In this activity, students read a letter about the Battle of Bunker Hill and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

In this lesson, students are given a realistic, first person account through the analysis of two photos of troops living trenches during World War I.

In this activity, students examine a photograph of a famous painting and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

In this lesson, students will collaboratively analyze and compare editorial cartoons focusing on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era drawn by both American and foreign cartoonists. Students will determine the perspective of the cartoon and identify the cartoonists' intentions and evaluate the effectiveness of each cartoon's message. Then, students will synthesize and present their final interpretations.

In this lesson, students learn about the technological and scientific requirements for making the atomic bomb and consider the immediate military and political context of dropping the bomb and the national and global implications of the bomb.

This lesson looks at ways that the ideology of Manifest Destiny expressed both national political objectives and the goals of ordinary men and women who settled the west. Students will explain the economic, political, racial, and religious roots of Manifest Destiny and analyze how the concept influenced the nation’s westward expansion. They will also understand the motivations and expectations of Americans who settled in the West.

In this lesson, students will examine the roles of women during the Civil War: spies, soldiers, and nurses.

In this lesson, students examine the Great War through analysis of primary and secondary sources with an emphasis on different viewpoints and types of mediums. Students will then choose their own medium to demonstrate views of the different countries and the impact of the Great War on individuals.

In this lesson, students will compare John Smith's account of the Powhatan Indians with other primary source material about the Powhatans. They will then compare ideas and facts from each source to determine similarities and differerences.

In this activity, students read a transcript of the Gettysburg Address and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

In this lesson, students will use editorial cartoons dealing with the Nixon and Watergate scandal to understand the role of executive privilege.

In this lesson, students will collaboratively analyze and compare editorial cartoons focusing on the Cold War and nuclear weapons. Students will identify the cartoonists' intentions and evaluate the effectiveness of the message of each cartoon. Then, they will put forward a three to five paragraph essay explaining the assign cartoon packets theme.

In this activity, students examine a painting by Theodore Kaufman and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

In this lesson, students consider how art and drawings from the scientific revolution played a role in the development of the democratic and industrial revolutions.

In this lesson, students will complete a research assignment on a particular president. They will use the Library of Congress website to find the inaugural address of the president and then use the speech and additional research to identify accomplishments that the president made while in office.

This lesson requires students to analyze editorial cartoons focusing on progressive reform and further research the message of the cartoons. Questions accompany the editorial cartoons to guide student research. Students will compare their analysis and research before presenting the consequences of progressive reform. This lesson is designed to conclude with a discussion of the cost of reform leading to the creation of a national income tax through the passage of the 16th Amendment.

In this lesson, students will learn about Prohibition as a restriction of a civil liberty in editorial cartoons. Students will analyze political cartoons from the Prohibition period and research political cartoons of current civil liberties issues. The class will discuss the differences and similarities.

In this lesson, students will use political cartoons to become familiar with the issues of nativism and protectionism, specifically in regard to the era of the Red Scare.

This lesson will guide students to look at the writings of scientists of the Scientific Revolution about the relationship between science and religion. The key point is that the famous confrontation between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church was not typical of the time. Primary sources will give the students insight into how European thinkers did not set out to destroy religion, but instead were interested only in scientific truth.

In this lesson, students will work in small groups to analyze revolutionary thinkers: Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Descartes, Brahe, Kepler. Students will take what they learn in analyzing primary sources and apply it in creating a “Facebook” page for these thinkers. They will choose their thinkers based on which primary source they are most drawn to.