Lesson Plan The Resignation Speech of Richard M. Nixon Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this two-lesson unit.
Video: Book Breaks Anastasia C. Curwood - "Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics" Government and Civics Anastasia Curwood is a professor of history and director of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at the University of Kentucky. Order Shirley Chisholm at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Lydia Maria Child on women’s rights, 1843 The best-known work of the poet and novelist Lydia Maria Child may be her poem "Over the River and through the Woods," but she is also remembered for her compelling objections to slavery and her support for underrepresented groups....
Lesson Plan The Boston Massacre: Paul Revere and Captain Thomas Preston, 1770 Art 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this three-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan The American Revolution: The Boston Massacre, “Yankee Doodle,” and the Declaration of Independence, 1770-1776 Art 3, 4, 5 Click here to download this four-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Explorers and Exploration in Early American History: Shifting the Narrative, 1489-1609 3, 4, 5 Click to download this five-lesson unit.
Video: Book Breaks Matthew Davenport - "The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906" Government and Civics Matthew J. Davenport’s first book, First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America’s First Battle of World War I (2015), was a finalist for the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. Davenport is a practicing attorney...
Video: Book Breaks James G. Basker - "Black Writers of the Founding Era" Literature James G. Basker is president and CEO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Order Black Writers of the Founding Era at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We...
Video: General Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Conversation with James Basker Literature Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Conversation with James Basker Recorded at Roosevelt House, Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, April 17, 2024. This discussion of the new Library of America anthology Black Writers of the...
Lesson Plan World War II Posters and Propaganda Art, Government and Civics Click here to download this four-lesson unit.