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Teacher's Guides

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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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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823.

The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy

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

The Constitutional Convention of 1787

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57

Picturing America: Jacob Lawrence and Martin Puryear

George Washington at Verplanck's Point by John Trumbull

The American War for Independence

"We the People" inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.

The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?

The American flag flies prominently during the World Patriot Tour performance at Hickam Air Force Base.

Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day

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

Image of the U.S. flag and the U.S. Constitution with the words "We the People" in the forefront. 

A Day for the Constitution

Diagram of the US Federal Government and American Union, 1862.

The Federalist and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

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Ask an NEH Expert: Validating Sources
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Exploring Local History with Clio