Historical Society of Pennsylvania: William Bauchop Wilson Papers [Pdf]

A fantastic teacher resource tool for helping students understand the significance of the Boston Massacre as an event that propelled America into a war for independence with England.

Find out how the people of the United States, and Wisconsin in particular, stepped up to help the war effort in World War I. Read about the way industries retooled to produce wartime goods and see brochures that advertised Liberty Bonds.

Teachers will find this a superb guide book for teaching students how to critically examine documents from the past. The guide contains lessons and resources for Wisconsin history but the teaching methodology can be adapted for anywhere.

This brief biography of Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of Labor, William Wilson, introduces the information available about his correspondence and other important writings housed at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

William Penn's Charter of Privileges, which formed the framework for the government of Pennsylvania, is still a living document today. Read about its history and its influence on the Liberty Bell.

Uses primary source documents and images to trace the evolving concept of what it means to be American, from the Revolution through the civil rights era.

"This website presents images of the 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams's diary in the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Adams began keeping his diary, more than 14,000 pages, in 1779 at the age of twelve and...

This very brief biography gives a look at the life, especially his life in politics, of William Bauchop Wilson, Secretary of Labor in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet.

A resource filled with primary source materials, posters that promoted support for World War I. Included is a worksheet that can be used to analyze any of the resources, all of which are PDF files.

Read about the political life of William B. Wilson and find out why he was a good fit as the first Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of Woodrow Wilson.