• Bell Ringer: Pueblo Tribes and the Wupatki National Monument (7:30)

• Lesson Plan: Early Explorers and Expeditions (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Doctrine of Discovery (1:24)

• Bell Ringer: Chumash Indians in Southern California (6:09)

• Bell Ringer: Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (5:51)

• Bell Ringer: Spanish Explorer and Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: Spanish Settlement of St. Augustine in 1565 (6:45)

• Bell Ringer: The Spanish Empire in Western Florida (5:40)

• Lesson Plan: The Spanish Empire and Missions in North America (5 Clips)

• Video Clip: San Antonio Spanish Missions (10:37)

• Bell Ringer: Iroquois Nation (7:49)

• Lesson Plan: The Thanksgiving Story - "This Land Is Their Land" (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Mayflower Compact (3:18)

• Bell Ringer: Religion and the Mayflower Compact (1:48)

• Bell Ringer: The Mayflower Compact and America's Founding (2:24)

• Video Clip: Who Were the Pilgrims? (3:00)

• Video Clip: New Beginnings for the Pilgrims (4:11)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board Activities: The Pilgrim Story (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The History of Joint-Stock Companies (3:42)

• Bell Ringer: The Thirteen Original Colonies (4:08)

• Bell Ringer: Religion in Colonial America (5:14)

• Lesson Plan: The Lives of Slaves in Colonial America (1 Clip)

• Bell Ringer: Massachusetts Colony's Body of Liberties and Due Process Rights (6:18)

• Bell Ringer: Jamestown (6:32)

• Bell Ringer: Pocahontas (5:36)

• Bell Ringer: The First Africans Brought to Virginia (7:29)

• Bell Ringer: Triangular Trade in New England (2:12)

• Bell Ringer: The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage (6:27)

• Bell Ringer: Early Treaties with Native Americans (4:06)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Stickball (1:40)

• Bell Ringer: Pocahontas, Algonquian Indians, and Jamestown (7:58)

• Bell Ringer: Individual Rights and the Early American Colonies (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: The Religious Beliefs of Puritans in New England (5:08)

• Bell Ringer: Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island (2:48)

• Bell Ringer: Bacon's Rebellion (6:18)

• Bell Ringer: William Penn and the Quakers (3:23)

• On This Day: Salem Witch Trials (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Settler Colonialism (8:25)

• Bell Ringer: Explorer Robert de La Salle (9:59)

• Lesson Plan: Predecessors to the Bill of Rights (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Colony (6:24)

• Bell Ringer: Zenger Trial and Colonial Press Freedom (2:32) 

• Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade (9:19)

• Bell Ringer: The First Great Awakening (4:56)

• Lesson: Slavery in the Northern Colonies (12 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: French Colonies in North America and Indian Alliances (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and the Albany Plan of Union (2:30)

• Video Clip: Colonization and the Causes of the French and Indian War (5:55)

• Video Clip: Native Americans and the French and Indian War (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: The Days Before the French and Indian War (9:36)

• Video Clip: Military Tactics During the French and Indian War (2:16)

• Bell Ringer: French and Indian War (4:45)

• Video Clip: British Perspectives of The French and Indian War (4:38)

• On This Day: The End of the French and Indian War (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Impact of the French and Indian War (8 Clips) 

• Bell Ringer: Treaty of Paris 1763 - Taxing the Colonies (3:28)

• Bell Ringer: The Enlightenment and the Truth (3:55) 

• Bell Ringer: Patrick Henry’s Speech (8:50)

• Lesson Plan: The Second Virginia Convention (1775) (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Pre-Revolutionary America (3:03)

• Bell Ringer: Phillis Wheatley (2:55)

• Bell Ringer: Enlightenment and Classical Ideas in 18th Century America  (4:58)

• Lesson Plan: Boston Massacre (1 Clip)

• Bell Ringer: The Stamp Act (1:41)

• Lesson Plan: Founding Father John Hancock (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Boston Tea Party Debate (11:53)

• Bell Ringer: The Quebec Act (1:52)

• Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the American Revolution (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: America's First Diplomat (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: Revolutionary War (Clips and Activities)

• Bell Ringer: First Continental Congress (5:56)

• Lesson Plan: The Battles of Lexington and Concord (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Beginning of the Revolutionary War (13:02)

• Bell Ringer: The Importance of Thomas Paine (2:54) 

• Video Clip: The Purpose of the Declaration of Independence (2:15)

• Lesson Plan: The Influence of the Declaration of Independence on the Constitution (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Battle of Trenton (13:30)

• Bell Ringer: Washington Crossing the Delaware (8:52)

• Bell Ringer: Marquis de Lafayette and the American Revolution (3:18)

• Lesson Plan: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the American Revolution (12 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Slavery in the American Revolution (7:57)

• Bell Ringer: Sustaining the Continental Army During the American Revolution (5:24)

• Lesson Plan: America, France, and The Marquis de Lafayette (10 clips) 

• Bell Ringer: The Importance of the Battles of Saratoga (2:17)

• Bell Ringer: Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution (4:23)

• Bell Ringer: Battle at Guilford Courthouse (10:26)

• On This Day: The British Surrender at Yorktown (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Legacy of the American Revolution (2:24)

• Lesson Plan: The Revolutionary War (9 Clips) 

• Lesson: New York City Revolutionary War Relics (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: Our Founding Documents (Clips and Activities)

• Lesson Plan: 1783 Treaty of Paris (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Impact of the 1783 Treaty of Paris in the U.S. (3:58)

• Lesson Plan: The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin (10 Clips and Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Relationship between Patriots and Loyalists Following the Revolution (7:21) 

• Bell Ringer: Christmas in America through the Revolutionary War (3:45) 

• On This Day: Continental Congress Adopts the Articles of Confederation (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:12)

• Video Clip: The Articles of Confederation and Shay's Rebellion (5:05)

• Lesson Plan: The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (8 Clips) 

• Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Convention (4:57)

• Bell Ringer: Drafting the Preamble of the Constitution (1:30)

• Bell Ringer: We the People (2:14)

• Bell Ringer: NJ and VA Plans and the Constitutional Convention (4:21)

• Bell Ringer: Judicial Appointment Process (5:23)

• Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention (3:20)

• Bell Ringer: The Slave Trade Compromise (3:08)

• Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Convention and the Power of Impeachment (1:20)

• Video Clip: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention (8:33)

• Bell Ringer: Dissenters at the Constitutional Convention (4:58)

• Choice Board: Debate- George Mason v. James Madison (Multiple Options) 

• Lesson Plan: The Federalist Papers (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Bill of Rights (7:01)

• Bell Ringer: George Mason and the Bill of Rights (4:16)

• Bell Ringer: The Creation of the Bill of Rights (3:47)

• Lesson Plan: Predecessors to the Bill of Rights (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Origin of the Underground Railroad (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Hamilton's Financial Plan (3:54)

• Lesson: Early American Neutrality (10 Clips)

• Video Clip: Early Tariffs in the United States (4:03)

• Bell Ringer: The Battle of Fallen Timbers (8:15)

• Lesson Plan: Washington’s Farewell Address (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: President George Washington's Farewell Address (6 clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Significance of Chief Justice John Marshall (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Constitutional Beliefs of John Marshall (2:05)

• Bell Ringer: The Haitian Revolution and American Slavery (2:19)

• Bell Ringer: Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin (1:14)

• Bell Ringer: France and the XYZ Affair (3:33)

• Bell Ringer: The Alien and Sedition Acts (3:00)

• Bell Ringer: The Quasi-War (3:38)

• Bell Ringer: The 12th Amendment and the Election of 1800 (3:08)

• Lesson Plan: Marbury v. Madison (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)

• On This Day: Hamilton-Burr Duel (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Impressment and the Chesapeake-Leopard Incident (3:33)

• On This Day: Battle of Tippecanoe (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The War of 1812 (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: War of 1812 (12 Clips & Slides)

• On This Day: The Star-Spangled Banner (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - The Star-Spangled Banner (15 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Fort Meigs and the War of 1812 (8:06)

• Bell Ringer: The War of 1812 and The Treaty of Ghent (6:05)

• Bell Ringer: Battle of New Orleans (9:06)

• Lesson Plan: American Museums in the 18th and 19th Centuries (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: US History 1820 - 1850 (Clips and Activities)

• Bell Ringer: The Seminoles (13:47)

• Bell Ringer: The Missouri Compromise (5:33)

• Bell Ringer: Early Life of Harriet Tubman (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: The Erie Canal (4:48)

• Bell Ringer: The Second Great Awakening (4:17)

• Bell Ringer: The Early Temperance Movement (4:03)

• Lesson Plan: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (4:34)

• Bell Ringer: Judaism and Cincinnati, Ohio (2 Clips)

• On This Day: The Monroe Doctrine  (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Era of Good Feelings (2:51) 

• Bell Ringer: The Corrupt Bargain of 1824 (2:17)

• Bell Ringer: Henry Clay and the American Plan (6:17)

• Bell Ringer: Trade Policy and the American System (4:48)

• Bell Ringer: The Election of Andrew Jackson (5:23)

• Bell Ringer: Nullification Crisis (1:54)

• Bell Ringer: The 1828 Tariff of Abominations and Nullification (3:54)

• Bell Ringer: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Train Travel (5:43) 

• Lesson Plan: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Removal Act of 1830 (6:54)

• Bell Ringer: Escaped Slaves in Detroit and the Fugitive Slave Act (6:26) 

• Bell Ringer: The Nat Turner Rebellion (5:50)

• Bell Ringer: Jacksonians and Whigs (1:39)

• Lesson Plan: Daniel Webster and American Nationalism (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Andrew Jackson and Limited Federal Government? (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Andrew Jackson and the Bank War (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: The Early Abolition Movement and the American Anti-Slavery Society (6:12)

• Bell Ringer: Jacksonians and Whigs (1:39)

• Bell Ringer: The Significance of the Alamo (3:21)

• Bell Ringer: The Origins of Slavery in Texas (3:16)

• Bell Ringer: Texas Independence and the 1836 Compromise (2:05)

• Bell Ringer: The Gag Rule (5:01)

• Bell Ringer: The Panic of 1837 and Martin Van Buren (2:56)

• Bell Ringer: The Panic of 1837 (4:40)

• Bell Ringer: The 1839 Whig Convention (14:17)

• Bell Ringer: "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" and the Election of 1840 (2:11)

• Bell Ringer: Changes to the United States in the 1840s (2:25)

• Bell Ringer: Minstrel Shows in the 1800s (5:45)

• Lesson Plan: The Underground Railroad (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)

• Video Clip: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (4:18)

• Bell Ringer: Brigham Young and the Settlement of Salt Lake City (2:00)

• Bell Ringer: American Colonization Society and Liberia (9:52)

• Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: New Women in the Old West (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The California Gold Rush (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: California Gold Rush and the 49ers (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Arrive in California in 1848 (5:04)

• Bell Ringer: The Decline of the Whig Party (2:35)

• Lesson Plan: New York City Tenement Museum (1 Clip)

• Bell Ringer: Thoreau's Walden Pond (9:02)

• Bell Ringer: Ralph Waldo Emerson (5:46)

• Lesson Plan: Congress and the Antebellum South (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Domestic Slave Trade (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: California Indian Catastrophe (5:24)

• Lesson Plan: Escape from Enslavement - William and Ellen Craft (17 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: The Compromise of 1850 (6:18)

• Bell Ringer: Fugitive Slave Law and Escape from Slavery (7:30)

• Bell Ringer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2:43)

• Bell Ringer: Bleeding Kansas (7:11)

• Bell Ringer: The Formation of the Republican Party (2:42)

• Bell Ringer: The Know-Nothing and Republican Parties (2:25)

• Bell Ringer: Nativism and the Know Nothings (2:04)

• Bell Ringer: The Know Nothing Party (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: The Caning of Charles Sumner (5:40)

• Bell Ringer: Legacy of the Caning of Charles Sumner (5:26)

• Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Dred Scott Decision (4:37) 

• Bell Ringer: The Raid on Harpers Ferry (5:09)

• On This Day: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Slavery (3 clips) 

• Bell Ringer: The Election of 1860 (2:15)

• Lesson Plan: The Clotilda (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Politics and the Election of 1860 (7:44)

• Bell Ringer: Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech (3:15)

• Lesson Plan: Maryland - Union or Confederate? (17 Clips & Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Major Events Leading to the Civil War (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Homestead Act of 1862 (2:07)

• Bell Ringer: Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 (2:01)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War Navies Compared (9:29)

• Lesson: Landmines and the American Civil War (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: Civil War Battles (Clips and Activities)

• Bell Ringer: Pictorial Newspaper Coverage of African Americans During the Civil War (3:45) 

• Lesson Plan: Civil War Era and the Constitution (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Civil War Through American Art and Literature (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: African American Civil War Era Letters (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Civil War Battles (20 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Robert E. Lee and The Issue of Slavery (10:14)

• Bell Ringer: Light-Horse Harry Lee (6:09)

• Bell Ringer: Robert E. Lee Resigns His Commission (5:59)

• Bell Ringer: Robert E. Lee's Early Military Career (7:46)

• Bell Ringer: Confederate President Jefferson Davis (9:44)

• Bell Ringer: Confederate Flags and the American Civil War (15:55)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War: Augusta Canal and Confederate Powder Works (6:21)

• Bell Ringer: Admiral David Farragut and the Civil War (10:22) 

• Bell Ringer: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (2:07)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War Ironclads (7:37)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War Naval Blockades (11:09) 

• Bell Ringer: Battle of Hampton Roads (1:35)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War Guerilla Warfare and The Lieber Code (12:04) 

• On This Day: The Battle at Antietam (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Battle of Fredericksburg (4:20)

• Bell Ringer: Battle of Shiloh (3:58)

• Lesson Plan: Major General Philip Kearny (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Civil War Portrait Photography (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: New York City and the 1863 Draft Riots (12:54)

• On This Day: National Medal of Honor Day (5 Clips)

• Lesson: Escape from Richmond’s Libby Prison (14 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Siege of Vicksburg (3:08)

• Bell Ringer: The Civil War Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg (4:14)

• Bell Ringer: Abraham Lincoln's Writing of the Gettysburg Address (2:47)

• Bell Ringer: The Purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: The 1865 Black Diamond Naval Disaster (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Confederate Starvation Parties (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Development of the Contemporary Santa Claus (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: Christmas and the Civil War (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War Parole Passes (5:27)

• Bell Ringer: Appomattox Court House (13:21)

• Bell Ringer: Surrender, Desertion, and Escape Before the Battle of Appomattox Court House (4:20)

• Bell Ringer: Artifacts from the Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (6:29)

• Bell Ringer: The Terms of Surrender at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse (2 clips)

• Bell Ringer: Travel Home After the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse (3 clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Abraham Lincoln and Rail Travel (9:01)

• Bell Ringer: Robert E. Lee After the Civil War (4:18)

• Lesson Plan: African American Letters to Abraham Lincoln (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Memory of the Civil War (14 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: John Wilkes Booth (3:24)

• Lesson Plan: Lincoln and the Evolution of the American Funeral (14 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Greenbacks and Early Currency in the United States (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Sand Creek Massacre (4:55)

• Bell Ringer: The U.S. Purchase of Alaska (3:50)

• Bell Ringer: History of Juneteenth (4:19)

• Bell Ringer: The Transcontinental Railroad (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (4:32)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Labor Movement in the U.S. (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The First African Americans in Congress (7:36)

• Bell Ringer: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (3:35)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Historic American Business Leaders (10 clips)

• Bell Ringer: Manifest Destiny (4:11)

• Bell Ringer: The Panic of 1873 (3:16)

• Bell Ringer: Battle of Little Bighorn (5:23)

• Lesson Plan: The Legacy of the Battle of Little Bighorn (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Reconstruction Era (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Leaders of the Nez Perce Wars (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Compromise of 1877 (2:16)

• Bell Ringer: History of Cowboys (2:33)

• Bell Ringer: The Homestead Act and the Oklahoma Land Run (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions (2:07)

• • Bell Ringer: Jim Crow Laws (9:04)

  • Bell Ringer: 1879 White River Massacre (Ute War) (10:09)

  • Bell Ringer: Thomas Nast and Tammany Hall (3:09)

  • Lesson Plan: Irish Catholics and Tammany Hall (12 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The Front Porch Campaign of 1880 (2:51)

  • Bell Ringer: Political Parties in the 1880s (4:38)

  • On This Day: Chinese Exclusion Act (5 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The 1884 Presidential Election (4:05)

  • Bell Ringer: Samuel Gompers and Labor Unions (1:14) 

  • Bell Ringer: Andrew Carnegie: Pittsburgh - City of Steel (9:25) 

  • Bell Ringer: The Haymarket Affair (5:09)

  • Bell Ringer: Statue of Liberty National Monument (8:40)

  • Lesson Plan: Jane Addams and John Dewey (4 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (3:31)

  • Bell Ringer: Changes in the Labor Force in the 1890s (3:39)

  • Bell Ringer: The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 (3:34)

  • Bell Ringer: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (2:41)

  • Bell Ringer: Silver Crash of 1893 (6:46)

  • Bell Ringer: George Washington Carver (2:33)

  • Lesson Plan: The Gilded Age (7 Clips)

  • Lesson Plan: Gilded Age Architecture in New York City (6 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (2:14)

  • Bell Ringer: Comparing the Gilded Age to Today (4:43)

  • Bell Ringer: U.S. - Cuba Relationship in 1890 (3:30)

  • Lesson Plan: 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, NY (13 Clips)

  • Lesson Plan: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (8 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: William Jennings Bryan and the Election of 1896 (3:00)

  • Bell Ringer: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine (1:46)

  • Bell Ringer: The Impact of the Civil War on the Spanish-American War (3:21)

  • Lesson Plan: The Spanish-American War (9 Clips) 

  • Bell Ringer: The Rough Riders (4:13)

  • Bell Ringer: Battle of San Juan Hill (6:36)

  • On This Day: The 1898 Treaty of Paris (4 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: Puerto Rico (2:41)

  • Bell Ringer: Wilmington's 1898 Insurrection (16:02)

  • Bell Ringer: Assassination of President McKinley (6:24)

  • Bell Ringer: Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Era (4:35)

  • Lesson Plan: Panama Canal (1 Clip & Slides)

  • Bell Ringer: Muckrakers (2:15)

  • Bell Ringer: Social Reformer and Photojournalist Jacob Riis (2:11)

  • Lesson Plan: Lochner v. New York (5 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (3:50)

  • Bell Ringer: The Creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act (4:30)

  • Video Clip: The Presidency of William Howard Taft (4:03)

  • Bell Ringer: The Leo Frank Affair (10:04) 

  • Bell Ringer: Progressive Era Reforms in the Wilson Administration (2:30)

  • Video Clip: Woodrow Wilson and the Role of the President (3:05)

  • Bell Ringer: Origins of the NAACP (4:02)

  • On This Day: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (7 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The Assembly Line and Fordism (6:34)

  • Lesson Plan: Life During the American Industrial Age (10 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: Socialism in the Early 20th Century (5:18)

  • On This Day: Sinking of the Titanic (9 Clips)

  • Bell Ringer: The Congressional Career of Jeannette Rankin (5:52)

World War I Resources (1914-1918)

• Bell Ringer: Alliances and the Beginning of World War I in Europe (3:31)

• Bell Ringer: National Identity and the Beginnings of World War I (3:44)

• Bell Ringer: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (5:24)

• On This Day: The Sinking of the Lusitania (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Zimmermann Telegram (8:33)

• On This Day: US Enters Into World War I (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Letters from World War I (13 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: World War I (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: World War I (Clips and Activities)

• Lesson Plan: World War I and Religious Peace Groups (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Selective Service Act (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: World War I Propaganda (15:09)

• Bell Ringer: Military Aviation during World War I (3:40)

• Bell Ringer: World War I and Trench Warfare (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: Technology Advances in World War I (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: World War I Artillery (2:31)

• Bell Ringer: General John J. Pershing and War Tanks (3:31)

• Bell Ringer: World War I Combat Artists (11:28)

• Bell Ringer: African Americans in World War I (10:03)

• Bell Ringer: US Women Soldiers During World War I (4:21)

• Video Clip: The Argonne Forest (7:14)

• Bell Ringer: The Lost Battalion of the Argonne Forest (9:54)

• Bell Ringer: American Forces at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel (6:56)

• Lesson Plan: WWI: U.S. Military in France in 1918 (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Woodrow Wilson and World War I (5:15)

• On This Day: Treaty of Versailles (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Schenck v. United States (6 clips)

• Bell Ringer: Fall of Empires (4:45)

• Lesson Plan: World War I Plastic Surgery (22 Clips & Slides)

• Lesson Plan: War Football - World War I and the Birth of the NFL (11 Clips)

1918-1929

• Lesson Plan: American Antisemitism in the Early 1900s (8 clips) 

• Bell Ringer: The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic (5:06)

• Lesson Plan: Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Society after the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (4:38)

• Bell Ringer: 1919 "Red Summer" (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1919 Elaine, Arkansas, Massacre (12:59)

• Bell Ringer: Henry Ford and "The Protocols" (9:28) 

• Video Clip: James Weldon Johnson (1:48)

• Lesson Plan: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Great Migration and Black Representation in Congress (3:58)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Conversations with Suffragists (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Prohibition in the United States (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Warren Harding and the Alaskan Rail Trip (8:15) 

• Lesson Plan: Rethinking President Warren G. Harding (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Teapot Dome Scandal and Congressional Investigations (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Immigration Act of 1924 (4:15) 

• On This Day: Scopes Trial (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Charles Lindbergh and the First Solo Transatlantic Flight (6:50)

• Bell Ringer: The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Outlawing of War (4:32)

• Bell Ringer: The Stimson Doctrine (3:00)

The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941)

• Lesson Plan: Trailblazer Althea Gibson (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the Great Depression (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Baseball During the Great Depression (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: American Communism in the 1930s (4:01)

• Bell Ringer: The Bonus Army (2:50)

• Bell Ringer: The Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt (3:08)

• Bell Ringer: FDR and Hoover - 1932 Transition (6:00)

• Bell Ringer: The Great Depression and the 1933 Inauguration Period (4:03)

• Bell Ringer: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats (5:32)

• Lesson Plan: The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Great Depression (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Economics and the Great Depression (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Auto-Lite Labor Strike of 1934 (5:06)

• Bell Ringer: Life as an Unemployed Person during the Great Depression (5:52)

• Bell Ringer: Dust Bowl Migration (9:25)

• Bell Ringer: Sharecropping and African American Farmers during the 1930s (3:55)

• Lesson Plan: The New Deal (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The New Deal Subsistence Homesteads Program (17 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Camp Mohican and the CCC (14 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Roosevelt and Court-Packing (6:26)

• Video Clip: Overview of the Tennessee Valley Authority (4:30)

• Bell Ringer: The Works Progress Administration (2 Clips) 

• Bell Ringer: The National Labor Relations Act / Wagner Act (1:47)

Lead up to World War II (1931-1941)

• Bell Ringer: The Japanese Invasion of China (6:42)

• On This Day: Germany's Invasion of Poland (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Beginning of WWII in Europe (6:14)

• Bell Ringer: German Plans for the Battle of Britain (3:22)

• Bell Ringer: German Jewish Immigration at the Onset of World War Two (12:29)

• Bell Ringer: Oppenheimer and Beginning the Manhattan Project (4:59)

• Bell Ringer: The Roosevelts During World War II (5:49)

• Bell Ringer: The Truman Committee (3:56)

• Bell Ringer: Shift From Isolationism During WWII (3:49)

• Lesson Plan: World War II (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: World War II Battle of the Atlantic (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Funding World War II Through Taxes and Bonds (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: American Industry and World War II (3:59)

• Bell Ringer: Victory Gardens during World War II (3:20)

• Lesson Plan: Oral Histories of the Holocaust (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Holiday Hope During the Holocaust (5 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Franklin Roosevelt and World War II (5:50)

• On This Day: Attack on Pearl Harbor (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Address to Congress (6:58)

• Bell Ringer: Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Train Car: The Ferdinand Magellan (6:36) 

• Bell Ringer: Admiral Chester Nimitz (7:03) 

• Bell Ringer: The North African Campaign during World War II (6:47)

• Bell Ringer: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Internment (13:26)

• Bell Ringer: Life in Japanese Internment Camps (5:35)

• Bell Ringer: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (2:25)

• Bell Ringer: Sweet Pea at War: The Role of the USS Portland in World War II (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Battle of Midway (11:41)

• Bell Ringer: U.S. Navy Pilots at the Battle of Midway (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: A Bombing War: An Oral History (15 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Battle of Tarawa (1943) (6:09)

• Bell Ringer: World War II in the Pacific: First Fighters of New Guinea (2 Clips)

• On This Day: The Battle of Stalingrad (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: U.S. Supreme Court During WWII (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Korematsu v. United States (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Korematsu v. United States (7:15)

• Bell Ringer: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (2:25)

• Bell Ringer: The Double V Campaign During World War II (2:22)

• Lesson: Merrill's Marauders (18 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: The Casablanca Conference (3:36) 

• On This Day: The D-Day Invasion (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Interservice Rivalries and the Battle of Peleliu (1944) (3:28)

• On This Day: The Battle of the Bulge (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Ghost Army of World War II (6:59)

• Bell Ringer: The Mosquito Bowl and the Battle of Okinawa (4 Clips)

• On This Day: The Battle of Iwo Jima (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Battle of Iwo Jima (4 Clips)

• On This Day: The Battle of Okinawa (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Franklin Roosevelt's Final Term and Death (3:35)

• On This Day: The Yalta Conference (3 Clips)

• Video Clip: End of World War II in Europe Newsreel (3:49)

• Bell Ringer: Missing World War II Servicemen (2 Clips)

• On This Day: Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) (3 Clips)

• On This Day: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (6 Clips)

• On This Day: The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Truman’s Atomic Bomb Speech (3:09)

• Video Clip: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (11:50)

• Bell Ringer: The End of World War II and the Cold War (5:00)

• Bell Ringer: Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (7:21)

• Bell Ringer: World War II Propaganda (5:14)

• Lesson Plan: Hollywood and World War Two (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Tuskegee Airmen (6:47)

• Bell Ringer: Navajo Code Talkers (7:57)

• Bell Ringer: General Douglas MacArthur and World War II (4:34)

• Lesson Plan: Was using the atomic bomb on Japan necessary for ending World War II? (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Global Reaction at the End of World War II (3:29)

• Bell Ringer: The Battle to End Malaria in the US (6:32)

• Lesson Plan: Fort Hunt, a World War II POW Camp (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Black Americans and World War II (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Early Years of Martin Luther King Jr. (7:10)

• Lesson Plan: The Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The German Origins of the American Rocket Program (4:22)

• Bell Ringer: The Expanding Labor Force after World War II (3:25)

• Bell Ringer: Post World War II Consumerism and Advertising (3:54) 

• Bell Ringer: Levittown and Post-World War II Suburbanization (2:54)

• Bell Ringer: The Taft-Hartley Act (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Whistlestops and Harry Truman (2:33) 

• Bell Ringer: The Division of Germany and Berlin after World War II (5:37)

• Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the Building of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Containment and U.S. Strategy During the Cold War (4:30)

• Bell Ringer: Blinding of Isaac Woodard and Military Desegregation (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Truman Doctrine (4:41)

• On This Day: Marshall Plan (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Red Scare and McCarthyism (7 Clips)

• Video Clip: Hollywood and the House Un-American Activities Committee (4:11)

• Bell Ringer: Truman and the 1948 Election (2:51)

• Bell Ringer: Worker Productivity (1:54)

• Bell Ringer: The Berlin Airlift (9:53)

• Lesson Plan: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Real Story of Smokey Bear (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Korean War (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Oral Histories of the Korean War (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of the Korean War (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Fighting in the Korean War and its Legacy (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Henrietta Lacks (5:12)

• Video Clip: 1952 I Like Ike Campaign Ad (1:12)

• Bell Ringer: Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union (3:08)

• Lesson Plan: Major Events of the Cold War (14 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Cold War Anti-Communist Trading Cards (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Cold War-Era Educational Films (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Development of the Polio Vaccine (5:32)

• Lesson Plan: Lessons Learned from the Development of the Polio Vaccine (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Civil Defense and Fallout Shelters during the Cold War (4:36)

• Lesson Plan: The Emmett Till Story (8 clips)

• Lesson Plan: Firsthand Account of the Emmett Till Story (11 Clips & Slides)

• On This Day: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Public Transportation and Jim Crow (3:11)

• Bell Ringer: Suicide of Senator Lester Hunt (2:54)

• Lesson Plan: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Clinton High School: The First Desegregated Southern School (13 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Concept of Family in the 1950s (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The 1956 Southern Manifesto (6:24)

• Bell Ringer: 1956 Suez Crisis (14:52)

• Bell Ringer: North Little Rock High School Integration (6:29)

• On This Day: Little Rock Nine (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Carlotta Walls, Melba Patillo, and Claudette Colvin (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Young People During the Civil Rights Movement (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Young Civil Rights Activists and Selma, AL (6:51)

• Bell Ringer: History of the Telegram (4 Clips)

• On This Day: The Launch of Sputnik (5 Clips)

• Video Clip: History of the Space Race (6:26)

• Bell Ringer: The 1959 Kitchen Debate (5:24)

• Video Clip: Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate (14:20)

• Bell Ringer: The Use of Monkeys during the Space Program (2:33) 

• Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Story of the 1960s (6 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: The 1960 U-2 Spy Plane Incident (2:53)

• Video Clip: 1960 Kennedy - Nixon Debate (1:02:54)

• Lesson Plan: The 1960 Presidential Election (19 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the Building of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Movement: Sit-Ins (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Leader Mary Frances Early (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Bay of Pigs Invasion (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Bay of Pigs Invasion (7:11)

• On This Day: John Glenn Orbits the Earth (5 Clips)

• On This Day: Cuban Missile Crisis (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: NASA's Project Apollo (1961-75) (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: "Silent Spring Revolution" - Conservation Efforts in the U.S. (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: John F. Kennedy's Legacy (7:03)

• Bell Ringer: Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (4:16)

• Lesson Plan: The Vietnam War (10 Clips)

• On This Day: Vietnam War - Gulf of Tonkin Incident (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Donut Dollies (4:37)

• Bell Ringer: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (7:15)

• Lesson Plan: President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Initiatives (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The 24th Amendment (1:12)

• Lesson Plan: Voting Rights Marches in Selma (3 Clips) 

• Bell Ringer: Voting Rights Act of 1965 (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: The Voting Rights Act and African Americans in Congress (3:43)

• Bell Ringer: The 1966 Fulbright Hearings on the Vietnam War (2 Clips)

• Video Clip: 1966: Civil Rights Groups and Black Power (8:20)

• On This Day: The Tet Offensive (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Female Journalists During the Vietnam War (11 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Vietnam War Army Helicopter Pilot Dennis DuPuis (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: 1968 in Images (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Politics in 1968 (20 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: 1968: The Poor People's Campaign (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Labor Movement in the U.S. ( 8 Clips) 

• On This Day: Robert F. Kennedy Assassination (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Last Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. (3 Clip) 

• Lesson Plan: Richard Nixon and the 1968 Election (16 Clips)

• On This Day: The Silent Majority (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Chappaquiddick Incident (6:01)

• Bell Ringer: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (3:59)

• Bell Ringer: The Pentagon Papers and the New York Times Company v. U.S. (4:12)

• Lesson Plan: Michael O’Donnell: Vietnam War Helicopter Pilot (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 1970s and the Environment (11 Clips)

• On This Day: The May 4th Shootings at Kent State (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Weather Underground and the 1971 Bombing of the Capitol (5:27)

• Lesson Plan: 1970s Labor Movements (10 Clips)

• On This Day: Mayday Protests (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1972 Miami Dolphins Undefeated Team (6:40)

• Bell Ringer: The Nomination of Vice President Gerald Ford (5:06)

• Lesson Plan: Watergate Scandal and Investigation (9 Clips)

• Video Clip: Watergate Scandal and Trust in Government (3:28)

• Lesson Plan: Roe v. Wade (8 Clips)

• On This Day: OPEC Oil Embargo (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Paris Peace Accords (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Operation Babylift: The Children of the Vietnam War (11:59)

• Video Clip: Ford's Pardon of Nixon (2:30)

• Video Clip: President Jimmy Carter on the 1976 Election (3:27)

• Video Clip: Camp David Accords (6:09)

• On This Day: Three Mile Island Accident (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Iran Hostage Crisis (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Stagflation and the Early 1980s Recession (4:36)

• On This Day: Assassination Attempt of President Ronald Reagan (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Ronald Reagan and Conservatism (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Just Say No Campaign (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Reagan Administration and the AIDS Crisis (5:01)

• Lesson Plan: Ronald Reagan's Tear Down This Wall Speech (9 clips)

• On This Day: The U.S. Invasion of Grenada (6 Clips)

• On This Day: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (5 Clips)

• On This Day: Iran-Contra (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Iran-Contra Scandal (6:18)

• On This Day: Fall of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Making of American Fitness Culture (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 1990s (14 Clips)

• On This Day: Operation Desert Shield and the beginning of the Gulf War (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Operation Desert Storm (7:11)

• Lesson Plan: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Presidential Scandals during the Clinton Administration (3:17)

• Lesson Plan: Oklahoma City Bombing (4 Clips)

• On This Day: Oklahoma City Bombing (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Elian Gonzalez Controversy (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Donald Trump and the 2000 Presidential Election (4:31)

• Bell Ringer: The Immediate Aftermath of the 2000 Presidential Election (9:24)

• Lesson Plan: The 2000 Election and the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Ana Montes - Cuban Spy (12 Clips)

• On This Day: September 11, 2001 (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Immediate Impact of September 11, 2001 (2 clips)

• Lesson Plan: Reflections on 9/11 (3 clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Hijacking of Flight 93 (8:40)

• Bell Ringer: The Decision to Invade Iraq (6:21)

• Video Clip: The Bush Doctrine (4:29)

• On This Day: Iraq War (8 Clips)

• On This Day: Capture of Saddam Hussein (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The War on Terror (4:14)

• Bell Ringer: The 2008 Financial Crisis (4:06)

• On This Day: The Election of Barack Obama (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Obama and the Media (3:18)

• Lesson Plan: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The James Webb Space Telescope (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Hollywood and History (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Changing American Demographics (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Sagittarius A* and NASA's Perseverance Rover (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Polynesian Voyaging (6:35)

• Bell Ringer: U.S - China Trade Following the Revolutionary War (4:57) 

• Video Clip: Trade in Canton, China (4:07)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Arrive in California in 1848 (5:04)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Immigration in the U.S. in the 19th Century (6:27)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Involvement in Westward Expansion (8:01)

• Bell Ringer: The Burlingame Treaty (3:16)

• On This Day: Chinese Exclusion Act (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Angel Island and Chinese Immigration (2:24)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Expulsion and Reconciliation (6:45)

• Lesson Plan: Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) (8 Clips)

• On This Day: The 1898 Treaty of Paris (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Geary Act (2:42)

• Bell Ringer: Prejudice Against Asian Immigrants Prior to 1940 (4:00)

• Bell Ringer: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Americans (13:26)

• Bell Ringer: The Displacement of Japanese Americans (9:22)

• Bell Ringer: Life in Japanese Internment Camps (5:38)

• Lesson Plan: Korematsu v. United States (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (2:25)

• Bell Ringer: The Magnuson Act (1:43)

• Bell Ringer: Filipino Soldiers in the U.S. Military during World War II (6:33)

• Video Clip: Hawaii State Capitol and Statehood (12:08)

• Video Clip: Eddie Would Go (10:56)

• Bell Ringer: Asian American Activism in the 1960s (3:32)

• Bell Ringer: The Hmong People (11:15)

• Bell Ringer: Operation Babylift: The Children of the Vietnam War (12:09)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Immigration to the United States (5:23)

• Bell Ringer: The Life of Rep. Patsy Mink (3:32)

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Population in America (2:17)

• Video Clip: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (3:36)

• Video Clip: Rep. Chu (D-CA) on Congressional Apology to Chinese Americans (1:58)

• Bell Ringer: Hawaii's Past and Present (4:30)

• Video Clip: Walking Tour of Chinatown in San Francisco (10:52)

• Video Clip: StudentCam 2018: Refugee of Spirit (7:20)

Enslavement

• Bell Ringer: Significance of the Black Church (3 Clips)

• Video Clip: History of Juneteenth (7:06)

• Lesson: Slavery in the Northern Colonies (12 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Significance of Context in History (2:51)

• Bell Ringer: Black History Represented in Popular Movies (5:51)

• Bell Ringer: The Dictionary Project (5:33)

• Bell Ringer: The Relationship between Clothing, Race and Politics (4:13)

• Lesson Plan: Evolution of Slavery (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The First Africans Brought to Virginia (7:29)

• Bell Ringer: The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage (6:23)

• Bell Ringer: Tobacco and Slavery in Colonial Virginia (5:37)

• Bell Ringer: The Slave Market in Mobile, Alabama (3:02) 

• Bell Ringer: Phillis Wheatley (2:55)

• On This Day: The Haitian Revolution of 1791 (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family (14:38)

• Bell Ringer: Early Life of Harriet Tubman (3:36)

• Bell Ringer: Origin of the Underground Railroad (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Nat Turner Rebellion (5:46)

• Bell Ringer: The Domestic Slave Trade (3:19)

• Bell Ringer: History of Cotton in Memphis (9:18)

• Bell Ringer: Underground Railroad Freedom Center (6:34)

• Bell Ringer: Solomon Northup: 12 Years a Slave (8:11)

• Bell Ringer: Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Escape from Enslavement - William and Ellen Craft (17 Clips & Slides)

• Video Clip: Harriet Tubman's Life and Legacy (4:01)

• Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v Sandford (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Raid on Harpers Ferry (5:09)

• Bell Ringer: Legacy of Slavery at Universities (5:22)

• Bell Ringer: Last Living Survivor of the Clotilda - Redoshi (7:09)

• Bell Ringer: Mobile, AL: Slavery and the Clotilda (9:47)

The Civil War and Reconstruction

• Bell Ringer: Harriet Tubman during the Civil War (2:27)

• On This Day: Emancipation Proclamation (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: African American Civil War Era Letters (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Prejudice and Inequality for Black Soldiers (7:13)

• Lesson Plan: African American Letters to Abraham Lincoln (15 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War (5 Clips)

• On This Day: Life and Contributions of Frederick Douglass (8 Clips)

• Video Clip: Wallace Turnage: Escape from Slavery (4:07)

• On This Day: Juneteenth (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1866 Memphis Massacre (7:08)

• Bell Ringer: Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass (10:24)

• Bell Ringer: 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (4:36)

Jim Crow Era

• Bell Ringer: Pullman Porters (5:50)

• Bell Ringer: Segregated Societies (5:06)

• Bell Ringer: Beale Street and Memphis (8:05)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Cases (1883) (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Freedman's Bureau (6:32)

• Bell Ringer: Jim Crow Laws (9:04)

• Bell Ringer: Poll Taxes (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: African American Migration to Iowa (5:42) 

• Bell Ringer: California Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Biddy Mason (7:35)

• Video Clip: Josephine Allen Private Institute, Mobile, AL (1:43) 

• Bell Ringer: George Washington Carver (2:33)

• Lesson Plan: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Wilmington's 1898 Insurrection (16:02)

• Bell Ringer: Anne Spencer and The Harlem Renaissance (5:52)

• Bell Ringer: Booker T. Washington (11:05)

• Bell Ringer: Rosenwald Schools in the South (5:40)

• Lesson Plan: Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Impact of W.E.B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey (4:38)

• Bell Ringer: W. E. B. Du Bois (5:06)

• Bell Ringer: Ida B. Wells Anti-Lynching Campaign (2 Clips)

• Video Clip: Madame C.J. Walker (6:00) 

• Lesson Plan: The Green Book (11 Clips)

World War I to World War II

• Bell Ringer: W.E.B. DuBois "Close Ranks" (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: A Historical Overview of Segregation (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1919 "Red Summer" (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Claude Barnett & African American Entrepreneurship (11:57)

• Video Clip: James Weldon Johnson (1:48)

• Bell Ringer: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (3:57)

• Bell Ringer: The NAACP and Jim Crow (3:44)

• Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Great Migration and Black Representation in Congress (3:58)

• Bell Ringer: The Great Migration: The African American Exodus from the South (5:07)

• Bell Ringer: The Great Migration and the Political Climate of the South (7:55)

• Video Clip: Detroit Music from Jazz to Hip Hop (9:36)

• On This Day: Tulsa Race Massacre (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Origins of the NAACP (3:53)

• Bell Ringer: Carter G. Woodson: Publications and African American History Month (2:52)

• Lesson Plan: Trailblazer Althea Gibson (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Carter G. Woodson (3:18)

• On This Day: Jesse Owens Wins First of Four Gold Medals (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: African Americans in WWI (9:54)

• Bell Ringer: The Origins of Redlining (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: Detroit's Birwood Wall (6:27)

• Bell Ringer: Detroit's Paradise Valley (3:43)

• Bell Ringer: Dr. Robert Johnson and Tennis Desegregation (7:11) 

• Bell Ringer: The Tuskegee Airmen (6:47)

• Lesson Plan: Black Americans and World War II (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Early Years of Martin Luther King Jr. (7:10)

Civil Rights Movement

• On This Day: James Arthur Baldwin Birthday (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Mary McLeod Bethune (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Important Figures in the Early Fight for Civil Rights (4:21)

• Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Jackie Robinson's Impact on the Civil Rights Movement (1:48)

• Bell Ringer: Media Coverage of Jackie Robinson (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Longevity of Jackie Robinson's Legacy (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Green Book Travel Guide (4:48)

• Bell Ringer: Brown v. Board of Education (5:37)

• Lesson Plan: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Clinton High School: The First Desegregated Southern School (13 Clips)

• On This Day: Little Rock Nine (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Integration of Little Rock Central High School (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Legacy of Little Rock Nine (2:32)

• Bell Ringer: Who was Daisy Bates? (0:34)

• Bell Ringer: Carlotta Walls, Melba Patillo, and Claudette Colvin (2 Clips)

• Video Clip: Little Rock Nine Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony (13:50)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Leader Mary Frances Early (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Henrietta Lacks (5:12)

• Bell Ringer: Emmett Till's Kidnapping and Murder (8:51)

• Lesson Plan: Firsthand Account of the Emmett Till Story (11 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: The Early Life of Malcolm X (6:16)

• Bell Ringer: The Transformation of Malcolm X (7:52)

• Bell Ringer: Stokely Carmichael and Civil Rights Between 1954 and 1965 (10:43)

• Bell Ringer: Claude Barnett & African American Entrepreneurship (12:00)

• Video Clip: Loving v. Virginia (4:15)

• On This Day: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Freedom Riders (11:59)

• Bell Ringer: CORE: Congress of Racial Equality (1:30)

• Bell Ringer: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins (6:16)

• Lesson Plan: The Ruby Bridges Story (6 Clips and Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Medgar and Myrlie Evers (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman (5:56)

• Bell Ringer: The 1963 March on Washington (11:49)

• Bell Ringer: Dr. King on the Meaning of Civil Rights (4:01)

• Bell Ringer: Gandhi's Influence on Dr. King (2:41)

• Lesson Plan: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Constance Baker Motley (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Freedom Summer School (4:57)

• Bell Ringer: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (7:15)

• Video Clip: President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 (3:08)

• Bell Ringer: The Voting Rights Act and African Americans in Congress (3:43)

• Bell Ringer: The Murders of Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb (2 clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Fred Shuttlesworth (6:59)

• Bell Ringer: School Integration in Riverside, CA (4:27)

• Bell Ringer: 1966 Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, AL (4:19)

• On This Day: Thurgood Marshall Nominated to Supreme Court (3 Clips)

• On This Day: Thurgood Marshall Confirmed As 1st Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The 1967 Detroit Riots (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Last Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. (3 Clips)

• On This Day: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Life, Death, Legacy (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (7:39)

• Bell Ringer: The Mississippi Plan and Voting Rights (3:44)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights Movement: Sit-Ins (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Julian Bond on Civil Disobedience (3:17)

• Lesson Plan: Voting Rights Marches in Selma (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Edmund Pettus Bridge (6:46)

• Bell Ringer: Voting Rights in the South and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (4:33)

• Lesson Plan: 1968: The Poor People's Campaign (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The African American Liberation Movement (8:26)

• On This Day: Black Panther Party (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Photographs of the Black Panther Party (6:45)

• Bell Ringer: The Wilmington Ten (5:51)

Recent History

• On This Day: Origin of Hip Hop (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Shirley Chisholm and Black Women in Politics (3:48)

• Bell Ringer: Maya Angelou (5:15)

• Video Clip: Maya Angelou Poem - On the Pulse of Morning (5:43)

• Bell Ringer: The Concept of Systemic Racism (3:29)

• Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Black Lives Matter Movement (3:05)

• Video Clip: Mary McLeod Bethune Statue Dedication in National Statuary Hall (4:16)

• Video Clip: History of Spanish Culture in the US (1:26)

• Bell Ringer: Hispanics in the United States (3:09)

• On This Day: National Hispanic Heritage Month (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Spanish Empire and Missions in North America (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Chile Pepper and New Mexico (3:54)

• Bell Ringer: The Spanish Settlement of Los Angeles (2:45)

• Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)

• Video Clip: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (4:30)

• On This Day: Cinco de Mayo (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: U.S. - Cuba Relationship in 1890 (3:36)

• On This Day: The 1898 Treaty of Paris (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The History of Barriers on the U.S.-Mexico Border (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean (7:48)

• Bell Ringer: U.S.-Mexican Relations and Immigration (14:59)

• Lesson Plan: History of Hispanic Americans in Congress (Choice Board Activity)

• Bell Ringer: Jose Martí and 19th Century Race Relations in the United States (15:09)

• Bell Ringer: The History of Puerto Rico and US Citizenship (7:03)

• Video Clip: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (12:18)

• Bell Ringer: Mendez v. Westminster School District (2 Clips)

• On This Day: Puerto Rico Commonwealth Constitution Day (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: History of Puerto Rico's Economy (5:47)

• Bell Ringer: The Bracero Program (1:29)

• Bell Ringer: Tensions Leading to the Zoot Suit Riots (3:21)

• Bell Ringer: Zoot Suit Riots (2:40)

• Lesson Plan: Bay of Pigs Invasion (11 Clips)

• 1960s Bell Ringer: Chicano Movement (7:47)

• Bell Ringer: Roberto Clemente (1:50)

• Bell Ringer: United Farm Workers Co-Founder Dolores Huerta (8:54)

• Bell Ringer: Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (4:16)

• On This Day: Cesar Chavez Day (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Political Status of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (5:23)

• Lesson Plan: Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Clip and Activities)

• Bell Ringer: Sylvia Mendez 2010 Medal of Freedom (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Comparing the Hispanic Vote in 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2020 (3 Clips)

• Video Clip: Isabel Allende 2018 National Book Awards (5:12)

• Video Clip: U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera (9:32)

• Bell Ringer: Latino American Immigration in the U.S. (4:02)

• Bell Ringer: Underrepresented Communities and Diversity in Politics (3:15)

• Bell Ringer: Congressional Representation for U.S. Territories (2:36)

• Lesson Plan: Who Tells Your (Imperfect) Story? (3 Clips)

Chronological History

• Clip: Walt Whitman Poetry (1:30)

• Bell Ringer: The Lavender Scare (3:25)

• Bell Ringer: Activist Lilli Vincenz (8:04)

• On This Day: The Stonewall Riots (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots (3 Clips)

• On This Day: The Assassination of Harvey Milk (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1988 AIDS Protest at the FDA (2 Clips)

• Lesson: Don't Ask, Don't Tell (8 Clips)

• Clip: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. (1:39)

• Clip: United States v. Windsor (2012) (1:54)

• On This Day: Obergefell v Hodges Decided (2 Clips)

• Clip: Supreme Court Rules 7-2 in Favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop (4:44)

• Clip: The Equality Act and LGBTQ Discrimination (5:12)

• Clip: Overview of LGBTQ Employment Discrimination Supreme Court Cases (3:26)

• Clip: Mayor Pete Buttigieg Announced as Transportation Secretary Nominee (2:24)

• Clip: Supreme Court Ruling on Protections for LGBTQ Workers (5:00)

• Clip: House Passes the Equality Act (3:07)

Modern and Topical Issues

• Clip: Battle Between Florida Governor DeSantis and Disney (9:31)

• Bell Ringer: LGBTQIA Foreign Policy Priorities (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Grassroots Activism (2:29)

• Bell Ringer: Civil Rights (2 Clips)

• Lesson: Presidential Candidate Firsts (8 Clips)

• Lesson: Landmark LGBT Supreme Court Cases (9 Clips)

• Lesson: The Making of American Fitness Culture (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Native Americans in Paleolithic and Archaic Periods (4:23)

• Video Clip: Indigenous People of the Great Plains (9:12) 

• Bell Ringer: Pueblo Tribes and the Wupatki National Monument (7:30)

• Bell Ringer: Native American Pictographs in Montana (6:04)

• Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Seminole Nation (3:04)

• Bell Ringer: Chumash Indians in Southern California (6:09)

• Bell Ringer: Native Americans in San Luis Obispo (5:33)

• Bell Ringer: Tongva People in Southern California (5:52)

• Bell Ringer: Moundville Archaeological Park (7:26)

• Bell Ringer: The Significance of Pocahontas in History (5:36)

• Lesson Plan: The Thanksgiving Story - "This Land Is Their Land" (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Pocahontas, Algonquian Indians and Jamestown (7:58)

• Bell Ringer: Native American Governance and the U.S. Constitution (1:41)

• Bell Ringer: Early Treaties with Native Americans (4:06)

• Bell Ringer: French Colonies in North America and Indian Alliances (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade (9:19)

• Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade in Idaho (2:29)

• Video Clip: Native Americans and the French and Indian War (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: Legacy of Tecumseh (7:21)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Stickball (1:40)

• Bell Ringer: The Seminoles (13:46)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Removal Act of 1830 (6:48)

• Bell Ringer: Nome Cult Trail (7:01)

• Bell Ringer: California Indian Catastrophe and the Gold Rush (5:24)

• Bell Ringer: Chief Left Hand (9:20)

• Lesson Plan: Alaska Native Culture Groups (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: History of the Native People of Southeastern Alaska (8:32)

• Bell Ringer: American Indian Artifacts and the Yankton Tribe (4:03)

• Bell Ringer: Sand Creek Massacre (4:55)

• Bell Ringer: Red Cloud's War and Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming (7:57)

• Bell Ringer: Dakota Indians and Fort Snelling (3:57)

• Lesson Plan: The Legacy of the Battle of Little Bighorn (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Leaders of the Nez Perce Wars (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: History of the Utes in Colorado (4:35)

• Bell Ringer: 1879 White River Massacre (Ute War) (10:09)

• Bell Ringer: Coeur D’Alene Tribe (6:13)

• Bell Ringer: Standing Bear v. Crook (1879) (9:12)

• Video Clip: Wounded Knee and Black Elk (3:17)

• Bell Ringer: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (3:31)

• Lesson Plan: The Osage Native Americans - Removal, Wealth, Murder (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Society of American Indians Conference (5:37)

• Bell Ringer: Indian Boarding Schools and Assimilation (2:41)

• Bell Ringer: The Red Power Movement and the Occupation of Alcatraz (4:43)

• Bell Ringer: Pojoaque Pueblo Tribal Government (7:30)

• Bell Ringer: Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Iroquois Nation (7:58)

• Bell Ringer: Native American Entrepreneurship on Reservations (5:47)

• Bell Ringer: Native Americans and the U.S. Armed Forces (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Use of American Indian Imagery in American Culture (2:29)

• Video Clip: Native Americans and Common Stereotypes (4:12)

• Bell Ringer: Native American Citizenship (8:32)

• Video Clip: Native American Representation in Congress (4:30)

• Bell Ringer: American Indian Sports Names and Mascots (6:22)

• Lesson Plan: Native American Art and Museum Collections (10 Clips)

Chronological History

• Lesson Plan: Early Women in Congress (Multiple Options)

• Video Clip: Women's Contributions in US History (3:11)

• Video Clip: Mary Wollstonecraft (2:45)

• Bell Ringer: Industrialization and Lowell Mill Girls (4:49)

• Bell Ringer: Lucy Stone: Suffragette and Abolitionist (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist Abby Kelley Foster (5:07)

• Video Clip: Harriet Tubman's Life and Legacy (4:01)

• Lesson Plan: The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: New Women in the Old West (3 Clips)

• Video Clip: Women during the California Gold Rush (2:05)

• Lesson Plan: Women's Contributions in the Civil War (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Rose Greenhow: Socialite, Secessionist, and Civil War Spy (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Women’s Rights After the Civil War (1860s-1880s) (9 clips)

• Bell Ringer: Civil War: Women and Nursing in the South (11:29)

• Bell Ringer: Women in Victorian-Era Medicine (4:21)

• Bell Ringer: Wyoming Women's Suffrage (6:32)

• Video Clip: Women's Suffrage before the 19th Amendment (2:35)

• Lesson Plan: Women's Suffragist Tactics (7 clips)

• Bell Ringer: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (2:14)

• Bell Ringer: Women's Christian Temperance Union and Suffrage (3:24)

• Bell Ringer: The Role of Women in Late-1800s American Medicine (4:40)

• Bell Ringer: Western Women in the 19th Century (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Changes in the Labor Force in the 1890s (3;39)

• Bell Ringer: First Female Presidential Candidate: Victoria Woodhull (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Female Reporters in the 19th Century (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Jane Addams and John Dewey (4 Clips)

• On This Day: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe (9:14)

• Bell Ringer: The Congressional Career of Jeannette Rankin (5:52)

• Bell Ringer: US Women Soldiers During World War I (4:20)

• Video Clip: The National Woman's Party and Alice Paul (2:28)

• Bell Ringer: Opposition to the Women's Suffrage Movement (3:38)

• Bell Ringer: The Nineteenth Amendment (7:28)

• Bell Ringer: The Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment (5:34)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Conversations with Suffragists (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Women's Suffrage (6:09)

• Lesson Plan: Trailblazer Althea Gibson (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (3:57)

• Bell Ringer: Mary McLeod Bethune (2 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: First Women in Congress (3:27)

• Video Clip: Jeannette Rankin and Female Representation in Congress (2:03)

• Bell Ringer: Nellie Tayloe Ross: The First Female Governor in the US (5:24)

• Video Clip: Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton (3: 27) 

• Bell Ringer: Rebecca Felton and Gladys Pyle (5:53)

• Video Clip: Congresswoman Mary Norton (2:15) 

• Video Clip: Congresswoman Florence Kahn (3:30) 

• Video Clip: Congresswoman Coya Knutson (3:37) 

• Bell Ringer: The Early Life of Betty Friedan (5:49)

• On This Day: Publication of The Feminine Mystique (4 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Barbizon Hotel and the New Woman (2 clips) 

• Bell Ringer: Virginia Hall, American Spy During World War II (2:16) 

• Bell Ringer: Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Women Who Programmed The First Computer (17 Clips & Slides)

• Bell Ringer: Henrietta Lacks (5:12)

• Bell Ringer: Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (4:16)

• Video Clip: Congresswoman Martha Griffiths (3:35)

• Video Clip: Senator Margaret Chase Smith (3:23)

• Lesson Plan: Constance Baker Motley (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Title IX (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Origin and Impact of Title IX Legislation (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Roe v. Wade (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Rep. Patsy Mink (3:32)

• Bell Ringer: Shirley Chisholm and Black Women in Politics (3:48)

• Video Clip: Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (3:46)

• Lesson Plan: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (9 Clips)

• On This Day: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Sworn In (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Christa McAuliffe (5:46)

• On This Day: Janet Reno Confirmed as First Woman U.S. Attorney General (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Opening Statements of Female Supreme Court Justices (6 Clips)