Diplomatic Duties

Get high school historians to step outside their own shoes by responding to JFK's inaugural address from the perspective of a civil rights activist, a soviet diplomat, or a Cuban exile. After a class discussion about the address, the...

In this Presidential duties learning exercise, students match the duties with the name of the jobs the President has. Students have 6 jobs and 16 duties to match to those jobs.

Students examine the U.S. neutrality policies that preceded American involvement in World War II. For this World War II lesson, students explore the events in Europe from 1939 to 1940 and Roosevelt's decision to give military aid to...