Lesson Plan Black Women and the American Revolution 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this lesson plan.
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Mary Katherine Goddard Government and Civics, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On March 3, 2022, our curators were joined by Dr. Martha J. King to discuss Mary Katherine Goddard. Goddard was a newspaper publisher and printer, producing one of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, and served as...
Video Eleanor Roosevelt’s Role in the White House Government and Civics 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 Economics, Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Freedom from Fear focuses primarily on political and economic developments, recounting how presidents and citizens responded to the two great...
Video Defining the Twentieth Century Economics, Government and Civics, World History 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Glenda Gilmore is Assistant Professor of American History at Yale University. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 records political and social change in North Carolina from the...
Video Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Government and Civics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, discusses his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, explains the emergence of the men who led the Revolutionary War and created...
Video The Age of Homespun: Family Labor in the Colonial Economy Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is James Duncan Professor of History and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Professor Ulrich won the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, A Midwife’s Tale...