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Get to Know Sergio de Alba, 2020 National History Teacher of the Year

Sergio de Alba, a teacher at R. M. Miano Elementary School in Los Baños, California, was named the 2020 National History Teacher of the Year and will be honored in a recorded ceremony on October 7, 2020. Register here for A Tribute to...

History Now Essay

Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

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58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020

History Now Essay

The Importance of Studying Disasters: Ideas and Advice for the Classroom

Liz Skilton

I was sitting in Algebra when I heard the news that an incident had occurred in New York City. My history teacher, Mr. Turner, appeared suddenly at the door—interrupting the Pythagorean theorem lesson—to say that something was...

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58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020

History Now Essay

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Carol Berkin

A disaster often reveals as much about the society wrestling with it as it does about its origins and its physical effects. If scientists focus on the source of the danger—a virus, bacteria, climatic shifts, or disease-carrying...

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58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020

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Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793

The new republic was only four years old, its capital recently established in Philadelphia, when the country suffered its first catastrophic epidemic. Yellow fever broke out in August 1793 and ravaged the city for three months, only...

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The Map Proves It, ca. 1919

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Supporters of women’s rights used maps such as the one shown here to demonstrate where women were allowed to vote, when they won that right, and which elections they could vote in. The source of this map is unknown. Originally printed...

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An appeal for suffrage support, 1871

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The National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee was formed in the spring of 1871. The Washington DC-based committee pledged to act as the “centre of all action upon Congress and the country.” The group was also dedicated to the...

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Voting restrictions for African Americans, 1944

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In 1944 a group of southern editors and writers documented cases of voter suppression in southern states. They took this step because, in the presidential election of 1944, only 28 percent of potential voters in the South participated...

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Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper: Sedition charges, 1815

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Even though the Sedition Act of 1798 had expired in 1801, individuals could still be charged with sedition. On January 20, 1815, Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper, publishers of the Massachusetts newspaper The Yankee , printed an article...

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The Sedition Act, 1798

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On August 14, 1798, the Columbian Centinel , a Boston newspaper aligned with the Federalist Party, printed this copy of the Sedition Act. It was the last in a series of legislation known as the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by the...

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Get to Know Sergio de Alba, 2020 National History Teacher of the Year

Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker

The Importance of Studying Disasters: Ideas and Advice for the Classroom

From the Editor

Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793

The Map Proves It, ca. 1919

An appeal for suffrage support, 1871

Voting restrictions for African Americans, 1944

Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper: Sedition charges, 1815

The Sedition Act, 1798

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