Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Spanish American War
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students study the Spanish-American War by watching a documentary video, reading a telegram...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Philippine American War
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to examine how advocates and critics of American...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: American Imperialism
[Free Registration/Login Required] The American Imperialism Unit covers the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The lessons approach historical inquiry from different angles. One asks students to consider contrasting...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The American War for Independence
The decision of Britain's North American countries to rebel against their Mother Country was a risky one. The teaching unit is comprised of three lesson plans. Students explore the diplomatic and military aspects of the American War for...
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Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Philippine American War [Pdf]
The National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA (NCHS) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have developed the following lessons for teaching with primary sources. This unit, like others co-published by NCHS and OAH,...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
This comprehensive site from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) describes the history of the participation of colored troops in the Civil War and government efforts to research and compile records about them....
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Woodrow Wilson and American Entry Into Ww I
This lesson plan explores the ways President Woodrow Wilson tried to keep America out of war as World War I raged in Europe. Examine documents, speeches, and other primary sources to follow America's path from neutrality to war.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Challenges of Making Peace: The Great War
In this interactive lesson, students watch videos from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Great War, read primary source documents and video transcripts, and analyze data to better understand how and why the U.S. and European leaders differed in...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Japanese Americans and Constitutional Guarantees
A lesson plan that explores the history of the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and a discussion of some of the resulting Supreme Court cases.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Soldiers in Philippines
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry instructional activity allows students to use close reading skills to read a variety of primary...
US National Archives
National Archives: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo a fair compromise to end the Mexican-American War? Students will dissect sections of the treaty to summarize and formulate a conclusion to that question.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Maine Explosion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War, the New York Times and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Birth of an American Empire
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "The Birth of an American Empire" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: American Revolution as Civil War
A lesson where students examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted neighbors...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Enslaved and the Civil War
National Humanities Center instructional activity on how enslaved African Americans in the South undermined the Southern cause during the Civil War. Lesson contents includes primary sources material, strategies for text analysis,...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sedition in World War I
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read anti-war literature from World War I critics to...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: King Philip's War
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students analyze original documents to evaluate the conflict between colonists under King Philip and Native Americans.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: u.s. Entry Into World War 1: Curriculum Unit
A teacher-directed curriculum unit that deals with the issue of why the United States entered World war 1. Includes an extensive list of additional resources and activities.
US National Archives
National Archives: Indian Nations vs. Settlers on the American Frontier
When the Revolutionary War ended, there was an ongoing conflict between the Native Americans and American settler in the Northwest Territory. Students will study two documents from each side of the issue and answer questions and/or hold...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: American Diplomacy in World War Ii
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "American Diplomacy in World War II" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Library of Congress
Loc: World War I: What Are We Fighting for Over There?
The Great War of 1914-1918 significantly shaped the course of the twentieth century, both at home and abroad. How can this pivotal event be personalized and brought to life for students in the new millennium? Unfortunately, increasingly...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The First African American Regiment
Students will be introduced to the first African American Regiment that fought in the Civil War through a memorial sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. They will compare and contrast the experiences of these soldiers through their...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creek War Journals
After a study of the Creek War, students will explore perspectives of families on both sides of the war. Students will compose journal entries from a selected social class of the era to develop and exhibit an understanding and...
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