Explores the final decade of the women's suffrage movement through powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington, D.C. procession, Ida B. Wells's successful voter registration...

Ben's Guide is a fun way to present U.S. Government to students grades K-12. This site presents a series of pages taking you through the election process, including Presidential, Senate and Representatives elections and voter...

Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...

Deals with the issue of how to get candidates on-ballot in the United States and the problem of restrictive ballot access laws.

Can the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes miss out on being president? They can, and it's happened before.

A brief video that explains the process of gerrymandering and describes how determining voting districts can influence the outcome of elections. [3:53] Followed by a quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.

This is a hands-on, technology-based U.S. Government instructional activity in which students will view a series of political television advertisements from the 1950s-2000. Students vote on which presidential candidate has the best...

Edison's genius was improving on others' technologies and making them more practical for the general public. Thomas Edison applied for his first patent in 1868, when he was just 21 years old. The famous inventor's first brainchild was...

Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1872 won by Ulysses S. Grant. Another candidate, Horace Greeley, died before the Electoral College cast its votes; it is so far the only election in which a Presidential...

A small box or chest, in which anything might be placed, but more particularly applied to the small boxes which were carried in procession in the festivals of Ceres and Bacchus. These boxes, which were always kept closed in the public...