TCTH Lesson Plans
- Race Relations and Racism in US History: African American Experiences since the Civil War (High School)
- Civic Engagement Project Pacing Guidance
Timeline
AllSides News
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Additional Gilder Lehrman Resources
Essays
- “Hispanics in the United States: Origins and Destinies” by Rubén G. Rumbaut
- “Mexicans in the Making of America” Neil Foley
- “Mexican Farm Labor and the Agricultural Economy of the United States” by Mary E. Mendoza
- “Immigration Policy, Mexican Americans, and Undocumented Immigrants, 1954 to the Present” by Eladio Bobadilla
- “Why I Embrace the Term Latinx” by Ed Morales
- “Indian Removal” by Theda Perdue
- “The Indian Removal Act” by Elliott West
- “Change and Crisis: North America on the Eve of the European Invasion” by Christopher L. Miller
- “Indian Slavery in the Americas” by Alan Gallay
- “A New Era of American Indian Autonomy” by Ned Blackhawk
- “‘The Chinese Question’—Unresolved and Ongoing for Americans” by John Kuo Wei Tchen
- “The History of US Immigration Laws: What Students Should Know” by Jane Hong
- “The 1965 Immigration Act: Opening the Nation to Immigrants of Color” Tom Gjelten
- “Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals” by James Oliver Horton
Spotlights on Primary Sources
- The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493
- Map of the New World, with European settlements and American Indian tribes, 1730
- A report from Spanish California, 1776
- The Brotherton Indians of New Jersey, 1780
- A map of Louisiana Territory, 1806
- The massacre of American Indian allies, 1818
- Verses on Norwegian emigration to America, 1853
- San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1880
- Literacy and the immigration of “undesirables,” 1903
Online Exhibitions, Timelines, and Quizzes
- Timeline: “The Americas to 1620”
- “The Dred Scott Decision and Its Bitter Legacy”
- “African American Voting Rights”
- “Immigration: An American Story”
Videos
- “Tracing the Origins of Chinese Exclusion” by Jane Hong
- “Chinese Exclusion and the Rise of the Gatekeeping State, 1882–1929” by Jane Hong
- “Immigration since 1965” by Mae Ngai
- “The History of Race Relations in America: African American Experiences, 1492–Present”
- “Using Historical Content to Ground Difficult Conversations” by Corey Winchester and Justin Emrich