History
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Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam
On this date (June 25th) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction…
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MAHG Qualifying Exam Tips | Teaching American History
Summer has arrived! And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master…
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What’s Your Summer Reading? | Teaching American History
Summer’s here! Time to do that reading you put off during the school year. We asked teacher friends what they…
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The 80th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944
Assault landing, one of the first waves at Omaha. The Coast Guard caption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th…
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John Muir Founds the Sierra Club
On May 28, 1892, a group of university professors and interested citizens met in the San Francisco law office of…
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The Power of Primary Documents
Primary documents prompt reflection on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History…
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Passage of the 1924 Immigration Act
On May 26, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Act, the first federal law in American history designed to…
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A Pageantry of Power: Planning Washington’s First Inauguration
This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith, was first posted on January 19, 2021. An online resource guide…
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Brett Van Gaasbeek’s Students Talk about Preserving Self-Government
Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and…
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Joseph Postell on How Congress Actually Works
Today’s blog is an edited excerpt from the introduction to TAH’s CDC volume, Congress, edited by Joseph Postell, available in…
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