Slave Life at Mount Vernon
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the people who lived and worked there? Educators explore the slave quarters and question what they find.
Integrating Language Arts and History
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical fiction, art, and primary source excerpts on George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware.
Jennifer Orr on Experiencing History: A Visit to the Parson Weems House
First-grade teacher Jennifer Orr asks her own history questions when she visits a historic house.
Open Yale Courses
Looking for a little professional development? Miss your college classes? Try Yale’s.
George Washington, A National Treasure
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students analyze artistic works.
From War to Revolution
Can you answer these questions on figures who took part in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution?
Turkey Tracking
Thanksgiving—how much do you know about the history of this popular holiday?
All Wrapped Up in the Flag
Flinging the first American flag to the breeze.
Rediscovering George Washington
Take in the latest scholarship on the life of the first U.S. president.
Seeing (and Engaging in) Historical Thinking: A Tutorial
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.
Premonition of Death
Accounts of Abraham Lincoln’s dream of a presidential assassination vary, and so do the interpretations.
Picturing America
Presents 27 iconic works of art as examples for the use of art and primary sources in history classrooms.
History and Art: George Washington Goes Back to School
Celebrate President’s Day with a framed, replica of Rembrandt Peale’s Porthole Portrait of George Washington and accompanying lesson plans free from the Mount Vernon historic site.