Lesson Plan Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Debating Chinese Immigration and Naturalization, 1869-1898 Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Video Morgan: American Financier Art, Economics, World History 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Based on extensive research in newly opened archives, Morgan: American Financier , Jean Strouse’s portrait of J. P. Morgan, shows a man who helped transform the United States into an industrial nation, and amassed an extraordinary...
Video Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Thomas G. Andrews, an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses his Bancroft Prize–winning book, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War, and the interconnection between railroads, coal,...
Video How Did Manifest Destiny Shape the American West? Government and Civics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Edward J. Renehan Jr. examines Theodore Roosevelt’s view of war and how this affected his children, based on his book The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War. ...
Essay Immigration and Migration Hasia Diner Economics, Government and Civics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The United States emerged in the last third of the nineteenth century as an industrial powerhouse, producing goods that then circulated around the world. People in distant countries used American-made clothes, shoes, textiles,...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Statue of Liberty, 1884 Literature 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ First conceived of in 1865, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France commemorating the alliance between that country and the United States during the American Revolution as well as their mutual dedication to freedom and democracy....