Lesson Plan My Brother Sam Is Dead Government and Civics, Literature 7 Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Ronald Reagan on the unrest on college campuses, 1967 In his 1966 campaign for California governor, Republican Ronald Reagan promised to "to clean up the mess at Berkeley." Reagan was referring to the unrest prevalent not just at the University of California, Berkeley, but on college...
Lesson Plan Our Constitution: The Bill of Rights (Grades 7–9) Government and Civics 7, 8, 9 View the Constitution in the Gilder Lehrman Collection by clicking here and here . For a resource on the variations between a draft and the final version of the Constitution of the United State, click here . Unit Objective These...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Landing of Columbus, 1492 Geography, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ This engraving depicts Columbus’s first landing in the New World, on the island he called San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. Columbus is surrounded by his men on the beach. Discussing the landing in his journal, Columbus wrote that he...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Charles Sumner on Reconstruction and the South, 1866 Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ By 1865 there were sharp differences of opinion about the rights of freedmen and the governance of the defeated Southern states among political leaders in Congress and the Executive Branch in Washington, DC. Conflict among Republicans...
News Introducing Nicole Woulfe, the 2018 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year Nicole Woulfe New Hampshire 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...