Teaching American History Presents

by TeachingAmericanHistory.org

Teaching American History Presents is the official podcast of TeachingAmericanHistory.org, and features audio archives of our Saturday Webinars and Documents in Detail series, providing teachers and students with original documents-based discussions of the people, eras, events, and ideas that define American history, government, and civics. 
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Podcast episodes

  • Lincoln's Fragment on the Constitution and Union

    Lincoln's Fragment on the Constitution and Union

    Join us for two free professional development webinars that explore Abraham Lincoln’s unmatched understanding of American political principles. For this session, we will be focusing on Document 12 – Fragment on the Constitution a...

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  • An Idealistic or Realistic Foreign Policy? American Controversies

    An Idealistic or Realistic Foreign Policy? American Controversies

    Join our scholars on a Saturday morning for a moderated conversation about American foreign policy.Today’s question: Do American ideals require American intervention abroad?Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provi...

    01:14:42

  • Against American Imperialism

    Against American Imperialism

    Did the imperialistic impulses of the late nineteenth century destroy America’s small r republican identity? Or was it merely a continuation of the Manifest Destiny ideology that had guided American expansionism since the Foundin...

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  • Causes of the Great Depression?

    Causes of the Great Depression?

    Join our scholars for a moderated conversation about the causes of the Great Depression.Today’s Question: Did the "Roaring 20s cause the Great Depression?Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provides educators with ...

    01:19:55

  • Henry Clay's Market Speech

    Henry Clay's Market Speech

    Join us for a series of three free professional development webinars that explore the evolution of America from a small and relatively weak post-colonial republic to a nation debating the virtues of gaining and maintaining an empi...

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