Discover how in 1846, tensions simmered into the Mexican-American war, after which Mexico lost half of its territory and the U.S. gained one-third of theirs.
Michael Strahan, NFL Hall-of-Famer and television personality, can track his descendants’ migration from the upper South to Texas as the result of the Second Middle Passage – a turning point in the history of the domestic slave trade in the United States.
Several times per year, seawater floods some of the streets in Charleston, South Carolina. Taking steps to deal with this "nuisance" flooding can help the city prepare for sea level rise.
As Public Works Director of Nogales, Arizona, Alejandro Barcenas works to ensure a safe and secure water supply for the city’s 20,500 residents. His task isn’t easy: the city is located in an arid region just north of the United States–Mexico border, and its entire supply comes from groundwater.
Half of Nogales’ water comes from alluvial aquifers that are highly responsive to rainfall events. Though this convenient source of water recharges easily, it is also vulnerable to climate-related changes such as reduced precipitation and increased evaporation. The other half of the city’s groundwater comes from a lower-quality source—this water is more expensive to produce. To optimize the use of the two sources of groundwater into the future, Barcenas is contributing to the development of a modeling tool that simulates how the aquifers may change in response to climate.
This one-minute video segment from IdahoPTV's Moments in Time presents the journal entries of Lewis and Clark from June 13, 1805, "The great falls of the Missouri".
This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."
Climate change adaptation isnt always welcome as a topic of conversation, even among those who could benefit from it. A recent study hints at a possible path forward.
This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross recaps the Nat Turner Rebellion, and how it affected Southern slaveholders.
In this interactive experience, students can explore the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, the only museum solely dedicated to the American POW experience. The museum is one of three features at the Andersonville National Historic Site, along with the Andersonville National Cemetery and the former Andersonville Prison.
Take a look at Indigenous art, history, and culture as told through the historians, artists, students, and scientists in this featured resource collection.
Examine how the United States acquisition of Florida in 1821 impacted the Native American population in this video from Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special. Utilizing discussion questions, vocabulary, teaching tips, and primary source documents, students learn how the United States set out to dismantle the Native American population of Florida and how the tribes in this region found ways to survive.
Reduced flows and increased demand for Colorado River water represent a real and present danger in the West. To address the threat, water managers and modelers initiated a study to understand the system, consider options, and take action.
In 1889, Las Gorras Blancas (The White Caps) emerged in the New Mexico Territory and American Southwest to protect land rights. Three brothers, Pablo, Nicanor, and Juan Jose Herrera, organized this resistance movement to protect half a million acres of land from encroachment by cattle ranchers.
Learn how enslaved African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, established what a historian in this clip calls “quasi-free communities, where they etched out lives for themselves, that paved the way forward.”
As he formed his own political voice and ideologies, Frederick Douglass broke away from his abolitionist mentor, William Lloyd Garrison, to start the newspaper "The North Star" and give Black abolitionists a voice. This caused a rift in their relationship, as Douglass started to emerge as a political leader in his own right. He used words as battle axes, which can be seen fully in one of his most famous speeches, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?".
Explore the origins of the Orphan Train movement that took place at a time when there were no systems in place to help the poor and homeless in this video adapted from the documentary West by Orphan Train produced by Colleen Bradford Krantz and Clark Kidder. Educational resources created and published by Iowa PBS. Charles Loring Brace decided early in his life that he wanted to work with the homeless children of New York. He witnessed firsthand the poverty impacting children in New York and knew he had to take action. In 1853 he founded the Children’s Aid Society and the first Orphan Train left New York in 1854 with a goal of placing children in homes.
Summaries of all SCOTUS courts cases, that will show the background facts, constitutional issue, the holding by idealogy/seniority and will also have links to the original documents or audio of the oral arguments
This past fall|the results from the “Nation’s Report Card,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress|painted a bleak picture of pandemic learning loss. And just before that news broke|survey data revealed that the downward trend in district enrollment has continued even since schools reopened their doors. With all this and more on their plates|it’s no wonder that many districts aren’t focusing on reinventing schools but instead are just seeking to get back to some semblance of normalcy. Efforts like personalizing learning for each student might feel superfluous or even like a distraction and headache. But the opposite is true. It’s never been more urgent for districts to begin personalizing learning for each child — to deliver every student the right learning at the right time to accelerate their progress.
Find innovative ways to integrate works of art into your teaching with this collection of resources based on video from Picturing America on Screen. The artworks are those included in the Picturing America project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, launched in 2008 to introduce Americans to their artistic heritage and to the possibilities inherent in using art as a link to teaching and understanding America’s past.
Pirates! The very word brings shivers to those who sail the seas. Popular movies romanticize their deeds, but to Georgia colonists in the mid-18th century, their exploits were to be feared rather than admired. Georgia’s coast and coastal islands were havens where pirates could hide. Blackbeard Island off the Georgia coast from McIntosh County is named for none other than Edward Teach, the fearsome pirate who sailed the along the coast. David Gurnsey of the Ships of The Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah answers many questions about pirates.