American high school Physics courses typically fail to address any modern topics in Physics- intriguing topics, like black holes and antimatter, and applications that play a huge role in our everyday lives, like GPS systems and lasers....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the water cycle and children who have written letters to the President. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.

"Will you please let me know if I am free?" wrote Annie Davis. Annie Davis was a slave who wrote this letter to President Lincoln 20 months after the Emancipation Proclamation. To understand her confusion, examine the following documents...

Criticism from Herbert Hoover to President Roosevelt was sent in a private letter. Hoover offered suggestions for the president to help reassure the people of the United States during a time of great fear and desolation.

The press release describing a letter from the president of Uganda to the international court in January 2004. In it, he asks the court to take action against the LRA and provides documentation on the use of genocide by the LRA.

In this lesson, students write a persuasive letter to the President of the United States. Students will research the 2000 Presidential election, interview parents, and reflect on their own opinions and experiences to write their letter....

A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...

Read the text of President Eisenhower's letter to the Senate in which he lays out his reasons for vetoing a housing bill. See the specifics he gives that he feels would improve the bill and allow him to sign it.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses different letters to the President in different historical contexts. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...

This May 15, 1948, letter announces the Israeli provisional government and asks the United States to recognize and accept the new state and its government.

Students will study a letter from Annie Davis, a woman who was enslaved in Maryland and wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to find out if 'we are free.' The students will decide if she received her freedom...

In this lesson, Roald Dahl's book The Witches is used as a mentor text. Students will attempt to save themselves and the other children. Students will analyze real population statistics from world-wide and details from the story to...

In this activity, students will analyze a document sent from a child to President Gerald Ford in 1974. Anthony Ferreira wrote to the president to express his opinion regarding the pardon of Richard Nixon.

This site features an online facsimile of the letter written by the Spanish Ambassador to the United States in which he criticized American President William McKinley. Its publication generated public support for a war with Spain over...

An archive of articles and documents relevant to the Six-Day War's causes, events, and results.

The complete text of the English edition of Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" in a series of links including an introductory letter to President Washington.

This is a fascinating look into the governmental response to the killing of Emmett Till. Read the many pieces of correspondence, including a telegram from Emmett Till's mother to President Eisenhower, and several letters from J. Edgar...

In this collection from the University of Virginia you can access a collection of letters written by Thomas Jefferson to his contemporaries.

List of facts about John Adams and his presidency, with links to additional information, including the text of his inaugural address and a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

In this collection from the University of Virginia you can read miscellaneous kinds of correspondence by Jefferson, including letters about American Indian issues and annual addresses to the House and Senate.

An enormous collection of the original text of the personal letters written by Thomas Jefferson between 1743 and 1826 to many influential political leaders and friends.

Read Secretary of State Robert Lansing's letter to President Woodrow Wilson urging the President to avoid the term "intervention" to characterize the U.S. 1916 invasion of Mexico to capture the revolutionary Pancho Villa.

The National Archives and Records Administration provides the original letter President John Adams sent to the U.S. Sentate on May 18, 1798 nominating Benjamin Stoddert as the first Secretary of the Navy to lead the newly created...

This site provides the letter of the president of the Federal Convention to the president of Congress, transmitting the Constitution.