US History

Make every lesson an engaging lesson. In this clinic you will learn a dozen motivating and practical teaching strategies that will foster active engagement and enhanced thinking in your students.

Examine a dark chapter in American history through first-person stories, historic photographs, and government documents with Tom Ikeda, Densho’s founding Executive Director who has conducted over 200 oral histories with Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.   --> read more »

The United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change website, www.usmint.gov/kids, offers FREE K-12 cross-curricular educational materials, and introduces students to the history of the coins they carry. H.I.P. Pocket Change, it's "History In your Pocket."

The author will discuss reasons and research for writing Thomas Jefferson: Inquiry History for Daring Delvers. The volume follows presentations made relating to the historical fiction The Others at Monticello.

Tired of using that textbook for yet another Section 1 Review? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone? Move forward and learn to build a textless curriculum with a collaborative platform for teachers.

This participatory workshop explores the U.S. war with Mexico, which resulted in Mexico losing almost half its territory. It also was the birth of the first U.S. anti-war movement.

Study the Trust’s Civil War Curriculum. This free resource provides 9 standards-based goals covering the war from disunion to reconstruction; complete with lessons, materials, and assessment. Then work with colleagues to create your own.

Study the Trust’s Civil War Curriculum. This free resource provides 9 standards-based goals covering the war from disunion to reconstruction; complete with lessons, materials, and assessment. Then work with colleagues to create your own.

Join this session and be inspired to integrate social studies and the language arts of reading, writing, listening and speaking through a wide range of strategies and resources that will make 5th grade U.S. History come alive for your students.

This new documentary tells the story of the 41st Infantry Division during World War II. Veterans recount their experiences, from guarding the Oregon and Washington coastline, through battles in the Pacific, to occupation duty in the Hiroshima district of Japan.