[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students use evidence to explore whether Pocahontas actually saved John Smith's life and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson about the Great Awakening allows students to critically examine three...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to use four historical sources to build a more textured...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Who were the Loyalists? Why did they oppose independence? In this historical inquiry lesson, students seek answers to these questions by sourcing, contextualizing, and corroborating two documents...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources on Ibn Battuta includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, graphic organizer, and original documents.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to source, corroborate, and contextualize speeches from...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students weigh contrasting interpretations by prominent historians to answer the question: Why...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to explore causes of the Battle of Little Bighorn by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage literature to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are given an opportunity to look at two textbooks recalling the same event, but one is written in and for North Korean schools and the other in and for South Korean schools. After reviewing the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.

Information on design issues for online documentation. Includes basic considerations for planning online documentation.

The main site is huge with interactive links to different time periods, archival documents, photos, and artifacts. This section focuses on the time period 1600-1867 which included the first interactions between First Nations and...

In this activity, students will analyze a primary source document to find relevant historical data and measure the degree of agreement and disagreement during the Constitutional Convention.

A complete transcript of an interview with Malcolm X from 1963, before he left the Nation of Islam, in which he explains his earlier-articulated condemnations of white America.

Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.

This site explains the difference between a primary and secondary source. It also provides students with questions to ask when gathering evidence about a primary source document.

It was the goal of reporter L. Hubbard to complete an expedition into the interior of Labrador where no white man had previously gone. The exhibit profiles his ill-fated journey as well as the later successful one of his wife, Mina....

In this activity students will identify and define seven key ideas contained in the U.S. Constitution by making matches from the grid. They will then analyze documents that demonstrate each big idea in action.

Learners will examine several historical congressional records from the Reconstruction period to assess whether they show evidence that the Reconstruction period of American history should or should not be viewed as a revolution. The...

For this activity students will analyze the Declaration of Intention for Albert Einstein and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article I, sections 8-10 of the Constitution in action.

In this activity students will analyze the Senate Journal of the First Congress and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article II of the Constitution in action.

For this activity students will analyze the Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article IV of the Constitution in action.