 Char Miller Char Miller, a professor of history at Trinity University, has written an essay for “American Cities,” the latest issue of History Now (www.historynow.org). A quarterly online journal, History Now is produced by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The essay is titled “Remembering the Alamo.” Each issue of History Now addresses a major theme or figure in American history with an interactive feature, essays by historians, lesson plans for teachers, links to related Web sites, and bibliographies. Since its creation in September 2004, History Now issues have included: “Elections,” “Primary Sources on Slavery,” “Immigration,” “American National Holidays,” “Abolition,” “Lincoln,” “Women’s Suffrage,” “The Civil Rights Movement,” and “The American West,” and “Nineteenth-Century Technology.” In November 2005, History Now was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for inclusion on EDSITEment (edsitement.neh.gov) as one of the best online resources for education in the humanities.
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