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This page features resources relating to medieval literature, and presents information about the works of Chaucer and Dante. Learn more about these authors and Europe during Middle Ages by…
A free, interactive curriculum for middle and high-school students and their educators that features individual testimonies of thirteen people who were adolescents during the Holocaust.
Explore the great Hispanic poets, from 1600 to present.
Descubre algunos de los más grandes poetas hispanos.
Emily Dickinson, now widely recognized (alongside Walt Whitman) as among the first American poetic voices, published only a handful of poems in her lifetime. In fact, much of Dickinson’s reclusive…
The Mexican Revolution, which began on November 20, 1910, and continued for a decade, is recognized as the first major political, social, and cultural revolution of the 20th century. In order to…
A guide to Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark work surveying American republicanism in the 1830s.
Give your students a treat and explore the ghostly historical and the ghoulishly dramatic with a variety of online resources on Halloween.
This National Poetry Month feature educates students about different poetic forms developed across time and around the world.
Learn about harvest holidays in North America like Halloween and a similar Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead.
Each year, December brings a month filled with holidays, celebrations complete with a variety of gift giving traditions, and school vacations. Before departing to enjoy the break from school, take…
Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.
In Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom,” players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-…
Adapted from What So Proudly We Hail provides background materials and discussion questions to enhance your understanding and stimulate conversation about “To Build A Fire.” After learning about…
The Greeks inherited the alphabet invented by the Phoenicians, and used it to write their great literature.
Activity One. Protest: Why and How?
A. Imagine that the local or federal government has passed the following laws and respond to the questions below.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became the greatest abolitionist orator of the antebellum period. During the Civil War he worked tirelessly for the emancipation of the four…
¡Hora de audio comprensión de lectura con EDSITEment! Visite EDSITEment para saber en donde se encuentran los mejores recursos para el aprendizaje del español!
On April 11, 1898, two months after the battleship U.S.S. Maine was destroyed by an explosion in Havana harbor, President McKinley sent a message to Congress requesting authority to use…
Perhaps the best-known pilgrim in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is Alisoun, the Wife of Bath. The Wife's fame derives from Chaucer's deft characterization of her as a brassy, bawdy woman—the…
Extra! Extra! Fire Destroys Chicago!: Analyzing Newspaper Accounts
Right Before My Eyes: Analyzing Eyewitness Accounts.
Read both the brief description of The Emancipation Proclamation and the transcript of the document from the National Archives below.
Examine Lincoln's March 6, 1862 message to Congress and his July 12, 1862 appeal to border-state Congressmen.
Read the letter from the Mother of a Northern Black Soldier to the President, July 31, 1863 and consider the questions that follow.
Begin by reading "‘Art [and History] by Lightning Flash’: The Birth of a Nation and Black Protest," which provides important background about the film.
Mission US (Mission 1: Crown or Colony?) is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. The first game in a…
Begin the lesson by assigning students to either read or view Twelve Angry Men. Distribute the following questions beforehand. These same questions may serve as the basis for either group…
By 1900, there were more than 29 million people in the American workforce including men, women, and children. Americans worked an average of 59 hours per week and usually received Saturday…
Composition in Painting: Everything in its right place.