Teach American History: The Bonus Army [Pdf]

Listen to an NPR interview with author Paul Dickson, whose book, The Bonus Army: An American Epic, recounts the demands of World War I veterans and the violence against them at their encampment in Washington, D.C. There is also a short...

Go in-depth with studying The Federalist and those who contributed to it. What was the goal of the Federalists?

Find the delegates of the Constitutional Convention listed both alphabetically and by the state they represented. Check out the biographical information for each one.

Find out who the Antifederalists were and what their mission was. What were the three categories the Antifederalists were sorted into?

An overview of the order in which the states ratified the Constitution. Find an assortment of newspaper clippings recognizing the ratification process across the states.

Explore both the British and state influences on the U.S. Bill of Rights. Understand the origins of each amendment to the Constitution.

Identify the role of the debates between the Federalists and Antifederalists during the creation of the ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Investigate what the politics were leading to the creation of the Bill of Rights. Identify how the debates in the first congress led to the stages of approval and ultimately the adoption of the ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Explore connections within and between informational texts with this lesson plan about encyclopedia articles. Middle schoolers write encyclopedia articles focusing on topics in American history. They discuss how to determine credibility...

This amazing resouce is actually a set of three courses in teaching American history of the Northwestern U. S. from the 1700s to the year 2000. Each course is fifteen weeks long. But the course is laid out so that you can browse any...