News Introducing Daniel Jocz, the 2018 California History Teacher of the Year Daniel Jocz California History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories...
Program/Event Immigration: Our American Story | Teaching Resources: Immigration Course LESSON PLANS Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I by John McNamara and Ron Nash Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: History through Art (Grades 6–12) by Tim Bailey SPOTLIGHTS ON PRIMARY SOURCES...
Video: Read Along "Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story" Government and Civics Frederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questions might have eluded him but...
Video "Let the Word Go Forth": Symbols and Images in JFK’s Inaugural Address Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ University of Virginia historian Barbara Perry describes John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, including background information on the President’s life and family, the writing of the speech, and major accomplishments of his...
Video The Bondwoman’s Narrative Literature Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of Afro-American Studies, director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and author of seminal works on African American literary criticism and...
History Now Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess Joshua Zeitz Economics, Literature 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were guilty of many things. They were impetuous, they were known to drink too much, and they were prone to bouts of serious depression and self-destructive behavior, but no one could ever... Appears in: 16 | Books That Changed History Summer 2008
News Free Copies of Slavery and Abolition in the Founding Era for Affiliate School Teachers In honor of Black History Month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to offer our Affiliate School teachers a free copy of Slavery and Abolition in the Founding Era: Black and White Voices . This book brings together long...