History Resources

Martha Washington Creates the Role of First Lady

Essay

Patricia Brady

Government and Civics

Betty Ford: A New Kind of First Lady

Essay

Gil Troy

Suggested Resources on Title IX from the Archivist

Essay

Mary-Jo Kline

"No Event Could Have Filled Me with Greater Anxieties": George Washington and the First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

Essay

Phillip Hamilton

Government and Civics

A More Perfect Union? Barack Obama and the Politics of Unity

Essay

Thomas J. Sugrue

Government and Civics

FDR’s First Inaugural Address

Essay

Davis W. Houck

Economics, Government and Civics

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural

Essay

Lewis E. Lehrman

Government and Civics

John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

Essay

Michael Nelson

Government and Civics

Sharing a Civil War Photo with a Million People

Essay

Garry E. Adelman

Art

"The Brave Men, Living and Dead": Common Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg

Essay

Robert Bonner