This teacher’s guide provides an overview of the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition and its connections to major historical themes of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, including urbanization and architecture, technology and leisure, colonialism/imperialism and Indigenous resistance, racial segregation and Black activism, and women’s rights and representation.
This guide includes resources for investigating the history and legacy of the textile industry with a focus on Beaumont Mill in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The guide is organized around important steps of conducting community history and highlights sources specific to Beaumont Mill as well as general resources that can support the investigation of any community.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has invited National History Day (NHD) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to work together to promote better understanding among young people of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish history. This guide introduces resources from the USHMM and potential topics for NHD research projects.
Women actively participated in shaping the nascent film industry of the early twentieth century, both as screen stars and behind the camera. But why is this history missing from our understanding of early Hollywood? A comprehensive catalog from the American Film Institute and their "Women They Talk About" project offers an opportunity to discover these forgotten stories and the powerful women who shaped the industry. This guide features an introduction to the rich database from AFI, classroom activities highlighting the work of filmmaking pioneer Lois Weber, and strategies for incorporating film study — including silent films — into your curriculum.
This Teacher’s Guide uses the Colored Conventions Movement as a historical case study for teaching the history of Reconstruction and Black freedom struggles through place-based approaches.
This guide presents a variety of artworks, from the 17th century to the present, that highlight the presence and experiences of Black communities across the Atlantic world. Use the collections in the virtual gallery below to engage your students in conversation about the many narratives of everyday life, enslavement, and resistance that have been told through art. Lesson plans are provided to extend these conversations and help students consider the many and continuing legacies of the transatlantic slave trade.
This Teacher's Guide discusses the development of the environmental humanities field and explains how environmental studies intersects with history, literature, art, and civics.
This Teacher's Guide includes place-based history resources and activity ideas to help students recognize the value of studying historic and cultural sites across the United States.
This Teacher’s Guide offers a collection of lessons and resources for K-12 social studies, literature, and arts classrooms that center around the experiences, achievements, and perspectives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across U.S. history.
Archival visits, whether in person or online, are great additions to any curriculum in the humanities. Primary sources can be the cornerstone of lessons or activities involving any aspect of history, ancient or modern. This Teachers Guide is designed to help educators plan, execute, and follow up on an encounter with sources housed in a variety of institutions, from libraries and museums to historical societies and state archives to make learning come to life and teach students the value of preservation and conservation in the humanities.
