Lesson Plan Dawes to Burke to McGirt: Tribal Sovereignty, 1887–2020 Geography 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Video: Book Breaks Susan Schulten - "A History of America in 100 Maps" Geography Susan Schulten is a professor of history at the University of Denver. Order A History of America in 100 Maps at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...
Video: Book Breaks Carrie Gibson - "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America" Geography, Government and Civics, World History Carrie Gibson is a historian (University of Cambridge) and journalist. Order El Norte at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our...
Video: Book Breaks Steven A. Steinbach and Maeva Marcus - "With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom" Geography, Government and Civics, Literature Steven A. Steinbach teaches US history and government at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC and Maeva Marcus is a professor of law at George Washington University. Order With Liberty and Justice for All? at the Gilder...
Video: Book Breaks Nicole Eustace - "Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America" Foreign Languages, Geography, Government and Civics, World History Nicole Eustace is a professor of history at New York University. Order Covered with Night at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our...
Video A Voyage Long and Strange World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Award-winning author Tony Horwitz discusses the research and writing process for his book A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America (2008). ...
Video Europeans and the New World, 1400–1530 Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History Brian DeLay, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses how the backwater of western Europe emerged from the devastation of the fourteenth century to generate the power, wealth, knowledge,...
Video Nature, Culture, and Native Americans Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Daniel Wildcat is a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and Director of the American Indian Studies Program at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He discusses the importance of distinguishing between...
Video Guns, Horses, and the Grass Revolution Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In this lecture Elliott West, a professor of history at the University of Arkansas, describes how the introduction of Old World phenomena such as guns, horses, and new diseases affected the Native peoples of the New World. Those who...
Video Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands Economics James F. Brooks, Director of the School of American Research Press, is author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Bancroft...