This lesson plan looks at the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, features historical documents about woman suffrage, and a script that the National Archives commissioned about the decades long struggle for a woman's right to vote. The site includes teaching activities and a list of related websites.

This lesson looks at how womenŐs role in the campaign against alcohol consumption in antebellum America reflected the strengths and limitations of the cult of domesticity in the Nineteenth Century United States. America in Class Lessons are tailored to meet the Common Core State Standards. The Lessons present challenging primary resources in a classroom-ready format, with background information and analytical strategies that enable teachers and students to subject texts and images to the close reading called for in the Standards.

This online exhibition celebrates the centennial of flight with a thorough presentation of Wilbur and Orville Wright's biography, their technical achievements and the cultural impact of their breakthrough in the decade after 1903.

Students keep journals in which they respond in writing to Dorothea Lange's photographs.

This site invites students to examine clues and determine what life was like for a family that lived in New Castle, Delaware, during the 1700s. Students also discover what historians in the next century might learn about us if they found our homes the way they are today.