Instructional Video
Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: Diagramming the u.s. Constitution: Interpretation

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to diagram the Contitution of the United States to aid in interpreting the meaning of this document.
Instructional Video
PBS

Open Vault: Wgbh Media Library and Archives

9th - 10th Standards
Ever-expanding archive of historically significant video, audio, images, and transcripts produced by public educational television and radio broadcaster WGBH. Search for primary sources to support and inform studies in history, the arts...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ken Burns in the Classroom: Collection

9th - 10th Standards
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...
Audio
Library of Congress

Loc: War Ends Vj Day

9th - 10th
Letters and stories from soldiers as the recall and record their feelings on the day Japan surrendered.
Instructional Video
Indiana University

The Center on Congress: Congressional Moments: Hear From Experts

9th - 10th Standards
Hear expert advice on how to analyze primary sources then use what you learned to analyze the photograph shown.
Instructional Video
Other

Gale Family Library: Primary vs. Secondary Resources

9th - 10th Standards
Video explains the difference between primary and secondary sources with examples from the Minnesota Historical Society's collections. [4:18]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Read a Document: Source Identification

9th - 10th Standards
What's the difference between a primary source and a secondary source? Khan Academy's historian Kim Kutz Elliott and grammarian David Rheinstrom discuss reading sources by examining Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address....
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How to Read a Document: Analyzing a Historical Text

9th - 10th Standards
How do historians analyze sources from the past? Khan Academy's historian Kim Kutz Elliott and grammarian David Rheinstrom continue their conversation about how to interpret Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address. [13:48]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Declaration of Independence

9th - 10th
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence is examined through Enlightenment philosopher, John Locke.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Effects of Transatlantic Voyages From 1492 1607

9th - 10th
Explores how historians determine causes and effects as related to transatlantic voyages and contact between Europe, Africa, and Americas between 1492 and 1607.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Treaty of Fort Laramie: The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana's Gold

9th - 10th
The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly-discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. Cutting through the heart of Indian country, it provoked a clash of cultures that exploded into warfare, destruction, and tragedy. In the...