History Resources

Witnessing History: The Pardon of Homer Plessy

Video

Government and Civics

Transatlantic Trade, A Symbiotic Relationship

Lesson Plan

World History

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Hamilton’s Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Economics, Government and Civics

Editor’s Log

Essay

Carol Berkin

The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History

Essay

Eric Foner

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Democracy in Early America: Servitude and the Treatment of Native Americans and Africans prior to 1740

Lesson Plan

World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Sanctity of the Law: Lincoln’s Legal Career

Essay

Steven Mintz

Welcome To The Second Issue of History Now

Essay

Carol Berkin

"Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons"

Video

Runaway slave ad, 1852

Spotlight on: Primary Source

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+