News Kevin Cline on GLI History School's "US Constitution: Looking Backward from 2021 to 1787" Kevin Cline, who taught the Summer 2020 History School course “The United States, 1492–1865,” returns to History School this spring with “ The US Constitution: Looking Backward from 2021 to 1787 .” This course focuses on key aspects...
History Now Essay Jamestown and the Founding of English America James Horn Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Shortly before Christmas 1606, three small ships left London’s Blackwall docks to establish a settlement on Chesapeake Bay, in North America. The largest of the ships, the heavily armed, 120-ton merchantman Susan Constant , carried... Appears in: 12 | The Age Of Exploration Summer 2007
History Now Essay The League of Women Voters: A Century of Voter Engagement Barbara Winslow The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by American suffragists, just months before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote after more than seventy years of struggle. Over... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020