Teaching American History hosted a record number of multi-day seminars in 2025. We sent over 500 teachers to 31 historic sites across 22 different states this year alone!

Teaching American History’s Spring 2026 webinar series is a five-part event exploring the Declaration of Independence from its creation to its lasting influence on American reform movements.

If he follows long-standing tradition, then sometime this coming November, President Trump will issue a proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving as his predecessors have done for generations. It will likely be written to inspire the nation and will include reminders of the origins of our very American Thanksgiving celebrations and will urge all Americans to feel gratitude for our myriad blessings, etc.

E Pluribus Unum, We the People, self-evident truths—these were the touchstones of the 1770s and 1780s. The historic collaboration between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison on the Federalist essays in the late 1780s quickly gave way to a political disagreement so sharp that it sundered US politics permanently into (at least) two rival parties.