10 things everyone should know about American history, articles and resources to prepare students to be informed and engaged citizens.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
A collection of veteran's chronicles, oral histories, documentaries, educational programs, civic events, and a WWII High School Curriculum that can be used by teachers and students to supplement their knowledge of the importance World War II played in both American and World History. This site also includes Youth Leadership Summits where veterans share their lessons and experiences with an audience of hundreds of students from military service academies and more than two dozen ROTC programs from across the country, as well as internship opportunities for Higher Education.
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Citizenship
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Online Platform
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
- Higher Education
Professional development opportunities: teaching American history resources, core documents curriculum, lesson plans, document library, and Master of Arts programs for teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
A platform for teachers with current events and voting resources, landmark Supreme Court cases teaching tools, founding documents online resources and curriculum, digital textbooks, teacher councils, and professional development opportunities.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
A digital lesson library and professional development platform for teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Online Platform
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
Contests, music, games, and theatrical debates and forums for teachers to use for interactive classroom activities.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
A platform where educators can find published educational books, curricula, and lesson materials in language arts, history and geography, music, science and visual arts.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
A teacher-friendly online tool for teaching with America's founding documents, from the National Archives.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Original Documents
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
A National Endowment for the Humanities site with K-12 teacher guides, lesson plans, videos, podcasts, lectures, interactives for the classroom, and film projects.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
- Technology
Games, lesson plans, professional development opportunities, tools for teaching controversial topics and a wide curriculum for civic education.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Technology
On-campus workshops for educators and collaboration with other historic sites, museums, federal agencies, and nonprofits to offer additional workshop and training opportunities on or off campus, as well as teacher lesson plans and field-trip opportunities.
Subjects
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Democracy
- Founding
- Constitution
- Elections
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Podcasts, programs and seminars for teachers as well as exhibitions, educational resources and field-trip opportunities for K-12.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- 1776
Resource Types
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Lesson plans, distance learning DVDs and videos, online collections with an array of Washington and Mount Vernon artifacts, field-trips, integrating primary sources in the classroom resources, and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Democracy
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- 1776
- 1619
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Online Platform
- Technology
Teacher lesson plans and guides, professional development workshops, teacher summer institutes, and virtual field trips.
Subjects
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Online Platform
- Technology
Documents, photos and records on America's history, tools for teaching students to analyze primary sources, resources for online-learning and online libraries, Hispanic-Latinx Historical records, professional development opportunities, events, public programs and distance learning sessions.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Online exhibitions and tours, interactive Constitution, educational videos, teacher blogs and podcasts, classroom exchanges, interactive games, craft activities, historical documents and primary sources archive.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
Resource Types
- Online
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
- Technology
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
Tuition-free development opportunities and workshops for K-12 educators and higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Videos, documentaries and classroom activity ideas for kids.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Constitution
- 1776
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
- Higher Education
Virtual teacher library, webinars, videos, student contests and links to research sites to help students conduct research, primary source resources and lesson plans, U.S. and world history classrooms, including a World War I resource book, Understand Sacrifice program, and the Making History Series.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
Webinars, lesson plans, primary and secondary sources for literature and history teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Curated resources for teaching American history through online historical exhibitions, lesson plans, document seminars, multi-media and homeschool resources.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
Games, videos, classroom collections, traveling trunks, curriculum and lesson plans, and professional development for teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
Resources, videos and lesson plans from CER's past in-person programs in Washington, D.C. covering various civics and history topics, under which are: the Constitution, Hamilton's vision, the Founding Fathers and Presidency, Citizenship and Suffrage, Military, Memorial and Flag days.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
Constitutional index and crash courses, documents, videos, and lesson plans, Virtual Supreme Court Competition for High School Students, videos and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
- Technology
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
Theatrical plays, curricula, essays, lesson plans, videos, study plans, online exhibitions, and teaching resources on African American History, American Indian History, Art, Music and Film, Economics, Global History and US Foreign Policy, Government and Civics, Immigration and Migration, Literature and Language Arts, Military History, Reform Movements, Religion and Women's History.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
Learn and teach important stories of United States history through the lens of the White House through live history episodes, virtual tours, a digital library, classroom activities, videos, and ready-to-use education materials for K-12 instruction.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Games
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
- Technology
Toolkits and lesson plans, English literacy and civics education resources, curricula and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Online
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Online Platform
- Technology
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
- Higher Education
Multimedia storytelling, videos, photos, live events and quizzes.
Topics
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Citizenship
- Elections
Resource Types
- Online
- Videos
- Online Platform
Research project ideas, lesson plans, activity sheets and guides, essays, Capitol tours for Middle and High School students, virtual exhibits and maps, video tours, statue guides and games for in-person and virtual classrooms.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Founding
- Citizenship
- Branches of Government
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- 1776
- 1619
- Slavery
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Lesson Plan
- Book/Physical Material
- Activities/Project Ideas
Grade Levels
- Elementary
- Middle
- High School
A unique platform to explore the women’s suffrage story through online exhibits, webinars, historic performers, podcasts and an online library.
Subjects
- Civics
- American Government
- History
Topics
- Peaceful Assembly
- Protest
- Democracy
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Citizenship
- Constitution
- Elections
- Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- Suffrage
Resource Types
- Online
- Book/Physical Material
- Videos
- Activities/Project Ideas
- Original Documents
- Online Platform
- Technology
