High schoolers examine the guidelines put out by the FBI to follow during federal investigations. In groups, they discuss the decision by the FBI to increase surveillance after the terrorist attacks on September 11. They share their...

The war against Communism and Joseph McCarthy’s place in it are the focus of a series of three lessons examining postwar America from 1945-1950. This first lesson asks groups to read an introduction that describes the Verona Project and...

The third in a series of lessons introduced by “A Fence Away From Freedom,” uses the Smithsonian website, “A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution” and focuses on the section of the presentation devoted to the...

Students examine news about an espionage case. They work in small groups to research espionage and spy trials of the Cold War era. Students create oral presentations detailing presentations in specific cases.

Students review Watergate Files and the Watergate Trial using Internet sites. They read about the people involved in Watergate. They discuss the events leading up to and after Watergate.

An account, based on FBI documents, of the raid on the Lake Weir (Florida) cottage where Kate "Ma" Barker and her son Fred, as well as a number of others, were captured or killed by FBI agents following the Barker-Karpis gang's...

Enter this electronic reading room to peruse scanned historical documents about the work of Eliot Ness and his fight against organized crime.

An account from the FBI about the Alger Hiss case in which he was convicted of perjury after the accusation of his being a Soviet agent.

Read an account of th events that led to the arrest of Leonard Peltier for the murder of two FBI agents. Did he receive a fair trial? Find a wealth of information related to this controversial trial.

Read the real story behind the relationship between the FB and Eliot Ness during the prohibition era of American history.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Janet Reno, the first female U.S. Attorney General. Her most controversial decision was her order of FBI agents to raid the compound of the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Texas.

The "Reign of Terror" that overtook the Osage Reservation in 1921 is just one chapter in the long story of mistreatment of Native Americans by whites, but is one of the most horrifying. Before the chapter ends, untold dozens of Osage...