People of African and Asian origin have lived in Britain for at least two thousand years, but this aspect of heritage has been largely forgotten. By presenting a selection of relevant records held by The National Archives and other sources, this resource aims to reclaim some of this history and make it more widely known.

In this lesson, students are given the details of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death and what an important role nationalism played in this cause of WWI. In the culminating activity, students will use the knowledge gained to create a newspaper article about the assassination.

This interactive gives students a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots which represent individual slave ships also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. The graph at the bottom accumulates statistics based on the raw data used in the interactive and, again, only represents a portion of the actual slave trade - about one-half of the number of enslaved Africans who actually were transported away from the continent.

In this lesson, students will be able to process a variety of information on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The lesson emphsis is on discerning factual from interpretive information.

This lesson is designed to give students a brief overview of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its demise in 1989.

With this online resource, students will consider the impact of the construction of the Berlin Wall on East-West relations and the Cold War.

This guide is meant to completed as students view the video The Best Laid Plans. The video can be accessed at: http://macarthurmemorial.org/404/World-War-I-Resources

This is a collection of images from Medieval manuscripts depicting important stories from the Bible.

In this lesson, students read how the Aztec Empire rose to its peak of power and then collapsed under the assault of Cortes and his Indian allies. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students imagine they are an advisor to Moctezuma II on the eve of the Spanish conquest, and write a letter to the emperor describing the problems the Aztec Empire is facing, the consequences of these problems, and what should be done about them.

Students will be able to discuss a photograph and write a descriptive narrative using sensory details; identify the events leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation and speculate what life was like for newly freed slaves in 19th-century America; write journal entries from the perspective of a freed slave in the 19th century; and create a print using scratch foam.

In this lesson, students examine how Gandhi led the movement for independence in India by using non-violent civil disobedience. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students consider various situations and tell whether the situation calls for civil disobedience.

In this lesson, students will learn about British control over Palestine after World War I and how it influenced the Israel-Palestine situation in the modern Middle East. The material will be introduced through a timeline activity and followed by a PowerPoint that covers many of the post-WWI British policies. The lesson culminates in a letter-writing project where students have to support a position based upon information learned.

This exhibition selects four British battles from a period of almost 100 years and, using documents, pictures, and text, describes how and why Britain was at war.

The British empire was one of the most important developments in world history. The empire was huge, it lasted a long time, and it brought tremendous changes to many parts of the world. This resource examines how and why the British empire made Britain so important.

This lesson examines resistance among enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, including in Haiti and Barbados.

In this lesson, students use a variety of multimedia resources to analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance and the historical developments of the Reformation.

This inquiry offers students an opportunity to explore the historic controversy surrounding the extent to which the Treaty of Versailles caused World War II. Students consider not only the stipulations of the peace treaty but also the nature of historical interpretation by following the voices of historians throughout the inquiry.

This resource explores the history of the British Caribbean through government documents, photographs, and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s.

In this lesson, students will examine political cartoons from 1979-1990 and analyze the events and issues leading up to the collapse of the USSR.