Provides teaching activities organized around the National Standards for History.

Lists

Provides annotated links to both the movie and historical slave ship Amistad.

Provides a wide range of original documents called the "American Memory." Includes searches by keywords, media types, or topics.

Materials

Papers

Provides a short summary of sections of "Colored Patriots of the Revolution" by Nell. Recounts events by a biography of the mid-1800's.

"Valerie Cunningham traces African American history from 1645 through the first harsh century of slavery."

"Limited freedom came slowly. Valerie Cunningham discusses emancipation, the 'Negro Court,' and the lives of Portsmouth's expanding black population."

Provides readings from readings, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, The Federalist, and writers of the period, such as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Includes a picture of Wollstonecraft.

Provides four resources.

Provides information about the Supreme Court Case of United States v. The Amistad. Also provides information about the Supreme Court Justices, the homeland of the men on trial, and other historical facts and context.

Provides the full text of the Supreme Court decision regarding the group of men who were captured and made slaves aboard The Amistad.

Provides a chapter by chapter account of the historical events regarding the Amistad and slave trade in early America. The controversy involving a group of slaves went to the Supreme Court and helped move the nation away from slavery.

Provides a graphic of the actual document. Also includes a Web version.

Provides a history of the relationship between "New Spain," the place we currently call "Mexico," and Spain. Discusses the drive for independence, provides links, related lesson plans and more.

Provides the words from the Constitution of the United States. This is not a graphic of the actual document.

Provides a graphic of the actual document. Also includes a Web version.

Uses treasures, key historical documents in the Library of Congress, to weave a story on the history of the Declaration of Independence.

Provides the words from the Declaration of Independence. This is not a graphic of the actual document.

Provides a graphic of the actual document. Also includes a Web version.

Provides a draft, a copy of the signed document, and the Head and Heart letter.

Covers June 7, 1776 - August 2, 1776.

Provides biographies of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Provides a biography, a family tree, resources, contributions by field and more.

Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period.

Provides stories and artifacts surrounding the Valley Forge campaign of the American Revolution.

Provides a biography of George Washington, including pictures.

"George Washington's life mask was made in 1785 by French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon when Washington was fifty-three. In commenting to a friend, Houdon said he had no idea of 'the majesty and grandeur of Washington's form and features' until he studied him as a subject."

Periodicals

Projects

Provides 15 days of lessons and activities. This is a thematic unit.