This lesson explores the history and use of thirteen different historic forts in the Dakota territory. The lesson, which features author Jeff Barnes speaking at Deadw ...

In this lesson, students will consider what they know about the 1960s, one of the most significant eras in recent history, and will assess how they learned what they know. Once students have ...

In this lesson students are introduced to Frederick Jackson Turner and how early Census data, when combined visually with maps, effectively demonstrated the end of the frontier. By reading Turner’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the complex challenge of telling America’s story. They ...

It's a classroom lesson Angus Andersen doesn't teach every day — and certainly not to 100 classrooms across Canada at the same time. But that's exactly what he's doing as part of a bigger education ...

The prevailing styles of 1940s fashion? Well, that depends. Stylistically, the decade began with one look (fueled by wartime make-do-and-mend attitudes) and ended with an entirely other New Look (a ...