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The Musical ‘1776’ Will Return to Broadway in 2021

May 6, 2019 by Michael Paulson for The New York Times

A revival of the musical comedy “1776” will come to Broadway in the spring of 2021. The musical is about...

History Matters
May 1 to May 15, 2019

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

Richmond’s new Civil War museum aims to shatter conventional views of the conflict

April 29, 2019 by Gregory S. Schneider for The Washington Post

New museum pulls in voices of people of color. The exhibits aim to shatter expectations of what a Civil War...

Jeanne Allen interviews David Bruce Smith on Reality Check

“If students don’t know history, it’s not their fault.” Those are the words of author, philanthropist and “grateful American” David...

Patriotic Pick for April 2019

Patriotic Picks

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

What eight presidents who weren’t elected can teach us about leadership

April 22, 2019 by Jena McGregor for The Washington Post

Jared Cohen's book “Accidental Presidents" is the culmination of a childhood fascination with the men who ascended to the job...

Warren Buffett’s Skill for Success: Reading

April 22, 2019 by Tom Popomaronis for CNBC

Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, praises this 1 trait of Buffett’s—without it, ‘you won’t get very far in...

David Blight has won a Pulitzer Prize in History for his biography of Frederick Douglass

The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History for a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United...

‘The Problem of Democracy’ Review: Cicero & Son; or, a Party of Two

April 15, 2019 by Richard Norton Smith, The Bookshelf: The Wall Street Journal

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his son John Quincy, the sixth, were ’two Peas parching...

History Matters
April 15 to April 30, 2019

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future

Land of Hope: A History Textbook that Inspires, Not Lectures, Students about America

April 5, 2019 by Jenna A. Robinson

From the very beginning, it’s clear that Wilfred M. McClay’s Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story...

Lincoln Ideas Forum: Voting Rights at Lincoln’s Cottage

The free event takes place on Friday, April 12, 2019 from 1 – 3pm at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington,...

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