This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

Historian and Yale University professor Beverly Gage joined David M. Rubenstein to discuss her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov ...

During the so-called Gilded Age that followed the Civil War, U.S. cities grew rapidly as business owners built their factories in cities with good transportation systems. By the end of the 19th ...

To help students make understand the relationship between narrative description of specific episodes and general claims about recurrent political processes, in both their thinking and their writing In ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

Students will gain skills necessary for researching by locating credible and original sources, determining if the sources are primary or secondary, ascertaining the qualifications and reputation of ...

History majors are required to complete History 485: Junior-Senior Seminar. Normally one section of this course is offered each semester, with the specific topic varying, depending on the instructor.

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

I wanted a history class that focused more on my history. History is viewed as important because it’s necessary to know where you came from, and this African American history class is teaching me more ...

In New York’s Saratoga National Historical Park resides the Boot Monument. Inscribed on this monument are the words, “In memory of the most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army.” Yet nowhere on ...