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 ...

In the decades following the Civil War, often referred to as the Gilded Age, U.S. cities grew rapidly as business owners built their factories in cities with good transportation systems, particularly ...

WESTFIELD — Westfield High School history teacher Mark Dargie has been taking advantage of working with the Children’s Corner Laboratory Preschool and the Fort Meadow Early Childhood Center to expand ...

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 ...

To celebrate Women's History Month this March, and International Women's Day on 8 March, we've put together a collection of primary and secondary classroom reosurces ...

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 ...

Darrell Cobbins wants learning history to hit home. Doing so, Cobbins said, will help students better learn about tough topics, like Tennessee's role in the slave trade or the significant, sometimes ...

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 ...