In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

History buff Matt Flynt was browsing Craig’s List when he found a potential American treasure: two signs that once hung above the doors of a local Woolworth’s. Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins ...

In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in cooperative ...