Pbs: Remembering Sept. 11: Two Years After the Attacks

Detailing the causes, strategies, and effects of the Hundred Years' War, this presentation will interest even the most reluctant historians in your class. Bright pictures and maps help to put the war into context and allow teachers to...

Was American politics always bound to the two-party system? Learn how the two-party system developed, why third parties tend not to do so well, and all the various political parties that have emerged throughout US history. Each party is...

Students read excerpts from Peter Hessler's River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze and discuss his difficulties in learning the language, cultural clashes and how cultural perceptions shape our understanding of the world.

What was the most beneficial policy for nineteenth-century African Americans: to stay in the United States and work for freedom, or to immigrate to a new place and build a society elsewhere? Your young historians will construct an...

An overview of the North American battles during the Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) and the Treaty of Paris 1763 which led to the Proclamation of 1763.

A young boy from Minnesota is in "training" because it is believed that he is the reincarnation of a spiritual leader within the faith who died nine years ago. Check out the story and what the Dalai Lama has to say about it all.

From the American Folklife Center, this compilation of recordings of "Man on the Street" interviews in the two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and then a month later bring an important understanding of the viewpoints of ordinary...

Did you know that the Bill of Rights was not added to the US Constitution until three years after the Constitution was adopted? This short video explains why these fundamental protections for individual liberties were added as the first...

An assessment of The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War).

The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) also known by other names, was the first global war whereby the British and the French competed to be the world's foremost imperial power. The background to the conflict and what the...