An examination of the process of campaigning and electioneering through partisan artifacts, symbols and ballots in ten featured elections.

It is important that students be good citizens and play and understand the people who campaign various issues in their environment. This particular unit identifies some fine campaigners who used their religion to influence their lives....

Photographic exhibit explores the final days of Steve Biko, the South African black rights campaigner and anti-apartheid activist who died in 1977 at the age of 31.

This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.

Campaign website of Donald Trump, candidate for president, 2016, offers information on issues and other details of his campaign.

This youth organization is committed to fighting global poverty. The site requires registration in order to access the tools it provides for young people wanting to make a difference. But there is plenty of information on issues such as...

From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes what Asa Whitney did to promote the idea of a transcontinental railroad in the North. His efforts provoked the South into campaigning for...

The League of Women Voters offers a step-by-step process of evaluating public officials for voting and election purposes. The process points out elements to look for in both a candidate's experience and campaigning behaviors. Potential...

Suffragists lobbied hard for the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, and here is an example of how Texas suffragists campaigned for the cause. Check out this sample questionnaire sent by the Texas members of the National American...

This unit is a collection of four lessons that lead students from learning about oil spills and the impact human activities have on the environment and wildlife, to actively campaigning for laws to protect wildlife from oil spills and...

A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the Truman-Dewey election of 1948. Young scholars learn how Truman and Dewey campaigned, how they got their messages across to the...

Richard Nixon claimed to have a secret plan to end the Vietnam War when he was campaigning for president in 1968. See what that secret plan was and read about how it extended the war by another four years and galvanized anti-war...

A biography of Toledo and how he is doing a poor job as president of Peru. The article describes how he was able to get elected in the 2000 campaign. The article is dated 2004.

Check out this Social Security Administration site to read the original 1912 platform of the Progressive Party. From this page you can access original audio and video clips of Teddy Roosevelt campaigning.

A map of the United States during the heated presidential election of 1856, showing the States carried by the Republican Party (John Fremont), Democrat Party (James Buchanan), and the newly formed American Party, or 'Know-Nothing’ Party...

A map of the United States during the heated presidential election of 1856, showing the States carried by the Republican Party (John Fremont), Democrat Party (James Buchanan), and the newly formed American Party, or 'Know-Nothing’ Party...

A nicely done biography of the famous British anti-slavery campaigner in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Edward the Black Prince wearing full armor during the fourteenth century. He was the eldest son of King Edward III, and campaigned in Norway and Spain.

A member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century.

Davitt was an Irish campaigner and politician who was a nationalist. He founded the National Land League.

William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 - June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States. When Congress voted a pay raise in 1873 and made it retroactive for five years, Wheeler not...

Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

An image of Tammy Duckworth.