Podcasts – Teaching American History

Federalist 1 (1787) was the focus of the 25 SEP 2019 Documents in Detail webinar.   Panelists John Moser, Ashland University Jeremy Bailey, University of Houston John Dinan, Wake Forest University iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Documents in Detail: Federalist 1 appeared first on Teaching American History.

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 7 SEP 2019, exploring Franklin the entrepreneur, thinker, scientist, political leader, and perhaps 'original American.'   Readings An Appeal for the Hospital, Benjamin Franklin, 1751 The Way To Wealth, Benjamin Franklin, 1757 A Letter from Father Abraham to His Beloved Son, Benjamin Franklin, 1758 The Morals of Chess, Benjamin Franklin, 1779 Letter to Joseph Banks, Benjamin Franklin, 1783 Final Convention Speech, Benjamin Franklin, 17 September 1787 Excerpt, Ben Franklin's Autobiography, 1790 Panelists Chris Burkett, Ashland University Todd Estes, Oakland University David Tucker, Ashland University   iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Saturday Webinar: Benjamin Franklin appeared first on Teaching American History.

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) Documents in Detail webinar aired live on 28 AUG 2019. Panelists John Moser, Ashland University Todd Estes, Oakland University Sarah Morgan Smith, The Ashbrook Center iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Documents in Detail: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom appeared first on Teaching American History.

Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 17 AUG 2019, exploring the famed revivalist preacher and theologian of the Colonial Era.   Readings A Divine and Supernatural Light, Jonathan Edwards, 1734 (about halfway down the page) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards, 1739 Panelists Chris Burkett, Ashland University Sarah Morgan Smith, The Ashbrook Center Jason Stevens, Ashland University   iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Saturday Webinar: Jonathan Edwards appeared first on Teaching American History.

Saturday Webinars: American Minds - REGISTER HERE During the 2019-20 school year we will revisit a general theme – the individual – we’ve studied in past series, like American Presidents. This time, however, we are excluding presidents and instead broadening our scope to include individuals who have had significant impact on our culture, society, and government through literature, reform leadership, science, religion, and war, as well as politics. Our American Minds webinar series will help you integrate a broader selection of individuals into your history and government courses, and will also provide English teachers with an easy avenue to consider some literary icons from a historical perspective. Each program is 75 minutes long and airs on select Saturdays at 11am ET. Jonathan Edwards – 17 AUG 19 Benjamin Franklin – 7 SEP 19 Alexander Hamilton – 5 OCT 19 Henry Clay – 2 NOV 19 Harriet Beecher Stowe – 7 DEC 19 Frederick Douglass – 11 JAN 20 William Jennings Bryan – 1 FEB 20 Jane Addams – 7 MAR 20 Douglas MacArthur – 4 APR 20 Ralph Ellison – 2 May 20 Documents in Detail: Selections from the 50 Core American Documents - REGISTER HERE Documents in Detail will continue during the 2019-20 school year with ten more 60-minute episodes take place typically on the third Wednesday of each month, at 7pm EST. Each episode will focus on one document, drawn from our collection of 50 Core American Documents. Spanning American history from 1776 to 1964, each episode is a deep-dive into a single document, exploring its historical context, ideas, language, and impact on politics, law, and culture. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 28 AUG 19 Federalist 1, 25 SEP 19 Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, 23 OCT 19 The Webster-Hayne Debates, 20 NOV 19 John C. Calhoun’s Speech on the Oregon Bill, 18 DEC 19 Abraham Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union, 22 JAN 20 Plessy v. Ferguson, 19 FEB 20 1912 Progressive Party Platform, 25 MAR 20 Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 22 APR 20 Herbert Hoover’s Speech on the New Deal, 13 May 20   For both series, individual episode information, including documents links, will be published one month before the episode air date. The post 2019-2020 Webinars – Registration is Open appeared first on Teaching American History.

The second of TAH.org's Great American Debates webinar series took place on Saturday, 8 September. Our episode focused on the Federalist-Antifederalist Debates that took place most obviously from late 1787 through 1788, when the Constitution was being considered for ratification throughout the 13 states. Our program took a serious look at the ideas of both sides, considering them as ideas expressed and debated at the time, and looking at how some of these issues have been alive as points of contention throughout American history. For more information about the "out of doors" debates over the Constitution, take a look at our Ratification of the Constitution exhibit. See the full archive page here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Saturday Webinar: Federalists vs. Antifederalists appeared first on Teaching American History.

In this final episode of the 2018-19 Documents in Detail year, we discuss President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" speech - its reception in 1964, and its legacy for American social policy and political thinking. Access the full archive here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Documents in Detail: LBJ’s Great Society appeared first on Teaching American History.

The final episode in the 2018-19 Great American Debates webinar series, in which the ideas, principles, and implications of LBJ's Great Society-style liberalism and Ronald Reagan's limited government conservatism are compared, analyzed, and discussed. Access the full archive here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Saturday Webinars: The Great Society vs. Modern Conservatism appeared first on Teaching American History.

In this month's episode of Documents in Detail, TAH faculty members discussed the meaning, context around, and importance of Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 State of the Union address, famous for its full-throated defense of FDR's vision for a reformed America, what he called a "second" Bill of Rights, and how he worked with his political allies and adversaries to frame, present, and even sometimes misrepresent, his foreign and domestic policies. An ever-complicated man, FDR's motives are often difficult to discern, although papers such as the 1944 SOTU offer a clear sense of his understanding of what America ought to be. Access the full archive here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS The post Documents in Detail: FDR’s 1944 State of the Union Speech appeared first on Teaching American History.

Drs. Chris Burkett, Peter Myers, and Lucas Morel discussed the different views and goals of Martin Luther King, jr. and Malcolm X in our latest Great American Debates series of Saturday Webinars. Access the full archive here, and our podcast options below. Podcast RSS   The post Saturday Webinars: Martin Luther King, jr. vs. Malcolm X appeared first on Teaching American History.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tah-podcasts/18-18+podcasts/2019+04+05+MLK+vs+MalX.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Drs. Chris Burkett, Peter Myers, and Lucas Morel discussed the different views and goals of Martin Luther King, jr. and Malcolm X in our latest Great American Debates series of Saturday Webinars. Access the full archive here, and our podcast options below. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tah-podcasts/18-18+podcasts/2019+03+20+DiD+Wilsons+Fourteen+Points.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points laid out Wilson’s plan for not only a post-war world, but in many ways a new world order, in response to the destruction of World War 1. TAH scholars discuss the meaning of, context around, and impact of Wilson’s ideas in this one-hour webinar. Access the full archive here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS

TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history,  government, civics, and social studies teachers. While you may be familiar with our 50 Core American Documents book, we are launching a new 35-volume document collection. This collection of documents on the American Founding inaugurates a new series of document collections from TeachingAmericanHistory.org. Each Core American Document volume will contain the following: Key documents on the period, theme, or institution, selected by an expert and reviewed by an editorial board An introduction highlighting key documents and themes A thematic table of contents, showing the connections between various documents Study questions for each document, as well as questions that refer to other documents in the collection Notes on each document to identify people, events, movements, or ideas to improve understanding of the document’s historical context. When complete, the series will be comprehensive and authoritative, and will present America’s story in the words of those who wrote it – America’s presidents, labor leaders, farmers, philosophers, industrialists, politicians, workers, explorers, religious leaders, judges, soldiers; its slaveholders and abolitionists; its expansionists and isolationists; its reformers and stand-patters; its strict and broad constructionists; its hard-eyed realists and visionary utopians – all united in their commitment to equality and liberty, yet so often divided by their different understandings of these most fundamental American ideas. The latest volume in Teaching American History's Core American Documents Collections is out - the Bill of Rights. Edited by Professor Gordon Lloyd, this 26-document volume include all the same components of our other Core Documents volumes, with the goal in mind of establishing the context around the creation of the Bill of Rights, and the many sources of the right codified in those first ten amendments to the Constitution. Professor Lloyd explains how he went about choosing documents, and why he started at a somewhat novel point in history - and it's not Magna Carta. Kindle Edition Physical Copy iTunes Ebook (coming soon) PDF The post Core American Documents: The Bill of Rights appeared first on Teaching American History.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tah-podcasts/CDC+Podcasts/Gordon+Lloyd+Bill+of+Rights+CDC.mp3 | Open Player in New Window TeachingAmericanHistory.org is excited to share another resource for American history,  government, civics, and social studies teachers. While you may be familiar with our 50 Core American Documents book, we are launching a new 35-volume document collection. This collection of documents on the American Founding inaugurates a new series of document collections from TeachingAmericanHistory.org. Each Core American Document volume will contain the following: Key documents on the period, theme, or institution, selected by an expert and reviewed by an editorial board An introduction highlighting key documents and themes A thematic table of contents, showing the connections between various documents Study questions for each document, as well as questions that refer to other documents in the collection Notes on each document to identify people, events, movements, or ideas to improve understanding of the document’s historical context. When complete, the series will be comprehensive and authoritative, and will present America’s story in the words of those who wrote it – America’s presidents, labor leaders, farmers, philosophers, industrialists, politicians, workers, explorers, religious leaders, judges, soldiers; its slaveholders and abolitionists; its expansionists and isolationists; its reformers and stand-patters; its strict and broad constructionists; its hard-eyed realists and visionary utopians – all united in their commitment to equality and liberty, yet so often divided by their different understandings of these most fundamental American ideas. The latest volume in Teaching American History’s Core American Documents Collections is out – the Bill of Rights. Edited by Professor Gordon Lloyd, this 26-document volume include all the same components of our other Core Documents volumes, with the goal in mind of establishing the context around the creation of the Bill of Rights, and the many sources of the right codified in those first ten amendments to the Constitution. Professor Lloyd explains how he went about choosing documents, and why he started at a somewhat novel point in history – and it’s not Magna Carta. Kindle Edition Physical Copy iTunes Ebook (coming soon) PDF

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tah-podcasts/18-18+podcasts/2019+03+02+SatWeb+FDR+vs+Hoover.mp3 | Open Player in New Window TAH’S Saturday Webinar on March 3rd, 2019, focused on the ideological, practical, and political debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, primarily during the election campaign of 1932, but reaching deeper into American traditions of limited government and the role of the federal government in the life of the individual. Access the full archive here. iTunes Podcast Stitcher Podcast RSS