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… of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an … something greater than themselves. Lady Bird Johnson embodied both kinds of ladies, the self-effacing and the … First Lady. Catherine Allgor, a writer for the History News Service, is a professor of history and a Presidential Chair …

… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … Kotheimer, College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services. Video production by Laura Seeger and Dr. Nicholas …

… Lest We Forget , by contemporary artist Charles Pachter commemorates the centenary of the First World War. Accompanied by an online series of essays , this exhibition …

… Because of its indeterminacy?  No. Its singular distinction comes from the fact that never before have both the popular … or its official Electoral College count. This disturbing outcome may also alert the nation's voters to the real flaws in … History News Service …

… unemployment. Our lesson plan follows this current event in comparison to the economy’s downfall during the Great … and present—that have been created to try and overcome the issue of unemployment. In addition to working with …

… This lesson is for 8 th grade student who have completed their units on the Civil War and Reconstruction. …

… State , the preceding volume to this work, Young adopts a comparative approach. As he outlines in his introduction, a …

… This lesson compairs civil and racial inequality during the Civil Rights …

…  may have the key to engaging a mass online audience. With diverse images ranging from impassioned 1970s … Madrigal explains, with great technological power and reach comes great responsibility. @HistoryPics often ignores …

… exchanges and cooperation between their armed forces. A competition in armaments between China and the United States … History News Service …

… cougars, and rattlesnakes. If he hasn’t been rescued by his compatriots, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the … in 1846 — under unusual circumstances, to be sure. To overcome abolitionist objections, President John Tyler resorted … Southwest" (1995) , and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… to analyze their assigned political cartoon, the class will come together to discuss the political cartoons and how the …

… thing. A rock paper scissors activity engages students in competition, while showing them the differences between a …

… analyzed the media’s heavy focus on the Trump campaign compared to the rest of the candidates (Trump received an …

… through a Think, Pair, Share, to help introduce a more complex and serious topic. After this, students will be …

… Kennedy!”   When Republicans singled out Barack Obama’s income-tax proposal and labeled him a socialist during the recent presidential campaign, one astute commentator saw the fallacy in that charge. Referring to … evil. In the 2008 presidential contest, the progressive income tax became that evil.   Republicans need to tell us …

… had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. Theywere … became inalienable." [Book description from the publisher's website .]  …

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … War II in Europe were better off because of the war’s outcome. That’s what Bush should seek now. The best American … aid as a result of war. “The Mouse That Roared” parodies the wisest foreign policy the United States has ever …

… our thoughts in permanent symbolic form outside of our bodies via Venus figures, body paint markings and cave … of the mind." [Book description from the publisher's website .] …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history …

… miners and their families who had been evicted from their company homes, killing eighteen of them, including women and …

… over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill Clinton to Richard Nixon is the fact that … a Southerner and white supremacist, utterly refused to accommodate the Radicals’ plans for Reconstruction. Even … in Greeley, and he is a writer for the History News Service. …

… urban renewal this hour." [Podcast description from WOSU's website ]    More of Steven Conn's work with Origins : The …