This Day in History 7/16: The Atomic Bomb and the Constant Search for the...
On July 16, 1945, a pack of scientists sat worried in the high desert of New Mexico. Some of the greatest minds of their generation, they created what they thought was the ultimate super weapon. Yet...
View ArticleA Long-Winded History of Presidential Addresses to Congress
The Presidential address to Congress is the “After School Special” of American politics. In the course of over two centuries of representative government, the President sometimes summons both houses of...
View ArticleVideos for the Classroom: For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black...
I’m kicking myself for forgetting this: all this hubbub around the beginning of the school year and I missed the premiere of an important film. This past September, PBS aired the documentary For Love...
View ArticleThis Day in History 12/13: Woodrow Wilson arrives in Paris for the 1919 Peace...
On this day, December 13, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Paris to participate in the final peace talks that will end the War to End All Wars, or World War I. Unlike his counterparts in...
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