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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,...

13 Fascinating Facts About Abigail Adams

April 3, 2019 by Mark Mancini for Mental Floss

Abigail Adams would go on to become the wife of one President and the mother of another. But it’s Adams’s...

History Matters
April 1 to April 15, 2019

Ponce De Leon, the Spanish explorer, discovered Florida on April 2, 1513 during Easter Week, which in Spanish is celebrated...

A Native American war memorial is coming to Washington

March 31, 2019 by Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post

Native Americans have served in the U.S. military in every major conflict since the Revolutionary War but are often overlooked,...

Newly Discovered Photograph of Harriet Tubman Goes on Display

March 29, 2019 by Laura M. Holson, New York Times

A previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader known as the “Moses of her people,” is on display...

How U.S. History is Taught Around the World

March 27, 2019 by Alison Durkee

The pervasiveness of American culture means that people around the world are constantly confronted with U.S. exports, whether through global...

Patriotic Pick for March 2019

Patriotic Picks

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

Want to study abroad? Check out America.

March 12, 2019 by Mitch Daniels for The Washington Post

Yale University, with the goal of producing graduates who have immersed themselves in the ways and the thinking of an...

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