[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.

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,...

[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.

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.

In addition to a tour of the preserved Hermitage and discussion of its history, this site provides good biographies of both Jackson and his wife, and includes a letter he wrote about her final illness.

In this lesson plan, 8th graders will examine primary source letters and speeches to learn about the lives of soldiers and leaders during the Civil War and about Lincoln as a leader. Student resources are included.

This site provides 440 historical documents (including cartoons, clippings, messages to Congress, political broadcasts, and writings and letters) pertaining to President Hoover and the Depression. Explore these documents through the main...

Read about the life of Carrie Chapman Catt, who briefly served as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association following Susan B. Anthony. This site also provides a letter she wrote to Texas suffragist Erminia Folsom.

Mirabeau Lamar's wife, Henrietta, writes about her late husband in a letter to Henry McArdle, the artist behind "The Battle of San Jacinto." Handwritten letter is accompanied by typed transcription for easier reading and is part of...

Click here to see an original page of a letter from Upton Sinclair to President Roosevelt regarding the conditions of meat-packing plants.

Read this letter through which the interim president of Texas wrote to Michel B. Menard, "a trader and adopted member of the Shawnee nation," asking Menard "to negotiate a peace treaty with the Shawnees, Delawares, and Kickapoos." This...