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What does the say about sovereignty? Learn about this complex and enduring issue in our teacher's guide.

Commemorating Constitution Day September 17th is Constitution Day, commemorating the day in 1787 when, at the end of a long hot summer of discussion, debate and deliberation, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed America’s most important document.

What did the American Revolution mean for Americans? Learn how different groups responded to events during & after the war in this lesson plan.

Native Americans and the American Revolution: Choosing Sides Native American groups had to choose the loyalist or patriot cause—or somehow maintain a neutral stance during the Revolutionary War. Students will analyze maps, treaties, congressional records, first-hand accounts, and correspondence to determine the different roles assumed by Native Americans in...

How can understanding language help us understand other cultures?

This curriculum about Hopi heritage explores as an important part of cultural identity.

Language of Place: Hopi Place Names, Poetry, Traditional Dance and Song A curriculum unit of three lessons in which students explore Hopi place names, poetry, song, and traditional dance to better understand the ways Hopi people connect with the land and environment through language. The unit is centered on the practice of growing corn. Students make inferences about la...

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It’s ! We’ll be sharing resources all month to commemorate and celebrate peoples and cultures.



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American Indian History and Heritage This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

The tale of the Headless Horseman is now a classic but few Americans celebrated that holiday when the story was new. Use this lesson to ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween: What happened to Ichabod Crane?

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Students explore the artistry that helped make Washington Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween--What happened to Ichabod Crane?

To what extent did forge ?

This Teacher’s Guide provides questions to frame a unit, along with activities that use newspapers and resources for history, literature, and music education.

The Reconstruction Era This Teacher’s Guide provides compelling questions to frame a unit of study and inquiry projects on the Reconstruction Era, includes NEH sponsored multimedia resources, activity ideas that include use of newspapers from the time and interdisciplinary approaches to bring social studies, ELA, and mu...

Why do you think ’s story is not well known?

This resource recognizes the consequences of the absence of sites associated with and underscores the challenges of conducting historical research on enslaved people.

The Long Road to Freedom: Biddy Mason’s Remarkable Journey Long Road to Freedom is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that documents the transformative journey of Biddy Mason from enslavement in Georgia to becoming a landowner and community organizer in Los Angeles.

Consider the multiple perspectives of the through the popular literature of the time by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more!

Literature of the Civil War Read and discuss some of the great American writers and their work in the mid-19th century. This feature explores the themes of slavery, the role of women, and the experience of war.

Only two weeks until ! Will you be ready to commemorate and celebrate peoples and cultures? Get started with our teacher’s guide here:

American Indian History and Heritage This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

in 1884, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born.

She was a key figure in several of the most important movements of the 20th c.: the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the struggle for racial justice, and the U.N.

Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s This lesson asks students to explore the various roles that Eleanor Roosevelt a key figure in several of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century took on, among them: First Lady, political activist for civil rights, newspaper columnist and author, and representative to the...