History Now Essay From The Editor Carol Berkin As the editor of History Now, let me welcome you back to another year in the classroom. What better way to start the year than with an issue on The American West? Of course, for many students, mention of "The West" conjures up popular... Appears in: 9 | The American West Fall 2006
Spotlight on: Primary Source Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, 1775 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In April 1775, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore and Virginia’s royal governor, threatened to free slaves and reduce the capital, Williamsburg, to ashes if the colonists rebelled against British authority. In the months that followed,...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Japan declares war, 1941 World History 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On December 7, 1941, two hours after the Japanese attack on American military installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Japan declared war on the United States and Great Britain, marking America’s entry into World War II. The Japanese...
History Now Essay From The Editor Carol Berkin Abolition, temperance, women's rights, utopian experiments, religious revivalism, prison, asylum, and even diet reform: Readers of this list know right away that they have been transported to the 1830s and '40s, America's first great ... Appears in: 5 | Abolition Fall 2005
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
History Now Essay From the President James G. Basker With its refrain “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton reminds us of the fundamental importance of authorship and ownership in shaping our national memory. Systematically excluded on the basis of... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News Celebrating Veterans Day with Classroom Resources Originally known as Armistice Day, Veterans Day occurs on November 11 in honor of the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918 that marked the end of World War I. In 1954, the name of the holiday was changed...
Video Calvin Coolidge and Economic Growth Economics, Government and Civics 10, 11, 12, 13+ Amity Shlaes, chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and author of Coolidge (2013), discusses Calvin Coolidge and his economic policies during a seminar for history teachers in Wichita, Kansas. ...