Teaching American History Presents: Recent Episodes
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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.
This is the first of 2 podcasts that explores an array of views on the role that the courts should play in American life and how they should interpret the Constitution and our laws. In this episode, we specifically discuss the historical arguments regarding the doctrine of judicial supremacy.Teaching American History’s Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH’s CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.CDC Volume: The JudiciaryDocument: Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
The U.S. Constitution defines three branches of government: the legislative, executive and judicial. Even during the Federal Convention of 1787, delegates disagreed on the structure, powers, and responsibilities of these branches. The Federalist/Antifederalist battles during ratification; the controversy over Lincoln’s use of executive power during the Civil War; and the modern debates around an “imperial presidency,” “congressional do-nothings,” and “activist judges” illustrate that our conception of three branches is still problematic. To what extent can power be shared among coequal branches of government? Are the three branches actually coequal? And if they are coequal, is the act of governing too hard under the U.S. Constitution? Or has modern government destroyed the separation of powers? Federalist 51 * “Fireside Chat” on the Plan for Reorganization of the Judiciary * Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha * Morrison v. Olson*
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 and Union.Teaching American History’s Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH’s CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.Download Abraham Lincoln here
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 provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past. These webinars are open to social studies, history, government, civics and humanities educators.Readings:-George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796-John Quincy Adams, An Address . . . Celebrating the Declaration of Independence, 1821-Albert Beveridge, In Support of an American Empire, 1900-Lyndon Johnson, Peace Without Conquest, 1965-Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Four Freedoms,"1941
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 Founding? Join us as we discuss Carl Schurz’s resonant 1899 speech “Against American Imperialism.”
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 a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past. These webinars are open to social studies, history, government, civics and humanities educators.
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 empire.
Teaching American History’s Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH’s CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.
CDC Volume: American Foreign Policy to 1899
Document: Henry Clay, Market Speech
Join our scholars on a Saturday morning for a moderated conversation about constitutional interpretation.
Today’s question: Is the Constitution a "living" document?
Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past. These webinars are open to social studies, history, government, civics and humanities educators.
Readings:
- Meese, Speech to the American Bar Association
- Brennan, “The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification”
- Posner, “What am I? A Potted Plant?”
- Scalia, “Originalism: The Lesser Evil”
- Vermeule, “Beyond Originalism”
This is the first of three podcasts that explores the evolution of America from a small and relatively weak post-colonial republic to a nation debating the virtues of gaining and maintaining an empire. In this episode, we focus on the contentious politics of the 1790s as Alexander Hamilton and James Madison debate whether American foreign policy should be based on our national interests or our political ideals.
Teaching American History’s Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH’s CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.
CDC Volume: American Foreign Policy to 1899
Document: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Pacificus-Helvidius Debates
Join our scholars on a Saturday morning for a moderated conversation about interposition and the ways in which it can complicate the relationship between state and federal governments.
Today's question: To what extent does the U.S. Constitution permit state officials to question the legitimacy of federal laws and take actions that defy these laws?
Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past. These webinars are open to social studies, history, government, civics and humanities educators.
Readings:
- Virginia Resolution
- State replies to the VA and KY Resolutions
- Virginia Report of 1800
- Madison’s Notes on Nullification
- Fort Hill Address
In honor of the upcoming congressional elections, join us for the second of two free professional development webinars that explore how American political parties transformed from the feared "factions" of the Founding Era to the integral but extra-constitutional political institutions that exist today.
Teaching American History's Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH's CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.
CDC Volume: Political Parties
Document: The Progressive Party Platform of 1912
Join our Senior Fellow, David Tucker, as he discusses MAHG faculty member Stephen Knott's new book, Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy.
Join our scholars for a moderated conversation about the 14th Amendment and the role it has played in American history. Our question: "Did the 14th Amendment fulfill the promise of the Declaration or was it a new founding?"
Teaching American History’s Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we’ve chosen to highlight controversial topics from America’s past.
Join us for a moderated conversation about the essential nature of the Constitution and the Founders' opinions about American slavery.
Teaching American History's Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we've chosen to highlight controversial topics from America's past.
Documents:
- Constitutional Convention: The Slave Trade
- U.S. Constitution
- On the Constitution and the Union, William Lloyd Garrison
- Dred Scott v. Sanford, majority opinion, Roger Taney
- The Constitution of the United States Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?, Frederick Douglass
In honor of the 2022 congressional elections, join us for a series of two free professional development webinars that explores how American political parties transformed from the feared "factions" of the Founding Era to the integral but extra-constitutional political institutions that exist today.
Teaching American History's Documents in Detail series focuses on a single document from one of our Core Document Collection volumes. TAH's CDC volumes are available for purchase or free download at tah.org.
CDC Volume: Political Parties
Document: George Washington Plunkitt's "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall"