History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin Jewish Americans have made contributions to American society that far exceed their percentage of our country’s population. This is a minority culture that has touched every aspect of American society, from the arts, to medicine and... Appears in: 71 | The Jewish Legacy in American History Summer 2024
Essay The Development of the West Ned Blackhawk In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary...
History Now Essay Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Thousands of Women Were Elected to Political Office before 1920 Wendy E. Chmielewski Government and Civics In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the well-known leader of the woman’s rights movement, declared her intention to run for Congress, from Brooklyn, New York. Stanton was probably the first woman to campaign for a federal office. It... Appears in: 47 | American Women in Leadership Winter 2017
History Now Essay Ralph W. Kirkham: A Christian Soldier in the US-Mexican War Amy S. Greenberg World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ North of Mexico’s border, most Americans know the 1846 conflict that established that boundary (if they know it at all) as the training ground for Civil War heroes. Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, and... Appears in: 43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015
History Now Essay The Lion of All Occasions: The Great Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Manisha Sinha On February 24, 1844, the Liberator printed an admiring report on Frederick Douglass’s “masterly and impressive” speech in Concord, New Hampshire. The fugitive slave was the master of his audience. Douglass, the writer fantasized, was... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018