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 … More

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 … More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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