Women have made vital but often little-known contributions to American history. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes that examine artifacts which provide clues to how women have ...

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the complex challenge of telling America’s story. They ...

To help students make understand the relationship between narrative description of specific episodes and general claims about recurrent political processes, in both their thinking and their writing In ...

A large map of Africa should be installed where all the students can see it clearly. Class sets of "Great Lakes Chronology", Refugees, no, 110 (Geneva, UNHCR, 1997), p. 8. To test entry behaviour, the ...