Facing History's recent book, Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry, on his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, looks at the United States» first president's views on religious freedom, and is a powerful resource for exploring
these essential civic lessons within U.S. history.
«As educators, this tragedy presents a unique opportunity to take
essential lessons of
civic responsibility and political discourse beyond the classroom,» they wrote.