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Grade Range:
9-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Interactives & Media
Duration:
62 minutes
Date Posted:
9/16/2014
This archived webcast features filmmaker Ken Burns discussing this documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The webcast included historian Clay Jenkinson, Smithsonian curator Harry Rubenstein, and Roosevelt biographer Geoffrey Ward. The conversation covered varied topic

Grade Range:
10-12
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities
Duration:
380 minutes
Date Posted:
12/17/2012
Studying the presidency offers students a new way to explore the democratic political process and to expand their understanding of how this process has shaped the nation's history and continues to influence their own lives. What does it mean to be the president of the United States of America? Wh

Grade Range:
7-9
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities
Duration:
380 minutes
Date Posted:
12/17/2012
Studying the American presidency offers students an unparalleled opportunity to explore the democratic political process and to deepen their understanding of how this process fits into the whole of American history. While learning about subjects as diverse as campaigns, the media, and presidentia

Grade Range:
4-6
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
380 minutes
Date Posted:
11/26/2012
Studying the presidency offers students a new way to explore American history. What does it mean to be the president of the United States of America? What is the relationship of the presidency to the American people? Using artifacts and documents, students can begin to uncover this uniquely Ameri

Grade Range:
9-12
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Date Posted:
8/31/2012
Discuss the story of the Dust Bowl through images from photographer Arthur Rothstein, through song with Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads, and through text writings from President Roosevelt and farmer Caroline Henderson. Then, challenge students to consider modern environmental issues with

Grade Range:
4-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
5/11/2012
This online exhibition features approximately 100 objects from the Museum's collections to tell stories from the earliest days of America's colonial history through the 2008 presidential election. Each object is used as the starting point for a larger story about American history. The exhibition

Grade Range:
4-12
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
9 minutes
Date Posted:
3/1/2012
Use short videos, mini-activities, and practice questions to explore American history from the 1900s in this segment of Preparing for the Oath: U.S. History and Civics for Citizenship. The nine questions included in this segment cover topics such as World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and Se

Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts, Primary Sources
Date Posted:
9/17/2010
"I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." So began on March 12, 1933, the first of about thirty informal "Fireside Chat" addresses that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would deliver over the radio. His ability to communicate over this new medium direct

Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites
Date Posted:
10/17/2009
This resource, designed by Learning Technology Center in the University of Texas at Austin College of Education, features an interactive timeline that tells the stories of the American presidents of the twentieth century, from Herbert Hoover to William Jefferson Clinton. Each presidents biographi

Grade Range:
2-12
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites
Date Posted:
8/6/2009
This website, from the New York Times, allows students to read the texts of every American president’s inauguration speech. The site creators clarify each address by highlighting words that appear the most often in each president’s speech. The site also includes related multimedia