Women have made vital but often little-known contributions to American history. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes that examine artifacts which provide clues to how women have ...

Lesson Plans for high school and middle school include language arts, history, and science. Curricula in the language arts, social studies, and science tie content with character education. Both free ...

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the complex challenge of telling America’s story. They ...

YORK, Maine — If all goes as state and local educators hope, the coming school year will prove formative not only for Maine's current students but also for the lesson plans their teachers will use in ...