Video Slavery and the Making of America Government and Civics James Oliver Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, and Lois E. Horton, Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, have collaborated on several books,...
Program/Event Dear George Washington Contest Winners 2013 First Prize Madeline Scanlon , Friends Academy, Locust Valley, NY Second Prize Rashawn Wilson , Shuman Elementary School, Savannah, GA Third Prize Zane Martin , Dailey Charter Elementary School, Fresno, CA Fourth Prize Ethan Yan , The...
Video In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 Religion and Philosophy Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, examines the Salem witchcraft crisis from a seventeenth-century perspective, drawing not only on court records, but also on correspondence and...
News The Origins of Veterans Day This year, in conjunction with the WWI and America project and the upcoming 100-year anniversary of America’s entry in WWI, we look at the origins of Veterans Day as a day to commemorate veterans of the Great War. On November 11, 1919...
Video Understanding Slavery via Narratives Literature James Oliver Horton speaks about slave narratives as an important resource for understanding American history.
History Now Essay The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women’s Suffrage Judith Wellman Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On July 19–20, 1848, about 300 people met for two hot days and candlelit evenings in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, in the first formal women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Sixty-eight women ... Appears in: 7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006