Lincoln & the Declaration: A Guide

You can download or view the slides from the presentation here. Suggested further readings on this topic: Eric Foner, The…

The Declaration After Reconstruction

Part Three of Designing the Declaration Lincoln and the Reconstruction Congress placed the principles of the nation’s founding document into…

June 27, 2026. 1:30 pm. Northwest Place. The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important pieces of writing…

Study Guide for Common Sense: Common Sense is best understood by simply reading the pamphlet. It was written in plain…

Follow this link to a very interesting article from the Atlantic by historian Jill Lepore on what the revolution means…

As the 250th anniversary of the Revolution has arrived, there are several excellent programs on television that help explain or…

Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History is a critical read for understandingthe historical development of capitalism. At over 13,00 pages,…

March. Is it noun or a verb: a month, or an order? Maybe it is an invitation to start moving…

So often when we think of Histiory we think of war, or disasters like the Dust Bowl or the sinking…

It is my 70th birthday today. I have studied History for most of my life, and I am now beginning…

I first started studying Westerns when I was a history student studying the West. By the 1960s there was a…