Back Story Radio: The War of 1812: Which One Was That?

Students write 1-4 sentence answers to the Time Travel worksheet (available online). They design period costumes, orally present their perspectives to the rest of the class, and explain why this war played an important role in the...

Free Trade and Sailor's Rights! Pupils dive into America's first declared war, the War of 1812. They analyze the presidencies of Jefferson and Madison through diary entries and historical reasoning. To conclude the lesson, they use their...

What was the Truman administration's position on foreign policy during the Cold War? Class members respond to an excerpt from President Harry S. Truman's "Truman Doctrine" with three questions in the space provided.

Complete with territory maps, photos, and interesting anecdotes, this video covers the major events of American History, roughly from 1754 to 1865. Plymouth and Jamestown are mentioned in the beginning of the video, but the speaker...

While the War of 1812 may not have resulted in any great shift of territories, it did have significant effects on Native Americans and the status of the United States as an independent nation. Review the major events and lasting...

Luckily for those who aren't history buffs, anyone can guess that the War of 1812 happened in ... 1812. But how to cover the rest of the story? The resource does just that with effective direct instruction that includes statistics,...

Here is a series of four lessons which explore the old one-room schoolhouses that were prevalent in days gone by. The lessons look into the economic, geographic, and cultural contributions that led to their building. Learners make...

BackStory Radio podcast in which the American History Guys and their guest peer through the history and explore what happens on the home front during war explaining the controversies surrounding them.

Rebroadcast of Part I of a two part series on the beginnings of the Civil War in which the American History Guys discuss the six months prior to Lincoln's election and the road to war. Audio and transcripts are provided in segments.

BackStory episode [52 min. 52 sec.] commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War focusses on the six months between Abraham Lincoln's election and the outbreak of the Civil War.