[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson on Mansa Musa uses primary resources for historical investigation. Includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.

This site summarizes what a historian does, what tools they use, and how to prepare to ask a historical question.

Browse through hundreds of historical records, including photos, documents, maps, artwork, video clips, and audio files dating from the 1800s to the present. The Digital Vaults enables visitors to customize their exhibit experience to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary resources to investigate questions and historian claims about the Battle of Thermopylae. Includes downloadable lesson plan, original documents, and PowerPoint.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which learners compare two primary source documents to investigate how people experienced or understood the plague in 1348. Inlcudes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.

Lessons using primary sources to figure out what happened in the past allows students to examine and perhaps crack the mysteries that swirl around Byrd and his expedition to Antarctica to this day. Primary sources are available on the...

The controversy still is hotly debated! Who reached the North Pole first? Young scholars can use primary documents and put on a mock trial to discuss the claims of Cook and Peary. Using the 21st-century skill of critical analysis, they...

Finding primary sources can be difficult and confusing at times. This site provides a list of history databases, rare books and manuscripts, and research guides for those looking for primary resources such as diaries, letters,...

Most learners are unaware of the historical significances that can be found in their immediate surroundings. This lesson plan sends students on a quest to seek out areas of historical significance that can be found within their local...

Investigate the historic epidemic and pandemic diseases such as the Plague of Athens, Black Death, Spanish flu, cholera, and smallpox on this site.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to investigate the photographs of 19th-century progressive...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students read six different sources that provide insight into what happened at Haymarket Square...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. For this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. For this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...

Explore scientific methods for evaluating historical events by investigating four reasons behind the mysterious deaths that occurred in the early days of the colony of Jamestown.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary source material from ancient Greece to determine the extent of its democracy. Includes downloads for teacher materials, student materials, PowerPoint and original...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Examining resources from Palmer and Goldman, students will consider what caused the Palmer Raids after World War I ended. The goal of the Palmer Raids was to incarcerate or deport those left-wing...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In 1925, Tennessee lawmakers passed the Butler Act, explaining that teachers were not to discount Creationism in the classroom. Through documents and discussion provided with this lesson plan, explore...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The Dust Bowl of the 1930's in the United States is often a topic of great debate. What caused the phenomenon of storms? Was it the government or Mother Nature or a combination of the two? This lesson...

[Free Registration/Login Required] How necessary was it for the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War II? In this lesson, students will study varying accounts and develop their own opinions of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] After reviewing documents related to United States and Soviet Union national leadership, students will discuss the reasons Russia extracted their missiles from Cuba.

[Free Registration/Login Required] JFK was known for being supportive of the Civil Rights Movement. In this lesson plan, learners will review two speeches and evaluate the devotion the President had to civil rights.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students analyze original documents to evaluate the conflict between colonists under King Philip and Native Americans.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary sources from Progressive Era about the Settlement House Movement. Includes downloadable teacher materials, student materials, and primary source documents.