EDSITEment's Picturing America Resource Index
Newberry Library Podcasts on Edward Hopper and Albert Bierstadt; Companion Hopper Lesson Plan
Literature:
19th Century American Literature Index
After School:
Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
History:
Advanced Placement US History Lessons
Teaching Abraham Lincoln EDSITEment Student Interactive Index

Indexes of lesson plans, features, and websites with common special feature themes.

Karales: March from Selma to Montgomery

James Karales’s majestic image, the Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights,1965”  from the Picturing America portfolio, is proof of American moral conscience in action and illustrates the spirit of the civil rights movement. Teachers Resource Book. More . . .

JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s

Bring the voices of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson into your classroom as they strategize how to move the country forward toward greater equality of opportuntiy in the 1960s. More . . .

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Celebrate Women’s History Month with a study of American writer Zora Neal Hurston’s life and times…. Alice Walker’s tribute to her, which lies near Hurston’s unmarked grave, reads: "A Genius of the South"1901 [sic] – 1960 Novelist, Folklorist Anthropologist … Delve into the folklore and folklife that permeates her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and have students record their own oral history. More . . .

NEH-funded and other PBS features with relevant EDSITEment resources.

American Experience: Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison defined the role of the President’s wife, became America’s first First Lady, and in the process changed the face of the American presidency. Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies. Also, Women in the White House.

More connections:
Native Americans, Afghanistan, Modern Presidents, Camelot, WWII, Whitman, and More. . .

NEH's Humanities Magazine

January/February
From the origins of Old English to the works of William Blake, a feast for your mind and your classroom.