Spotlight on: Primary Source The massacre of American Indian allies, 1818 Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On April 23, 1818, Captain Obed Wright of the Georgia militia ordered an attack on a Chehaw village, which resulted in the slaughter of several American Indians. In a letter written a week after the attack, Brigadier General Thomas...
History Now Essay African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment Sharon Harley Government and Civics Sharon Harley is Associate Professor and former Chair of the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She and historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn co-edited the pioneer anthology The Afro-American... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
Video American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ James G. Basker (Barnard College, Columbia University) discusses his latest book, American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (The Library of America, 2012). Basker, who is also the president of the Gilder...