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Herbert Sloan: A Living Constitution

Published September 16, 2011

Legal historian Herb Sloan makes his case for a “Living Constitution.”Read full description

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Mae Ngai: Historical Perspectives on Labor and Immigration Policy

Published September 9, 2011

As part of the 100th anniversary remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, historian Mae Ngai explores the relationship between organized labor and immigration policies.Read full description

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Janice R. Fine: Immigrant Workers Then and Now

Published September 9, 2011

As part of the 100th anniversary remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, political scientist Janice Fine contrasts the situation of immigrant workers at the time of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and today.Read full description

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Like It’s Still Going On: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Reading and Discussion [part 2]

Published September 6, 2011

In the second part of this two-part panel discussion, held at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, distinguished contemporary American writers Frank Bidart, Vijay Seshadri, and Kevin Young talk about writing about the Civil War 150 years after it began.Read full description

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The Nature of the Chemical Bond

By Vijay Seshadri

Stan Deaton: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

Published July 20, 2011

Stan Deaton (Georgia Historical Society) discusses the challenges his institution is facing when discussing and commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.Read full description

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ASHP/CML Introduces HERB

Published May 25, 2011

We are pleased to announce the debut of ASHP/CML’s latest educational website, HERB: Social History for Every Classroom. Named in honor of our co-founder, the late labor historian Herbert Gutman, HERB is a free website for teaching U.S.history. The fruit of over two decades of professional development work with teachers in New York City and around the country, the site is an extensive archive of primary documents, teaching strategies, and other resources that look at how ordinary people both influenced and were influenced by the nation’s economic and political transformations.

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What If Poor Mothers Ran the World? Rethinking the War on Poverty

Published May 19, 2011

Historian Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth College) tells the incredible story of a gutsy band of former cotton-pickers and hotel maids who led the welfare reform movement in Las Vegas and around the nation.Read full description

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U.S. Territorial Expansion

Published April 5, 2011

Jay Gitlin (Yale University) focuses on the existing French, Indian, and Spanish residents as the U.S. expanded westward in the nineteenth century.Read full description

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Up South in Español

Published March 30, 2011

ASHP/CML is delighted to announce that we are now distributing a version of our DVD documentary Up South: African American Migration in the Era of the Great War that has optional subtitles in Spanish. We have also created a Spanish script of the program that can be downloaded from the Up South web page. We hope this proves popular for use in other countries, in classrooms where Spanish is spoken, and for English Language Learners and their teachers.Read more

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