A Compiled resource of books and reviews for those wanting to learn and teach about the history of abortion, reproductive rights, and Roe v. Wade. This review sweeps how the field developed over 4 decades.
A history of abortion activism before and after Roe v. Wade concludes: “The bills in Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri are not evidence, then, that the modern movement has become more extreme. Rather, they are a reminder that the anti-abortion movement has always been extreme.”
An analysis of the 19th Amendment’s impact for women in the Caribbean and Pacific Territories of the UNited States. This transnational research on Women’s suffrage contextualizes U.S. history into the broader history of its empire.
An article on the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution and how its addition encouraged the Nixon campaign team to try to pivot its strategy to recruiting young voters!
A Discussion with Ellen Dubois looking back through time at the Women’s Rights movements. This program also features a commentary by Vivien Rose, historian at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
This article examines how although prisoners are inelgible to vote, they still count in the overall census population in the electoral count where the prison is located. Consquently, convicted fellons are disenfranchised but still taken advantage of when counted in the overal district population.
Guest host Dr. Mireya Loza, Assistant Professor in Food Studies at New York University, interviews Dr. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda Assistant Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University, about her article "For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration's Competing Visions for Farm Workers' Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s", which appears in the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.
An analysis of the history of tax activism and its connection to other marches throughout history. Tracing this back to the Nixon administration, the 16th amendment, and the desire for political transparency - this article also hints at why Presidential Candidate tax records are a hot commodity.
An analysis of the struggle to integrate schools, secure funding, and secure legal support after the Brown v Topeka Board of Education decisions. This analysis follows the struggles faced inside and outside of schools adapting to desegregation.
A radio show discussion with Kristi Lindenmyer on the history of Child Labor in the United States. This program also features a commentary by David Larson, Creighton University labor law professor, on why Labor Day should be celebrated.
Mardi Gras, by Reid Mitchel (Talking History, Feb. 1999)
Including for the feature: Op-ed by John Andrew, professor of history at Franklin and Marshall College, looks at tax reform.
Affirmative Action, by Todd Jones and Linda Gordon (Talking History, Sept. 2000)
A talk with Todd Jones, philosophy professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and co-editor of the book Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discriminaton?. The program contains an op-ed about welfare by professor Linda Gordon.
Austria’s Freedom Party, by Anson Rabinbach and Edward O’Donnell (Talking History, April 2000)
Including for the feature: The program contains an op-ed by Edward O'Donnell on the calls for immigration reform throughout history.
Education Reform, by Dian Ravitch and Arnita Jones (Talking HIstory, Aug. 2001)
An interview with author Diane Ravitch on the history of reform in public education. Ravitch was an assistant secretary at the U. S. Department of Education from 1991-93 and currently holds the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution. Ravitch is the author of Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. The commentary provided by Arnita Jones, executive director of the American Historical Association, looks at the impact of the call by Congress for improved teaching of American history on professional historians.
This article examines how animal and child safety organizations transformed ideologies, insitutions, and laws, and expanded the reach of the state in the Gilded Age.
A history of various Emancipation laws and their celebrations. This article challenges the narratives surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation as a liberation document and brings light to the celebration of Juneteenth.
An analysis of the founding of HBCU’s and the influence of Jim Crow. 3% of all colleges and universities graduate 20% of all African Americans who earn undergraduate degrees.
An article about how it might have been like to experience Emancipation for those living at the time. This article is mostly told from the perspective of those in power and from a legal perspective. It is also written as a “day in the life” style narrative.
An interview with Frances Clarke and Rebecca Jo PLant about their article “The Crowning Insult: Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1940s” which was published in Sept. 2015 in the JAH. This discusses African American responses to the segregation of Gold Star Mothers pilgrimages in the 1930s.
This article challenges the narrative that child labor is not slavery. Instead, Resendez argues that slavery continues to thrive in multiple modes including child labor, prison sentences, and any sort of forced labor for low or no compensation. This article is contextualized through a legal history of the many ways in which this has been “outlawed” and yet allowed.
A history of poor laws and how they were used to control more than poor people. Instead, they were used to control free Black people in Rhode Island, especially free black children.
Slave Petitions, by Loren Schweninger (Talking History, Oct. 2001)
Historian Loren Schweninger talks about his latest project involving slave petitions, The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777--1864. Schweninger is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
This article seeks to answer the question: “Did Lincoln follow the presidential oath or did he abuse his power as president during the Civil War and damage the constitution he had sworn to protect?”
This article looks at the Civil War as a constitutional crisis: There was much to discuss about powers and liberties before, during, and after the war, and without this discussion the Constitution would not endure as the governing document of the United States.
A lesson plan for teaching about the reconstruction amendments through the texts of the Fourteenth Amendments and a petition from the citizens of Cleveland, Tennessee.
An analysis of Lincoln’s engagement with the military, political, constitutional, and diplomatic aspects of the Civil War through the Emancipation Proclamation.
An analysis of the landmark case Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967) and Hulk Hogan v. Gawker (2016) which questioned its precedent. In this analysis of the history of privacy law and the freedom of the press, Nixon’s actions and attitudes are laid bare.
Understanding the broader historical context of the greatest political libel case ever decided by the Supreme Court as well as its impact on the First Amendment.
An analysis of the various cases leading up to Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) and tests of Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Patriotism.
An article about the use of metaphoric thinking as a teaching and learning strategy as well as how to use this strategy when teaching about the United States Constitution.
Continuing with the articles from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, this article analyzes how to teach Constitution history alongside Abraham Lincoln’s presidential policies.
Bill of Rights
Motels in America, by Jefferson Rogers and James Banner (Talking History, Aug. 1998)
Including this because of the feature. This program also features a commentary by James M. Banner, Jr. co-director of the History News Service, who discusses whether free speech is alive or dead.
This is another index. This time an index of Works and Reviews on the death penalty for those who would like to learn or teach about the subject. The list reviews the field over four decades.
Revisiting the supreme court cases of Hirabayashi, Korematsu, and Endo because they have primarily been misdescribed by high school history and government textbooks.
This article places Obergefell v. Hodges in its historical context. The necessity of context is important because many of the claims made by justice erase the “legality” of gay marraige in multiple cultures throughout the world before it being legally granted in the United States of America.
A state specific look at Interacial marriage. This Case also pre-dates the 1967 Loving decision. This lesson plan allows for teaching both federalism and interracial marraige injustice.
A talk with professor Larry Diamond of Stanford University's Hoover Institute, about the concerns over this growing phenomenon. Diamond is the author of Developing Democracy.The program contains an op-ed by Harvard University professor Susan Ware, giving us her list of the 20th century's most influential women.
Guest host Dr. Max Felker-Kantor, Visiting Assistant Professor of American and African American history at Ball State University, interviews Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Indiana University and Assistant Editor at the Journal of American History, about her article"'Land of the White Hunter': Legal Liberalism and the Racial Politics of Morals Enforcement in Mid-century Los Angeles," which appears in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.
Ablavsky elaborates on the research behind the JAH Article: “Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, the United States, and International Law, 1783–1795.”
The following framework seeks to provide teachers a way to do the main ideas justice, yet also keep them manageable. It first covers certain preliminaries about the government's main reactions to the 9/11 attacks and to the sources of human rights limitations the policies encountered. It then turns to specifics, starting with indefinite detention, then “enhanced interrogation techniques,” and finally trials before special military commissions—as well as the key documentary sources of human rights law that each of these practices implicates along the way.
