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It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’

October 12, 2019 by Michael E. Ruane for The Washington Post

Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429...

Abigail & John: American History Profoundly Portrayed in a Children’s Book

October 8, 2019

ACTA's Michael Poliakoff joins David Bruce Smith of the Grateful American Foundation and Martha Meehan Cohen of the Supreme Court...

History Matters
October 1 to October 15, 2019

October 1, 2019

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

2019 Grateful American Book Prize Winner Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor

September 25, 2019

For her book "The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor"

2019 Grateful American Book Prize Winner Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor

September 24, 2019

The winner of the 2019 Grateful American Book Prize is Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for “The Beloved World...

‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party

September 23, 2019 by Ronald G. Shafer for The Washington Post

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler

Patriotic Pick for September 2019

Patriotic Picks

September 20, 2019

Whether it’s via their tone, topic, or tenor, certain works just say “America.” Here are three such titles for this...

Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been impeached. His nickname was Old Bacon Face.

September 16, 2019 by Gillian Brockell for The Washington Post

In 1805, Congress tried to remove Samuel Chase from the bench

History Matters
September 16 to September 30, 2019

September 16, 2019

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

To Kill a Mockingbird

September 4, 2019

Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," directed by Tony winner...

Labor Day 2019

September 2, 2019

The Grateful American Foundation wishes every person in America a Labor Day of Leisure.

History Matters
September 1 to September 15, 2019

September 1, 2019

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

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