This unit from Khan Academy provides many lessons and practice sessions over the foundations of American democraccy. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses,...

By making time capsules, we can decide what message to send to the future about our own lives. If it were discovered years from now, what would the objects say about you and the time you lived in?

Try this trippy experiment to fool your brain.

This is a six-page PDF of the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a story about a conflict between a Chinese-American daughter and a Chinese immigrant mother.

Excellent questions from students, answered by African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

Primary source documents include photographs, documents, cartoons, and advertisements that help to paint a picture of this unique time and place in American history.

The closing argument speech from the film, "The Verdict."

Investigate the biography of Maria Tallchief on this site. Learn about the first Native American Indian to become a prima ballerina dancer.

Explore the various reform movements American women participated in during the 19th century.

This practice exercise from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The Gilded Age, Western expansion, and the "New South" are included in the practice. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

An entire course on US government and civics - we don't seem to have any of it; many individual lessons to harvest. Should be cross-checked against embedded videos.

This is a document made by the Hopi Elders that calls people to reflect on their lives.

Poet laureate Robert Hass writes about the poetry form called villanelle and uses poems by Roethke and Bishop to demonstrate the form.

Kids learn about the biography of Chief Joseph an important Native American Indian and chief of the Nez Perce tribe on this site.

Test your knowledge of US Government with this general quiz.

Find answers to a practice quiz on the US government on this webpage.

Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about Halloween. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with ESL students...