Investigating U.S. History

Lesson Modules
Lesson Modules
Instructor Resources
Technical Notes
About the Program

Lesson Modules

World Together, Worlds Apart: The Slave Society of Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Instructor's Annotations

The Stamp Act Protests

Goals and Questions

Background Reading

Historical Accounts

Drafting, Debating and Ratifying the Constitution

Additional Resources

Instructor's Annotations

I. Debates: Massachusetts

II. Debates: Virginia

III. Debates: New York

Evangelicalism in Antebellum America

Instructor's Annotations

John Brown's 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid

Instructor's Annotations

L. Child Correspondence

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The Meaning of Emancipation in the Reconstruction Era

Supplemental Sources

Alternative Assignments

Instructor's Annotations

To Conquer or Redeem? The Spanish-Cuban-American War

Instructor's Annotations

From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life

Four Part Exercise

Further Resources

Group One Documents

Group Two Documents

Group Three Documents

The Triangle Fire: From Industrialism to Progressivism

Instructor's Annotations

The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression

Instructor's Annotations

The Written Record

The Oral Record

The Photographic Record

The Artistic Record

The Musical Record

The Black Freedom Movement

Instructor's Annotations

Lyndon Johnson and 1960s Political Culture

Track 1: Civil Rights

Track 2: Vietnam

Track 3: 1964 Campaign

Track 4: The Cold War and the 1960s

From Abolition to Progressivism: Women in Public Life

Group Three Documents

Declaration of Sentiments
Frances Harper “A Heritage of Scorn”
Florence Kelley, “Strength in Numbers”
Carrie Chapman Catt "Class Versus Gender"

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