EDSITEment

11/10/2023

What does the say about sovereignty? Learn about this complex and enduring issue in our teacher's guide.

September 17th is Constitution Day, commemorating the day in 1787 when, at the end of a long hot summer of discussion, debate and deliberation, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed America’s most important document.

11/08/2023

What did the American Revolution mean for Americans? Learn how different groups responded to events during & after the war in this lesson plan.

Native American groups had to choose the loyalist or patriot cause—or somehow maintain a neutral stance during the Revolutionary War. Students will analyze maps, treaties, congressional records, first-hand accounts, and correspondence to determine the different roles assumed by Native Americans in...

11/06/2023

How can understanding language help us understand other cultures?

This curriculum about Hopi heritage explores as an important part of cultural identity.

A curriculum unit of three lessons in which students explore Hopi place names, poetry, song, and traditional dance to better understand the ways Hopi people connect with the land and environment through language. The unit is centered on the practice of growing corn. Students make inferences about la...

11/03/2023

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11/01/2023

It’s ! We’ll be sharing resources all month to commemorate and celebrate peoples and cultures.



Get started with our teacher’s guide here:

This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

10/30/2023

The tale of the Headless Horseman is now a classic but few Americans celebrated that holiday when the story was new. Use this lesson to ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween: What happened to Ichabod Crane?

Students explore the artistry that helped make Washington Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween--What happened to Ichabod Crane?

10/25/2023

To what extent did forge ?

This Teacher’s Guide provides questions to frame a unit, along with activities that use newspapers and resources for history, literature, and music education.

This Teacher’s Guide provides compelling questions to frame a unit of study and inquiry projects on the Reconstruction Era, includes NEH sponsored multimedia resources, activity ideas that include use of newspapers from the time and interdisciplinary approaches to bring social studies, ELA, and mu...

10/20/2023

Why do you think ’s story is not well known?

This resource recognizes the consequences of the absence of sites associated with and underscores the challenges of conducting historical research on enslaved people.

Long Road to Freedom is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that documents the transformative journey of Biddy Mason from enslavement in Georgia to becoming a landowner and community organizer in Los Angeles.

10/18/2023

Consider the multiple perspectives of the through the popular literature of the time by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more!

Read and discuss some of the great American writers and their work in the mid-19th century. This feature explores the themes of slavery, the role of women, and the experience of war.

10/16/2023

Only two weeks until ! Will you be ready to commemorate and celebrate peoples and cultures? Get started with our teacher’s guide here:

This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

10/11/2023

in 1884, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born.

She was a key figure in several of the most important movements of the 20th c.: the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the struggle for racial justice, and the U.N.

This lesson asks students to explore the various roles that Eleanor Roosevelt a key figure in several of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century took on, among them: First Lady, political activist for civil rights, newspaper columnist and author, and representative to the...

10/09/2023

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This Teacher's Guide includes the cultures and histories of Indigenous communities in the U.S. with resources designed for integration across curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.

09/29/2023

Who were the Aztecs and what is their connection to modern day Mexico? This lesson plan introduces students to this Indigenous civilization.

This lesson introduces students to the Aztec Empire and people and to the legend of their founding of Tenochtitlan, the city that later became the capital of Mexico.

09/27/2023

What was life like in a Spanish mission? This lesson plan looks at the daily lives of people who lived near Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción.

In this "Picturing America" lesson, students explore the historical origins and organization of the Spanish missions in the New World and discover the varied purposes these communities of faith served.

09/25/2023

Looking for sources this ? Chronicling America's collection of Spanish-language newspapers has digitized papers dating back to 1836!

Blog New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish-Language Newspapers in Chronicling America May 14, 2015 By Leah Weinryb Grohsgal Photo caption Advertisement for the White House, Mens and Ladies Fashions. El Fronterizo. (Tucson, Arizona), May 5, 1882. Courtesy of Chronicling America: Histo...

09/22/2023

may have passed, but the power of that document is its call to all of us to continue working toward .

We’ve got resources to help you do just that:

This Teacher's Guide compiles EDSITEment resources that support the NEH's "A More Perfect Union" initiative, which celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Topics include literature, history, civics, art, and culture.

09/20/2023

How are families in Spanish-speaking countries alike and different?

Learn about families in various Spanish cultures and gain some knowledge of the Spanish language by learning the Spanish names for various family members.

Three simple and age appropriate activities on Spanish language and culture which focus on the family and the Spanish names for various family members.