Learners explore what happens when someone is tried for a crime. They expand their knowledge of the name "Criminal Justice System" and develop discussion skills. Students read the story Leeds footballer guilty of fighting in public. ...

This archive article reports the various eyewitness accounts of what really went on inside the school during the Beslan siege. (9/7/2004)

A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day, this site contains over 18,000 pages of primary source, eyewitness accounts of North American exploration starting with the Vikings.

A riveting eyewitness account of an RAF pilot describing his participation in a dogfight over Britain when the Germans were attempting to bomb Great Britain into surrender at the beginning of World War II. Included is an audio of Winston...

This article offers moving eyewitness accounts of events and feelings of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Article with photographs about the Galveston hurricane of 1900 provides a survivor's eye witness account of the devastation.

Presents a colonist's actual account of the boarding and dumping of the tea into the Boston Harbor on December 17,1773.

[Free Registration/Login Required] TThis passasge contains a first person account of a child who was rounded up and placed in a Japanese internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...

In this lesson, students practice working with primary documents by comparing accounts of the Chicago Fire and testing the credibility of a Civil War diary.

Read what life was like for the slave population in Arkansas in this extensive collection of eyewitness accounts. Presented in a list of main topics, then broken down into specific stories. Highly recommended!

An eyewitness account provided by an electrical engineer about the brutal Ludlow Massacre in which three women and eleven children were killed in a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, during the height of the Colorado Coal Strike.

Read the eyewitness account of a reporter who was with William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition when he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.

A detailed description of Lincoln's last day with an eyewitness account of the assassination. Includes information on the trial of Booth's conspirators.

Understanding the important events in United States history and being able to recognize how history affects current events are crucial skills for students. This lesson plan lets them examine and analyze important milestones through...

Stories focus on military medicine and highlight personal accounts from doctors, nurses, and individuals providing medical support.

A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day, this site contains over 18,000 pages of primary source, eyewitness accounts of North American exploration starting with the Vikings.

This first-person, eye-witness account discusses the Battle at Lexington Green was the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the "Shot heard 'round the world." Read details about this famous battle.

This firsthand account of an encounter with some of the men from the Texas Rangers, a group of law enforcement officers in nineteenth century Texas.

Firsthand account of the filmimg of director D.W. Griffith's movie Way Down East staring actress Lillian Gish.

Read the chilling first-person account of Capt. William Dyess, who was captured on Bataan, and survived the Batann Death March.

Read the account of Howard Carter, an English Egyptologist, who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1923.

Vivid and succinct account of the efforts and struggles of WWI veterans who marched on Washtington D.C. to demand their veterans' benefits. Article describes their forced dispersement by the army, which strained the confidence of the...

A historically significant account of what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship off the African coast in 1829.

An account of the Soviet takeover of Berlin in 1945. Presents an actual report of a war torn city and people starving, huddled in their houses as the army approached.