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100 Years After…Women Got the Right to Vote

August 25, 2020

Abigail Adams advised her husband, John, to "Remember the Ladies" and the Suffrage Movement was--unbeknownst to her--begun. August 26, 2020...

Jane Hampton Cook on America’s Suffragists:
100 Years Later

August 24, 2020

Cook discusses her book, "Resilience on Parade: Short Stories from Suffragists and Women’s Battle for the Vote." Listen to the...

Suffrage at 100: A Visual History

August 19, 2020

The fight for the vote was the fight for democracy. No history can sum it all up. But these images...

“My Dearest Friend/Miss Adorable”

August 16, 2020 by David Bruce Smith

A Blog About Abigail and John, Part 4: This is the fourth part of a continuing series of blog posts...

History Matters
August 16 to August 31, 2020

August 16, 2020

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

Patriotic Pick for August 2020

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

August 14, 2020

Whether it’s via their tone, topic, or tenor, certain works just say “America.”

Yes, Even George Washington Can Be Redeemed

George Washington’s achievements are well known—winning independence, presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and serving as the first president. While we...

History Matters
August 1 to August 15, 2020

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

Reimagining Civic Education for the Digital Age

Justice O'Connor and video games may seem an odd couple, but she bought in.

An 1869 Poem Written by Kathleen O’Mara

Reprinted during 1919 Pandemic

Remembering Olivia de Havilland
(1916- 2020)

The unforgettable "Melanie Wilkes" in "Gone With The Wind"

Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life. In Death, He Returned One Last Time.

The body of John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, more than a half century after he helped...

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