Elementary | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

History Resources

For interactive maps, lesson plans, student activity sheets, primary sources, professional development courses, and more, scroll down past the interactive timeline to the buttons below.

Teacher in classroom

0. Free Professional Development Courses

View of colonial New York with windmill and sailing ships

1. Colonial America

Soldiers.

2. The American Revolution

U.S. Constitution

3. US Constitution

Westward.

4. Westward Migration

Native Americans.

5. American Indians in a Changing World

Civil War.

6. The Civil War

Reconstruction.

7. Reconstruction

People meeting.

All Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets for Elementary Curriculum I

Maps

All Maps for Elementary Curriculum I

Becoming the United States: A Digital Exhibition

Tamar Greene and cover of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Hamilton Cast Read Alongs

Paul Revere, "A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England and Brittish Ships of War Landing Their Troops, 1768," Boston, 1770. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC02873)

Lectures and Resources from The Making of America