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This lesson focuses on the experiences of Dennis DuPuis, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam …

While there is no specific provision in the U.S. Constitution authorizing congressional oversight or inve…

This lesson highlights several examples of Queen Elizabeth II's relationships with various U.S. president…

While there is no specific provision in the U.S. Constitution authorizing congressional oversight or inve…

This lesson highlights the impact of 1970s labor movements then and now. The lesson, which features Wayne…

While there is no specific provision in the U.S. Constitution authorizing congressional oversight or inve…

In this lesson, students join in on a C-SPAN American History TV to the U.S. State Department’s Diplomati…

Starting on March 19, 1979, the cable television industry started C-SPAN as a public service providing un…

This lesson highlights several examples of love letters to/from Presidents of the United States. The less…

This lesson highlights the life and career of film star Charlie Chaplin and how his life was affected by …

In 1774, Englishman Thomas Paine arrived in America as the conflict between the colonies and Great Britai…

This lesson highlights the modern-day evolution of the First Lady of the United States. The lesson, which…

This lesson features several notable examples of historic presidential campaign speeches, based on C-SPAN…

This lesson highlights over 15 letters sent from African Americans to President Abraham Lincoln. The less…

This lesson highlights the life and work of author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. The lesson, which …

This lesson highlights the role and impact of portrait photography during and after the American Civil Wa…

This lesson details the history of the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, an African American man hanged on a…

In this lesson, students will view videos of author Chris Serb discussing the development of professional…

This lesson provides an overview of American Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the …

This lesson provides an overview of how the life and leadership of Founding Father John Hancock. The less…

In her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston brings to life a southern love story that…

Dolley Madison was influential during her time in Washington, D.C. She helped shape the political and soc…

This lesson provides an overview of how the United States and the Soviet Union both shaped literature fro…

Using a collection of artifacts from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's collection, this lesson provi…

This lesson provides an overview of the racial integration of Shaker Heights, Ohio and its school system.…

This lesson provides an overview of the 1869 state-level case Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Paul Schoep…

Throughout history, leaders have had to make decisions that have impacted our communities, nation, and th…

In this lesson, students will explore the intersection of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution an…

This lesson provides an overview of the World War Two Battle of the Atlantic (1939-45). The lesson, which…

Born in Yuma, Arizona, César Chávez began his working life as a manual laborer. After serving in the U.S.…

This lesson provides an overview of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's White House restoration and her Valen…

This lesson provides an overview of the U.S. Supreme Court during World War Two. The lesson, which featur…

This lesson, which features historian Richard Striner, author of "Ike in Love and War," provides an overv…

In her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston brings to life a southern love story that…

This lesson provides an overview of the history and impact of the AR-15 firearm and features Zusha Elinso…

Willa Cather's novel, "My Ántonia," evokes the Nebraska prairie life of her childhood and pays tribute to…

This lesson provides an overview of George Washington's decision to mandate smallpox inoculation for the …

In the 1840s, Rhode Island was still being governed by the Royal Charter of 1663, and some residents felt…

This lesson provides an overview of the disappearance of the Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 ship on Lake Er…

Named among the great American novels, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been known internationally si…

After serving in the Civil War, during which he was wounded, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became a scholar …

This lesson provides an overview of the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), with a focus on …

This lesson provides a few examples of letters from African Americans during the Civil War era. The lesso…

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, statesman and key l…

Shortly after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and W…

In September 1787, the newly drafted Constitution of the United States was sent to the states for ratific…

In 1774, Englishman Thomas Paine arrived in America as the conflict between the colonies and Great Britai…

This inquiry-based lesson has students consider which book has shaped America. The lesson opens with refl…

This lesson provides an overview of the history of American music from the late-1700s through the mid-190…

As the United States became embroiled in World War 2, there was concern that Germany was going to develop…

This lesson provides an overview of the history of the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School in Clint…

Is that myth about the White House true? This lesson, which features White House Historical Association h…

This lesson highlights the work of battlefield guide Jeffrey Harding and Penn State University professor …

Born in Silver, South Carolina to parents who were sharecroppers, Althea Gibson's family moved to Harlem,…

This inquiry design model (IDM) lesson focuses on the the time period of 1787-1815, and has students addr…

This inquiry design model (IDM) lesson focuses on the the time period of 1754-1786, and has students addr…

This case study and oral history based lesson focuses on the experiences of World War II veteran John “Lu…

Ashley Whitehead Luskey, assistant director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, discusses elit…

This lesson provides an overview of the history of the collection and repatriation of Native American art…

This lesson provides students with a variety of viewpoints related to concerns in the live entertainment …

This lesson provides an overview of the contributions, challenges, and lasting legacies of Black American…

This lesson provides an overview of the history of parking in the United States and its connection to man…

This lesson provides an overview of the life of Major General Philip Kearny, an Army officer notable for …

This lesson provides an overview of the life and work of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dir…

Parochial? Segregated? Shattered? Deadly? Which of these words most accurately describe the "story of the…

This lesson provides an overview of Ohio's dynasty of U.S. Presidents, focusing on the five men from the …

This lesson provides an overview of the Vietnam War era, using the life and death of Huey helicopter pilo…

This lesson provides an overview of the 1990s through an exploration of several proposed zeitgeists, or "…

This lesson explores the Presidential Records Act (1978), its provisions, related complications, and impa…

On June 6, 1944, 156,000 Allied troops participated in the largest air, sea, and land operation in the hi…

This lesson uses an urban stream and its surrounding landscape in Columbia, South Carolina to link landsc…

This lesson presents an overview of America's six living generations. The lesson, which features San Dieg…

This lesson explores the legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson. The lesson, which features author Rebecca Bog…

At age 27, Benjamin Ferencz served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials for the case agai…

This lesson focuses on the history of the bald eagle, particularly its evolving status as an American sym…

This lesson explores the legacy of President Jimmy Carter. The lesson, which features Marquette Universit…

This lesson explores famous examples of speeches from American First Ladies. The lesson, which features a…

This lesson features several notable examples of 'speeches that defined a presidency,' based on C-SPAN's …

This lesson features a virtual tour of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Museum, a location not norma…

This lesson focuses on the American 'Red Scare' of the 1940s and 50s. The lesson, which features Universi…

This lesson focuses on daily life during the American industrial age of the late 19th century and early 2…

This lesson focuses on the life and career of Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Montes, who was a s…

This lesson focuses on William and Ellen Craft's 1848 escape from enslavement in Macon, Georgia. The less…

This lesson focuses on the history of U.S. government secrecy and related modern issues. The lesson, whic…

This lesson focuses on the history, role, and legacy of the "The Negro Motorist Green Book." The lesson, …

This lesson focuses on the relationship between food, culture, and politics in the American Presidency. T…

This lesson focuses on the history of presidential State of the Union addresses. The lesson, which featur…

This lesson features a historical reenactment of the Second Virginia Convention (1775), in which Patrick …

This lesson focuses on historical message-in-a-bottle notes. The lesson, which features author Ric Mixter…

In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till and his cousin Reverend Wheeler Parker left their hometown …

This lesson focuses on the evolution of American museums in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. The l…

In this lesson, students watch a video clip from C-SPAN's Reel America series, which features archival fo…

This lesson focuses on the mix of Union and Confederate support in Maryland during the American Civil War…

This lesson focuses on the emergence of American nationalism in the early 1800s and Daniel Webster's role…

This lesson focuses on the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and its impact on American funeral practices. The l…

This lesson focuses on World War I, and employs the examination of letters from American Army Private Joh…

In this lesson, students will hear Western History Association President David Wrobel talking about novel…

This lesson focuses on Christian nightlife in 1970s California and the broader evangelical movement of th…

This lesson focuses on the 1977 Hanafi Siege of Washington D.C., in which Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and member…

This lesson focuses on the Bethlehem Steel Company's 1918 Baseball League during World War I. The lesson,…