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Essay

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Eric Foner

Government and Civics, World History

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

In 1877, soon after retiring as president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, embarked with his wife on a two-year tour of the world. At almost every location, he was greeted as a hero. In England, the son of the Duke of...

History Now Essay

An Arduous Path: The Passage and Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Elaine Weiss

As we mark the centennial of women’s constitutional right to vote, we should remember that the Nineteenth Amendment, like the suffrage movement itself, was forced to navigate an arduous path. Even at the endgame, even at the dawn of...

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56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020

Lesson Plan

Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview Since Japanese people began migrating to America in the mid-nineteenth century, there has been resentment and tension between Americans and Asian immigrants. In California at the turn of the century laws were passed making it...

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

History Now welcomes you back to the classroom for another exciting semester engaging the American past. We begin this school year with an issue on early American religion that highlights one of the critical characteristics of our...

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29 | Religion in the Colonial World Fall 2011

History Now Essay

Welcome To The Second Issue of History Now

Carol Berkin

Students often ask: How do historians know what happened in the past? How do they know what Frederick Douglass said about slavery, what Abigail Adams thought about American independence, or what happened at Sutter’s mill? As scholars...

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2 | Primary Sources on Slavery Winter 2004