George Washington to New Hampshire, 29 December 1777 (Detail, GLC03706) he following classroom materials were developed by Gilder Lehrman Institute Summer Seminar participants. These selected "document projects" are intended for integration into classroom lesson plans and feature selections from a variety of primary source documents such as letters, diary entries, cartoons, paintings, songs, and statutes, followed by a series of thought-provoking questions designed to elicit sustained student responses as well as examine student comprehension of the text. These questions should serve as a springboard to stimulate classroom discussion on each selected topic and enhance the students' critical thinking skills. Each page includes the text, or an excerpted text, of a primary source document, a link to the source (where available), and a series of comprehension and analysis questions. The Era of George Washington Washington Urges Support of the Republic Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy Washington Takes His Stand The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson Letters from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson's reply to Banneker Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald Ambassador Jefferson on the New Constitution and the Commercial Treaty Negotiations North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective Nat Turner's Insurrection Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court Slave Codes The Civil War in Global Context Lincoln and Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom Joseph Mazzini and the Civil War: Nineteenth Century Nationalism Lincoln Looks at The Emancipation of the Serfs Reconstruction Fifteenth Amendment - "Shoo, Fly, don't Bodder me!" The First Class Men of Our Town The Disappointment of Presidential Reconstruction Freedmen Land Ownership Immigration in America, 1840-1940 American Nativism and 19th Century Immigration Ku Klux Klan Membership The Hardships of the Poor and Immigrants Jane Addams and Hull House Religious Movements in America The Great Awakening and a New American Identity Implications of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" A Founding Vision: "We Shall Be As a City Upon a Hill" Religious Revival in America, Second Great Awakening America Between the Wars New Deal; FDR's ideology Excerpt from Chapter XIV of Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis The Flint Sit-Down Strike Considering the Human Cost of the Great Depression William Jennings Bryan's Last Speech The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial The Civil Rights Movement Robert Kennedy's Speech on Martin Luther King's Death The Promise of Democracy First Day of Integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas Lyndon Johnson's Commencement Address at Howard University U.N. Declaration of Human Rights Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson's Character and Efforts During the Civil Rights Era Interpreting the Constitution Analyzing an excerpt from Marbury v. Madison Child Labor: The Keating Owen Child Labor Act 1916 The Unconsitutionality of the Protective Tariff of 1828 Federalist #68 - The Electoral College Process Civil War: The Constitution and the Extension of Slavery McCullough v. Maryland and the "Elastic Clause." Great Depression, World War II, and the American West World War II and black Americans: roots of the Civil Rights Movement Court Restructuring ‚ Two Perspectives Perspective A - Roosevelt's Fireside Chat - March 9, 1937 Court Restructuring ‚ Two Perspectives Perspective B - Gannett Letter FDR and Civil Rights World War Two and the Spirit of Sacrifice Huey Long "Share the Wealth" Speech John L. Lewis: Coal Miner's Hero Visions of the American Environment The Value of Preserving Bird Life/T. Roosevelt Unit: Thoreau's Walden Aim: To understand what type of person Thoreau seeks to liberate through reading Walden President Warren G. Harding Visits Yellowstone National Park The Conservation of Natural Resources by Theodore Roosevelt Silent Spring and DDT The Cold War Reagan/Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War Competing Worldviews- Kennan and Zhdanov, 1947. Does a democratic government ever have the right to deprive citizens of their rights when it feels threatned? Comparing the Speech of President Kennedy in 1963 with the Speech of President Reagan in 1987 Harry Truman: Fertilizer For A Cold War The Great Plains, America's Crossroads American Literature; African American migration to the Great Plains The Homestead Act: The Great American Equalizer The Battle of Wounded Knee: From an Indian Prospective The Battle of Wounded Knee: From a U.S. Army Interpreter's Point of View