This lesson focuses on the issue of texting while driving; it features links to articles and a video about the dangers of texting and other distractions while driving and a teen survey with their attitudes on the subject. Students read...

Explains how the Ku Klux Klan came into existence and how they terrorized African Americans as well as those who sympathized with them. The Klan would suppress the black vote so that Democrats had a better chance of winning an election...

The Big Thicket in Texas became a national preserve in 1974. Before that it had a very colorful history. The stories of some of the people who lived there are described, including the settlers, the Native Americans, the oil towns, and...

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination according to sex. Did the feminist movement improve American women's lives?

Presents a six-year timeline from April, 1830, when the Mexican government outlawed emigration of American settlers into Texas to the April, 1836, the Battle of Jacinto. Links to websites for additional information.

The Compromise of 1850 acted as a band-aid over the growing wound of sectional divide.