Nation History Packs

As many of you know, The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine. Founded in 1865 by abolitionists based in and around New York and Boston, for the last 141 years the magazine has tried to function as, to quote the great Gore Vidal, "a journalistic alert-system, warning of dangers too often invisible to even the most alert."

Four years ago, The Nation launched a Classroom Education Program as a way to encourage a healthy diversity of opinion by offering massively marked-down short-term subscriptions for students. One part of that program offers teaching aids and archival resources to educators which have been so popular that we're now making special history packs available to all students of history, whether you're in a classroom or not, at very reasonable rates.

Nation editors have combed the magazine's archives to collect and compile insightful articles that bring back to life the real stories behind the historic episodes that have shaped the American experience. As twenty-first century Nation readers know from our prescient coverage of the Iraq War, the story started well before the invasion and occupation that four years later threatens to inflame the entire region.

Now you can travel back and read The Nation's reporting on The Roots of the Vietnam War, beginning with an article we published in 1947. Or learn about the civil rights movement as it was unfolding during The Montgomery Bus Boycott--years before Rosa Parks inspired the "Miracle in Alabama." Interested in the ongoing battle between evolution and creationism in schools? Go back to The Scopes Trial and read The Nation's coverage of the historic "Monkey Trial," including a piece by H. L. Mencken, one of the country's most legendary journalists. There are also packs on Sacco and Vanzetti, President Kennedy's assassination, Watergate, the Spanish-American War and much more.

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Peter Rothberg,
The Nation

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