The following lesson plans are best suited to students in Grades 6-8:

• African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
• The American Dream
• American Indian Reservation Controversies
• The American West: Images of Its People
• Around the World in 1896
• The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
• Child Labor in America
• Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
• Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
• Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
• The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
• Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local
• The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
• Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
• The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis
  
• Explorations in American Environmental History
• Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals
• Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
• French Canadian Immigrants in New England
• Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life
• German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
• The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
• The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People
• How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market
• The Huexotzinco Codex
• Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
• Immigration and Oral History
• The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
• Immigration History Firsthand
• Immigration: Our Changing Voices
• Indian Boarding Schools
• Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself
• Journeys West

• Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand
• Local History: Mapping My Spot
• Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage
• Mark Twain's Hannibal
• Migration during the Great Depression: Living History
• The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look
• Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
• Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury
• The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community
• Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph
• Oral History and Social History
• Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History
• Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders
• Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved
• Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
• Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts
• Recreation Yesterday and Today
• Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
• Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
• Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
• Suffragists and Their Tactics
• Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America
• Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library
• The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking
• To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
• Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done
• The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
• Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507
• Westward Expansion: Links to the Past
• Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
  
• Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
• World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?