The following lesson plans are best suited to students in Grades 9-12:

• 1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry
• After Reconstruction
• African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
• The Alaska Purchase: Debating the Sale from Russian and U.S. Perspectives
• America at the Centennial
• The American Dream
• American Indian Reservation Controversies
• American Lives in Two Centuries: What is an American?
• Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
• Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
• The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
• Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw
• Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades
• Child Labor and the Building of America
• Child Labor in America
• Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
  
• Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
• The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy
• The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?
• The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union
• Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local
• The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal?
• The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
• Explorations in American Environmental History
• Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions
• Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals
• Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
• George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
• The Great Depression and the 1990's
• The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
• The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression

• The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties
• Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
• Immigration and Oral History
• Immigration: Our Changing Voices
• Indian Boarding Schools
• Journeys West
• Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand
• Mark Twain's Hannibal
• Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
• Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury
• New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
• The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community
• Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph
• Oral History and Social History
• Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders
• Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
• Recreation Yesterday and Today
• A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers
• Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
• Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
• Suffragists and Their Tactics
• Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America
• Thomas Jefferson's Library: 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
• 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?