Drawing on the resources of the Library of Congress's Printed Ephemera Collection, this lesson helps students experience the news as the colonists heard it: by means of broadsides, notices written on disposable, single sheets of paper that addressed virtually every aspect of the American Revolution.

In this activity, students analyze primary source documents in order to better understand the content, impact, and perpetual relevance of the U.S. Constitution to the daily lives of American citizens.

In this lesson, students will explain some of the issues faced by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention and describe how different states addressed these issues. Students will also be able to describe how the outcomes of the simulated Constitutional Convention compares to the outcomes of the actual event.

Students will work on an independent project throughout their study of the Constitutional Period by researching a Constitutional topic and creating a float representing that topic. Students will then educate others on their topic by presenting their float in a class parade.

This exhibition covers the themes of crime, prevention, and punishment during different time periods. There are 12 galleries altogether, each with a key question, a worksheet, and a number of case studies.

In this activity, students use primary source documents in order to assess the validity of this statement: "British colonial and North American perceptions of each other created exonomic cooperation and social friction between the two groups prior to the American Revolution." Students will write an essay based on their analysis of the documents.

In this lesson, students will define propaganda and study the various types of propaganda techniques. After viewing an assortment of World War II propaganda across different mediums (posters and videos), students will create a piece of World War II propaganda. There is also an optional viewing guide for the Nazi propaganda film, "Triumph of the Will."

This unit is designed to teach about the causes and effects of the Great Depression, and provide an introduction to the use of primary sources in the study of history. This historical discovery approach will emphasize the role of the historian as detective using such skills as observation, discrimination, analysis, and synthesis to research and record history. Students will explore primary sources including photographs, poems, song lyrics, documents, maps, cartoons, as well as, secondary source texts in print and online.

In this lesson, students observe, record, analyze, and interpret a primary source to learn about the effects of the Great Depression. They will also compare and contrast their own lives with those of the children in the photo.

In this lesson, students will observe, analyze, and record observations of primary source photographs from 1933. They will also draw upon previously learned information from the colonial period to learn new information about the depression, bank closings, and how people used the old bartering system and compare and contrast the perspective of two different individuals.

In this lesson, students will present and explain their projects from the previous lesson. They will then practice analyzing another primary source from the same year, but with a different action and setting.

In this lesson, students use online sites to find primary sources from the period. They will then work collaboratively to analyze the primary sources they find and present their analysis to the class.

In this lesson, students pinpoint and list specific problems of the Great Depression using what they have learned from analyzing a variety of primary sources. They will then form research groups to learn about President Frankling Roosevelt and New Deal Legislation using internet sources.

In this lesson, students continue working in their research groups (formed in previous lesson) to learn about additional New Deal programs.

In this lesson, students will learn about the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and read letters written to her by children living during the Great Depression. Students will apply their acquired knowledge creatively by assuming the role of Eleanor Roosevelt and responding to a letter of their choice.

In this lesson, students explore major events occurring at the end of World War II, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the forced relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps, and America’s use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Students will explore primary sources, read poetry and a narrative, and discuss the US government’s choices in depth while examining the affect on America, Japan, and the world community at large.

This lesson plan facilitates discussion with students about the challenges that faced George Washington as the first President of the United States.

Students will analyze documents pertaining to the woman suffrage movement as it intensified following passage of the 15th Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for African American males. Documents were chosen to call attention to the struggle's length, the movement's techniques, and the variety of arguments for and against giving women the vote.

One of the most famous political speeches on freedom in the twentieth century was delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union message to Congress. This lesson examines the rhetorical use of "freedom" with the objective of encouraging students to glimpse the broad range of hopes and aspirations that are expressed in the call of and for freedom.

This lesson focuses on the debates among the U.S. Founders surrounding the distribution of power between states and the federal government. Students learn about the pros and cons of state sovereignty vs. federalism and have the opportunity to argue different sides of the issue.