Resources

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove of educational resources. Teachers, students, and parents searching for free, high-quality material on the Internet will find multimedia lesson plans, student interactives, and peer-reviewed websites in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, history and social studies.

EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the Thinkfinity Consortium of premier educational websites. It is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.

The EDSITEment experience includes:

• I. User-friendly website that offers easy homepage access to the latest offerings from EDSITEment and our Thinkfinity partners
• II. NEH Connections: a robust feature that links to NEH-funded projects of particular relevance to educators
• III. User-defined, customizable lesson-plan searches
• IV. Direct access to student resources and interactives from every page
• V. “This Day in History” calendar featuring humanities classroom activities

EDSITEment was selected as one of the top 25 websites for 2010 by the America Association of School Librarians and has been accepted into the Smithsonian Institution’s Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology, the world’s premier historical record of computing applications and innovations. Please visit EDSITEment to begin exploring its rich resources.

Lessons

Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
Launchpad: Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The Emancipation Proclamation: “Freedom’s First Steps”
EDSITEment’s lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
Slavery’s Opponents and Defenders
Families in Bondage

Constitution Day

Article II: Presidents and the Constitution
EDSITEment’s “Constitution Day”
Center for the Study of the American Constitution
All Other Persons: Slavery and the Constitution

The Civil War and Emancipation

Visualizing Emancipation
Civil War and Emancipation
Civil War Washington
Primary Documents in American History: The Emancipation Proclamation
Ken Burns’ “The Civil War”
Ken Burns’ The Civil War Episode 3: “Forever Free”
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
U.S. State and Territorial Encyclopedias
Africans in America: Judgment Day

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln and Forging of Modern America
President Lincoln’s Cottage
For a Vast Future Also: “Lincoln and the Millennium”
Forever Free: Abraham Lincolns Road to Emancipation

Interactive Games

Abraham Lincoln at the Crossroads
Mission US: Flight to Freedom