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March 4, 1917

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Students analyze archival cartoons, posters, magazine humor, newspaper articles and poems that reflect the deeply entrenched attitudes and beliefs the early crusaders for women’s rights had to overcome.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?
Students compile information to examine hypotheses explaining why the first nine states to grant full voting rights for women were located in the West.

March 4, 1865

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
The newly re-elected Abraham Lincoln sought to unite the American people by interpreting the waning conflict as a divine judgment upon both sides of the war. This lesson will examine Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address to determine how he sought to reunite a divided country through a providential interpretation of the Civil War.

March 4, 1933

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
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 United Nations.

March 4, 1861

Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lesson 2: The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union
Abraham Lincoln felt that the attempt of seven states to leave the American union peacefully was, in fact, a total violation of law and order. This lesson will examine Lincoln's First Inaugural Address to understand why he thought his duty as president required him to treat secession as an act of rebellion and not a legitimate legal or constitutional action by disgruntled states.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lincoln Goes to War
Relive the decisions that led to the attack on Fort Sumter to determine whether Lincoln aimed to preserve peace or provoke the hostilities that led to the Civil War.
Lesson Plan / History & Social Studies
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: We Must Not Be Enemies
Students explore the historical context and significance of Lincoln's inaugural address through archival documents.