History Now

This comes to me from the NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY

HISTORY NOW Launched: The Gilder Lehrman Institute has launched HISTORY NOW, a new online journal for history teachers and students. HISTORY NOW will feature articles by noted historians as well as lesson plans, links to related websites, bibliographies, and many other resources. In each issue, the editors will bring together historians, master teachers and archivists to comment on a single historical theme. The first issue of HISTORY NOW discusses the topic of elections. In this issue, Joanne Freeman discusses the contested election of 1800, Liette Gidlow looks at television's effect on the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates, Steven Mintz examines the history of voting rights, and Ted Widmer reflects on the electoral process from the perspective of Muslim exchange students. To access HISTORY NOW, tap in to: http://www.historynow.org .

There looks to be a lot of interesting election-related historical material. Not only that, the editor is the estimable historian and teacher Carol Berkin -- the person who taught me how to be a historian. [update: Carol reminds me that she alone is not responsible for my historical career; indeed, she is right, and I had many great teachers in grad school and college, even one brilliant teacher in high school.]