Video Early American Slave Culture Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In this lecture, historian Philip D. Morgan compares the Lowcountry and Chesapeake slave cultures and reveals much about the way of life of some of the earliest African Americans. Although South Carolina in the eighteenth century was...
Video The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History
History Now Essay The Presidential Election of 1800: A Story of Crisis, Controversy, and Change Joanne B. Freeman Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Nasty political mud-slinging. Campaign attacks and counterattacks. Personal insults. Outrageous newspaper invective. Dire predictions of warfare and national collapse. Innovative new forms of politicking capitalizing on a growing... Appears in: 1 | Elections Fall 2004
History Now Essay "The Authentic Voice of Today": Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton Elizabeth L. Wollman Art "The show is the first Broadway musical in some time to have the authentic voice of today rather than the day before yesterday." The comment above could easily have been written about Hamilton , but it was written long before Hamilton... Appears in: 44 | Alexander Hamilton in the American Imagination Winter 2016
Program/Event NEH Summer Institute for K–8 Educators March 1 The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction Dates: July 11–17, 2021 Location: Virtual Seminar Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction was a virtual, weeklong 2021 Summer...
History Now Essay Yellow Fever 1793 Richard Brookhiser Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Late in August 1793 Philadelphia was struck by a strange and virulent disease. Patients developed aches, chills, and fever, vomited black bile, and turned yellow. Some recovered, but many died. The yellow fever, as it was called, had... Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020