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TennesseeDigitalNews.comMarch 7, 2025
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Applications open March 10th for Fall Multi Day Seminars!

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comFebruary 26, 2025
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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story; Part 2

Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely Spotlight Gloria Sloan Gloria Reeves Sloan was the oldest of the first three…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comFebruary 20, 2025
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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Why is Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comFebruary 14, 2025
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Bayard Rustin and Nonviolent Resistance: Shaping the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first African American to publicly protest segregation in regional and local transportation systems in the modern…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comFebruary 4, 2025
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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth

One of the many letters Abraham Lincoln received after being elected president in November 1860 was from Alexander Stephens, a…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comJanuary 29, 2025
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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

In May of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, finding segregated schools “inherently unequal.” One year…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comJanuary 23, 2025
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In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

On this day, we are pleased to post this essay by Lucas Morel, Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comDecember 18, 2024
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Introducing our Spring 2025 Webinar Series, Books that Changed the National Conversation

For the past year, Teaching American History’s webinars have been about the presidential election. Last spring, we broke down the…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comDecember 12, 2024
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The Bill of Rights | Teaching American History

Bill of Rights day—December 15—commemorates the day in 1791 when the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of…
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TennesseeDigitalNews.comDecember 3, 2024
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Free Speech: Core Court Cases, Second Edition

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free…
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