Lesson Plan Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women's Contributions During World War II Art, Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12 Overview Although often understated, the social, economic, and political contributions of American women have all had profound effects on the course of this nation. For evidence of this, one needs to look no further than the many...
Lesson Plan The End of the Vietnam War: Conscience, Resistance, and Reconciliation Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based units. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance....
Lesson Plan Survival in the American Wilderness: Fiction v. Nonfiction 7, 8 Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based units. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance....
Interactive Excerpts from American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation Art, Literature 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Lesson Plan The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this four-lesson unit.
Interactive The American Revolution through the Eyes of Hamilton Return to Alexander Hamilton: Witness to the Founding Era .
Lesson Plan The Origins of US Cold War Fears, 1946–1961 World History 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this two-lesson unit. This unit was created in partnership with World101 from the Council on Foreign Relations .
Lesson Plan Native American Cultures and the Impact of the Boarding Schools 3, 4, 5 Click to download this four-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Farewell to Manzanar: Japanese Internment Camps During World War II Government and Civics, Literature, World History 6, 7, 8 Background In 1886, after the arrival of Commodore Perry, the Japanese government lifted its ban on emigration and allowed its citizens to move to other countries. In the years after that, however, the United States made it more...