University Level Resources

Timeless Resources

• Lesson Plan: Analyzing Historical Presidential Inaugural Addresses (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Most Despised U.S. Presidents (6 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Communication during Times of Crisis (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - US Presidents and the Press (14 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Speeches That Defined A Presidency (27 Clips & Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Landscapes and History (8 Clips)

Chronological Resources

• Website: C-SPAN Classroom's On This Day in History Resources

• Lesson Plan: Thomas Paine and Common Sense (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Weapons of the American Revolutionary War (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: George Washington and Mount Vernon (9 Clips)

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

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Civil War Battles (20 Clips)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Wives of the Civil War Presidents (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Women's Rights After the Civil War (1860s-1880s) (9 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Reconstruction Era (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Grand Canyon - John Wesley Powell Expedition (3 Clips)

Timeless Resources

• Lesson Plan: Analyzing Historical Presidential Inaugural Addresses (23 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Most Despised U.S. Presidents (6 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Communication during Times of Crisis (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - US Presidents and the Press (14 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - How Effective Are Presidential Campaign Ads? (11 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: The Presidential Medal of Freedom (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Hollywood and History (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Changing American Demographics (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Oral Histories - A How-To (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Speeches That Defined A Presidency (27 Clips & Slides)

• Lesson Plan: American Generations (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Voice - D-Day Speeches (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Love Letters (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Baseball and American Culture (16 Clips & Slides)

Chronological Resources

• Website: C-SPAN Classroom's On This Day in History Resources

• Lesson Plan: The Gilded Age (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: American Antisemitism in the Early 1900s (8 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: The Osage Native Americans - Removal, Wealth, Murder (5 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: WWI: United States Military in France in 1918 (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Historic American Business Leaders (10 Clips and Slides)

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Hunger during the Great Depression (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Great Depression (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The New Deal (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Inside the White House After Pearl Harbor (16 Clips)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: The GI Bill (8 Clips)

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

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Counterculture of the 1950s-1960s (6 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: The Emmett Till Story (8 Clips and Slides)

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

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Teaching Combat Surgery - Vietnam War Era (15:31)

• Lesson Plan: Civil Rights - 1966 James Meredith March Against Fear (5 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: 1968 in Images (9 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case - New York Times v United States (1971) (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Christian Nightlife in the 1970s (20 Clips & Slides)

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: The 1990s (14 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Reactions to the January 6 Attacks on the US Capitol (10 Clips)

• Deliberation: Has the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had a positive or negative impact? (9 Clips)

• Website: C-SPAN Classroom's On This Day in History Resources

• Lesson Plan: Charles Darwin's Experiments (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Iron Curtain and The Marshall Plan (2 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: Genocide (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: U.S. Intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo (6 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Role of the World Health Organization (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Paris Climate Agreement and Future Global Climate Policies (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Structure of the United Nations (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Cold War and Global Literature (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Modern World Leaders (47 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Globalization - Twentieth Century International Organizations (20 Clips)

U.S. Constitution 

• Website: C-SPAN Classroom's Constitution Clips

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

• Lesson Plan: Enumerated and Implied Powers of Congress (1 Clip)

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

• Lesson Plan: The Bill of Rights in Modern Times (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: 16th Amendment and Income Taxes (8 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: The 25th Amendment: Presidential Disability and Succession (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (9 Clips)

• Deliberation: Should the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Be Ratified? (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Purposes of Government (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Constitutional Rights of Corporations (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Presidential Pardons (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Checks and Balances (10 Clips)

• Deliberation: Should the Federal Government Regulate States’ Election Procedures? (10 Clips)

• Deliberation: Should Congress expand the size of the Supreme Court? (8 Clips)

Structure of Government

• Lesson Plan: The Functions of Political Parties (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Introduction to Congressional Committees (2 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Congressional Committees (14 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Roles of Congressional Leadership Positions (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The State of the Union Address (3 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Policymaking and the Three Branches of Government (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Researching Your US Senators (3 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Researching Your Members in the US House of Representatives (4 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Senate Impeachment Trials of the President (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Congressional Oversight of the Executive Branch (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Congressional Power of Impeachment (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Use of Presidential Vetoes and Veto Threats (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Differences Between the House and the Senate (8 Clips)

Operations of Government 

• Website: C-SPAN Classroom's Classroom Deliberations Website

• Lesson Plan: The Redistricting Process: How States Draw District Maps (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: How to Interpret Political Polls (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: How Interest Groups Work (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Voting Discrimination and the Effects of Shelby County v Holder (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Demographics and Political Alignment (5 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson Plan: Overview of the Census (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Role of the Federal Government in Education (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Examples of Regulatory Agencies (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Libel Laws and the Press: New York Times v. Sullivan (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Student Free Speech Since 1969 (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Title IX (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Should the government forgive federal student loan debt? (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Why Do Americans Not Vote in Elections? (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Expansion of Voting in the United States (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections (9 Clips)

• Deliberation: Should the Electoral College Be Reformed? (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Social Media's Role in Democracy (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Using Technology to Increase Effectiveness in Congress (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Jury Trials in Criminal Cases (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The Steps in a Supreme Court Case (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Selective Service (5 Clips)

Supreme Court Cases

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Marbury v Madison (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (5 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Dred Scott v Sandford (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Slaughterhouse Cases (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Civil Rights Cases (1883) (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Plessy v Ferguson (1896) (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Schenck v United States (1919) (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Korematsu v United States (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Mapp v Ohio (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Baker v Carr (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark LGBT Supreme Court Cases (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Gideon V Wainwright (1963) (10 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Griswold v Connecticut (1965) (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Miranda v Arizona (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Katz v. United States (1967) (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v Des Moines (1969) (12 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case - New York Times v United States (1971) (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Landmark Supreme Court Case: Roe v Wade (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Supreme Court Landmark Case Gregg v. Georgia (1976) (11 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Supreme Court Landmark Case: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) (10 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: The Impact of Citizens United v. FEC (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Second Amendment Supreme Court Cases: DC v Heller and McDonald v Chicago (6 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Sectors of the Economy (3 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: US Tax Rates Compared to Other Countries (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Employee Free Choice Act (4 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: The History of Tariffs in the United States (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Trade Policy: Tariffs and Free Trade (9 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: Replacing NAFTA: The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) (8 Clips)