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Ashbrook and TeachingAmericanHistory presented another special webinar, this time about Operation OVERLORD, more widely known as D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, and the liberation of Europe that it led to. Dr. Jeff Sikkenga, Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center, discussed the invasion and its place in WW2 and history with Dr. John Moser of Ashland University.

Suggested Readings:

• Fuhrer Directive 51, Adolf Hitler, 3 November 1943
• Combined Chiefs of Staff Directive for Operation Overlord, 12 February 1944
• D-Day Statements, General Dwight Eisenhower, 6 June 1944
• Robert Edlin's Account of D-Day
• Memo to Gen. George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, 6 June 1944

All participants will be sent a printable certificate for continuing education time.

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Live show aired at 11am, Saturday, 7 MAR 2020, exploring the life, ideas, and impact of Jane Addams.

Readings

• Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, Jane Addams, 1908
• "On The Shame of the Cities, chapter 7," George Washington Plunkitt, 1905
• Twenty Years at Hull House, ch8, Jane Addams, 1912

Panelists

• Chris Burkett, Ashland University
• Jennifer Keene, Chapman University
• Mack Mariani, Xavier University

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Teaching American History's latest Core Documents Collection, Causes of the Civil War explains the political, constitutional, moral, social, and economic causes of the Civil War. As the nation expanded, it had to face the question of whether new states and thus political power and ultimately the Union would be slave or free. Compromise, in 1820 and again in 1850, was the first resort, but the nation could not evade the moral question forever. Was slavery right or wrong, just or unjust? Politically, that question expressed itself in the different opinions Americans held of the Declaration of Independence and its assertion of human equality. Was the Declaration a mere political expression of the colonists’ desire to control their own affairs, or did it express a moral truth which was the necessary foundation of self-government and which could not be denied without ultimately destroying self-government? The documents in this volume trace the struggle over this question.

This 26-document volume, which also includes eight images, helps to illuminate not only the history of the United States during the Civil War era, but also something about the fundamental American proposition that all men are created equal, and our national progress towards realizing said proposition.

The volume is available for free as a PDF or Apple eBook, for $.99 for the Kindle, and for $12.99 through Amazon.

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The first in our three-episode series of webinars about Presidential Elections and Campaigns, this episode focused on the tumultuous election of 1800, wherein John Adams was eventually defeated by Thomas Jefferson, resulting in the first partisan exchange of power in America.

Dr. Jeff Sikkenga, Professor Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center, discussed the election and what we can learn from it with Dr. Cara Rogers, of Ashland University.

Suggested Readings:

• Alien and Sedition Acts, 13 NOV 1797
• Letter to John Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1798
• The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis, Timothy Dwight, 4 July 1798
• Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Thomas Jefferson, 26 JAN 1799
• Hideous Hermaphroditical Character - Spurious Quotation about John Adams
• Letter to Harrison Gray Otis, Alexander Hamilton, 23 DEC 1800
• Letter to Thomas Mann Rudolph, Thomas Jefferson, 19 FEB 1801
• First Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson, 4 MAR 1801

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To mark the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dr. Jeff Sikkenga and Dr. John Moser talked about the attack and America's ensuing entry into World War 2.