History Resources

Douglass and Lincoln: A Convergence

Essay

James Oakes

"I, Too": Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation

Essay

Steven Tracy

Literature

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

"The New Colossus": Emma Lazarus and the Immigrant Experience

Essay

Julie Des Jardins

Literature

"Half slave, half free": Lincoln and the "House Divided"

Essay

Gabor S. Boritt

Government and Civics

"To give all a chance": Lincoln, Abolition, and Economic Freedom

Essay

Lewis E. Lehrman

Government and Civics

"That glorious consummation": Lincoln on the Abolition of Slavery

Essay

Allen C. Guelzo

Government and Civics

Disasters and the Politics of Memory

Essay

Kevin Rozario

Government and Civics

"One of those monstrosities of nature": The Galveston Storm of 1900

Essay

Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919

Essay

Carol Byerly

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

Everyone’s Backyard: The Love Canal Chemical Disaster

Essay

Amy M. Hay

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math