While the Iranian Hostage Crisis was a watershed moment, few history classes take on the complex series of events leading up to it. Using declassified documents, including a hostage's diary, young historians create their own reports to...

A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Reuben's Hindrances and How He Made Them Helps Progress, a fiction book for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Harold's Helps, or, The Pearl of Prayers by Mrs. R.M. Wilbur (c1887), an illustrated children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lizzy Johnson, or, Mutual Help by B. C. G. (1883), a children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Helping Himself, or, Grant Thornton's Ambition by Horatio Alger, Jr. (1886), a novel about the determination of Grant, a 15-year-old farmer's boy whose father has...

Letters by African Americans seeking help to leave the South. They explore issues including identity, family, community, and the struggles induced by the need to migrate north.

Original photographs highlight the New Deal programs intended to aid families and individuals during the Great Depression.

This poem explains how the monkey crosses a river without getting hurt.

This is a speech given by Kurt L. Schmoke, the Mayor of Baltimore. He states why he feels that school vouchers are the right choice for education. A great perspective from a public servant who played a large role in improving education...

An interview illustrating some of the ways community functioned in the lives of African Americans. It explores how external pressures of racism brought African Americans together to form fraternal organizations and entire towns.

This is the text and audio of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852, that was said to "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." It was the best-selling novel of the 19th...

This five-stanza poem shares a story of a boy helping his father retrieving a dog that had fallen down a well.

Links to several examples of expository essays in order to better understand the process and end result of a well written expository essay.

This resource provides information about anger and aggression.

Slaves in Massachusetts had access to the court system, and in some cases, it helped them gain their freedom. Read the stories of several of them, and find out how the Fugitive Slave Law either helped or hindered them.

From the National Council of Teachers of English, "this document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use." Use this site to help you...

You can listen to or read an interview with a woman who was a strike supporter during the Colorado Coal strike. In this interview she recalls how she helped save women and children during the Ludlow Massacre in April, 1914.

A collection of 13 primary resources with questions for discussion and links to supplemental material about the various forms of protest undertaken by African Americans in pursuit of civil rights and how it helped shape identity.

An account of how World War II changed the lives of not just the soldiers, but also the people on the homefront. Find out how their daily life changed, and how they helped in the war effort. Includes many photos, questions to think...

An in-depth discussion on the constitutionality of the Social Security Act and the 1937 Supreme Court decisions that helped settle it.

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Winter's Tale. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Helpful resources are found at the end of each scene. Related articles...

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy Pericles, Prince of Tyre. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Helpful resources are found at the end of each scene. Related...

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Full explanatory notes and study questions are found at the end of the...

Advice on child rearing and parenting from the famous Lydia Maria Child reads like an early version of today's self-help parenting books. The entire text is available here.