california/
May 29, 2025 - Charlotte Anita Whitney was prosecuted under a CA criminal syndicalism law for her association with the socialists.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/podcast/executive-power-and-the-modern-presidency/
Jun 1, 2023 - Join our scholars for a moderated conversation about how the use of executive power has changed over time. Topic: "What are the limits of executive power?
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/let-my-people-go/
Jun 27, 2024 - Carlos Montezuma (c. 1866–1923) was a Yavapai, though he referred to himself as Apache. Captured as a child by Pima Indians (today known by their own name,...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/faculty-staff/eric-pullin/
Jan 25, 2023 - Pr. Pulling is a faculty member at TAH and in Ashland University’s Master’s in American History & Government program.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/marriage-protest/
Jun 28, 2024 - Blackwell read their joint “protest” out loud to the assembled witnesses. Stone’s retention of her maiden name inspired a fad among reform-minded women.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/muller-v-oregon/
Jul 16, 2024 - Because the state has a compelling interest in protecting women, laws restricting their working hours were not an undue imposition on their liberties.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-4/
Mar 12, 2024 - Douglass’ speeches expressed the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to southern slaveholders, but also to anyone...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/appeal-to-christian-women-of-the-south-2/
Jun 28, 2024 - Angelina Grimké (1805–1879) strikes a note of loving concern mingled with informed instruction and reproof in this letter to her slaveholding sisters in the...
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/state-of-the-union-address-28/
Jun 6, 2024 - This speech was given during the second year of James Monroe's presidency. It was his second Annual Message.
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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/enter-the-new-negro/
Sep 24, 2024 - Harlem, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, New York City, became a thriving hub of African American culture and politics in the 1920s.
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