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Strengthening the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture.

Lesson Plans:
Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken”
Lesson 1: Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)—The Purpose of the American Union
Lesson 2: The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union
Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union
Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
African-Americans and the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps
American Diplomacy in World War II
Lesson 1: How “Grand” and “Allied” was the Grand Alliance?
Lesson 2: How to Win a World War
Lesson 3: Victory and the New Order in Europe
Lesson 4: The New Order for “Greater East Asia”
The American War for Independence
Lesson 1: The War in the North, 1775-1778
Lesson 2: The War in the South, 1778-1781
Lesson 3: Ending the War, 1783
“An Expression of the American Mind”: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Choosing Sides: The Native Americans' Role in the American Revolution
Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Lesson 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance
Lesson 2: Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Lesson 1: The Road to the Constitutional Convention
Lesson 2: The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
Lesson 3: Creating the Office of the Presidency
Creating the Office of the Presidency
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
FDR and the Lend-Lease Act
FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
FDR: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor
The First Great Awakening
A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America
Lesson 1: An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis
Lesson 2: Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
Lesson 3: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery
Lesson 4: Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
Images of the New World
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England
On the Eve of War: North vs. South
The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
Lesson 2: The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
Lesson 3: The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
“Police Action”: The Korean War, 1950-1953
“The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”: The United States in World War II
Lesson 1: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
Lesson 2: Turning the Tide in Europe, 1942-1944
Lesson 3: Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
Lesson 4: Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Religion in 18th Century America
Lesson 1: The First Great Awakening
Lesson 2: Religion and the Argument for American Independence
Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
The Road to Pearl Harbor: The United States and East Asia, 1915-1941
Lesson 1: The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
Lesson 2: America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
Lesson 3: Japan's “Southern Advance” and the March toward War, 1940-1941
Lesson 4: The Failure of Diplomacy, September - December 1941
The Road to the Constitutional Convention
The Social Security Act
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword”
Lesson 1: On the Eve of War: North vs. South
Lesson 2: The Battles of the Civil War
Lesson 3: Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
“The Missiles of October”: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The United States and Europe: From Neutrality to War, 1921-1941
Lesson 1: Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
Lesson 2: Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
Lesson 3: U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939-1940
Lesson 4: The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom
Witch Hunt or Red Menace? Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954
Lesson 1: Soviet Espionage in America
Lesson 2: The House Un-American Activities Committee
Lesson 3: The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy
Lesson 1: The Origins of “Wilsonianism”
Lesson 2: “To Elect Good Men”: Woodrow Wilson and Latin America
Lesson 3: Wilson and American Entry into World War I
Lesson 4: Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points


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