Scholastic: New York Times Upfront: 1911: The Triangle Factory Fire

The Persian Gulf War, as seen in retrospect, set the stage for the second Iraq War. This article summarizes the brief war and also lists the "unfinished business" which led to further complications for the United States. December 13, 2010

The New York Times website provides extensive coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Here you can read an archive of news articles related to the disaster, and check out photo galleries and interactive features.

This versatile resource from The New York Times website provides a short opinion piece on smart phones and the amount of time we spend playing games on them as well as several possible writing prompts pupils could consider in response to...

Site is devoted to every facet of the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Primary source documents, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, and a list of victims is included in this comprehensive site.

Although not a complete lesson plan, this set of emotionally powerful texts could be used in a variety of lessons. From The New York Times' Learning Network site, the resource includes a poem, an excerpt from a New York Times article and...

Excerpts from New York Times coverage of the Court arguments in the Dickerson case which revisited the rights established by the Miranda case in 1966.

Visit this virtual museum exhibit to learn about New York City's divided opinions about slavery before and during the Civil War. There are three themes covered: Pro-Southern City, Fighting Slavery, and Civil War. Students use a...

Build a historical perspective from four different points of view. Young historians take on the role of a slave-owning white person, non-slave owning white person, slave, or free African-American person and imagine what life would be...

How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire change modern working conditions? The engaging resource explains conditions that contributed to the tragic fire, the workers affected by it, and how it changed labor laws and working...

The 1971 leaking of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times led to a Supreme Court case in which the government took the newspaper to court over publishing classified information about Vietnam War policy.