Teacher Appreciation Week: Teaching Resources
Posted by Anna Khomina on Tuesday, 05/09/2017
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! At Gilder Lehrman, we’re celebrating social studies/history teachers for their invaluable work in not only bringing history to life for their students, but educating future generations of knowledgable, civics-minded citizens. In recognition of these efforts, we’ve highlighted some of our most popular teaching resources. Explore them by era below:
The Americas to 1620
- Primary Source: Columbus Reports on His First Voyage
- Infographic: Major European Explorers
Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Primary Source: Jamestown Settler Describes Life in Virginia
- Lesson Plan: Pilgrims, the Mayflower Compact, and Thanksgiving
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Primary Source: Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre
- Lesson Plan: The Declaration of Independence
The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Infographic: Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
- Lesson Plan: The Battle over the Bank - Hamilton vs. Jefferson
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Primary Source Readings: Lowell Mill Girls and the Factory System
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Infographic: Comparing the North and South
- Primary Source: A Proclamation on the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Primary Source Readings: Imperialism and the Spanish-American War
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Infographic: Reform Movements of the Progressive Era
- Primary Source: The Treaty of Versailles
Great Depression & WWII, 1929-1945
- Primary Source: Herbert Hoover on The New Deal
- Teacher Read: Immigration Policy in World War II