Driving excellence in humanities education

Lesson Plans

Classroom-ready lessons and materials for K-12 education

Teacher's Guides

Resource collections and activity ideas for humanities educators
Lesson Plan

Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
Teacher's Guide

Digital Humanities and Online Education
Teacher's Guide

Advanced Placement U.S. History Lessons
Teacher's Guide

"Not of an age, but for all time": Teaching Shakespeare
Teacher's Guide

Investigating Local History
Teacher's Guide

Spanish Language Learning Resources

A More Perfect Union
Resources about American

History, Civics, and Culture

 

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George Washington at Verplanck's Point by John Trumbull

The American War for Independence

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was instrumental in shifting the argument from accommodation with Britain to outright independence for the American colonies.

"Common Sense": The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy

American Flamingo, John Audubon, 1838.

Picturing America: John James Audubon

Declaration of Independence: July 4th 1776

Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence

The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton December 26, 1776 by John Trumbull.

Advanced Placement U.S. History Lessons

Statue of Chief Justice John Marshall outside the West entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and Judicial Review

"The Boating Party," Mary Cassatt, 1893/1894.

Picturing America: Cassatt and Sargent

Washington at Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U.S. Constitution.

Commemorating Constitution Day

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

The National Parks and History

Mary Kincheon Edwards, Age 127

Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

Ask an NEH Expert: Validating Sources
Media Resource

Exploring Local History with Clio