Middle School U.S. History

• Lesson: Inquiry: Was the American Revolution justified? (19 Clips)

• Lesson: Inquiry: Were the leaders of the Early Republic effective? (35 Clips)

Native Americans

• Bell Ringer: Pueblo Tribes and the Wupatki National Monument (7:29)

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

• Video Clip: Indigenous People of the Great Plains (9:27)

• Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Seminole Nation (3:04) 

• Bell Ringer: Moundville Archaeological Park (7:26) 

• Bell Ringer: Pictograph Cave in Montana (6:04)

Spanish Empire

• 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) 

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

English Colonies

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Jamestown (6:32) 

• Bell Ringer: Pocahontas (5:36) 

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: The Pilgrim Story (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Carolina Charter of 1663 and Self-Government (3:00) 

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Native Americans and the Colonization of New York (4:11)

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

French Colonies

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

• Bell Ringer: The French Settlement of Mobile, Alabama (3:25)

• Bell Ringer: The Settlement of Detroit and New France (3:50)

• Bell Ringer: The Fur Trade (9:19) 

French and Indian War

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

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

• 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)

Revolutionary War

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

• Bell Ringer: Phillis Wheatley (2:55)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Boston Massacre (1 Clip)

• Bell Ringer: The Stamp Act (1:41)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)

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

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

The Constitutional Convention and Ratification

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

• Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Constitutional Debate Choice Board- George Mason v. James Madison (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: We the People (2:14) 

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

• Lesson Plan: Jefferson vs. Hamilton - The Debate over the need for a Bill of Rights (6 Clips) 

The Early Republic

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Whiskey Rebellion (2 Clips)

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

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

• Bell Ringer: The Legacy of Chief Justice John Marshall (2:10)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1800 - John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson (16 Clips)

• Video Clip: Mission of Lewis and Clark Expedition (1:25)

• Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition (10:48) 

The War of 1812

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

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: War of 1812 (Clips and Activities)

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

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: The Erie Canal (4:48)

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

• Bell Ringer: First Lady Elizabeth Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings (2:51)

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: The Second Great Awakening (4:30)

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

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery (9:40)

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

• Bell Ringer: Slavery and the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania (12:03)

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe (9:27)

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

• Video Clip: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (12:30)

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

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Bleeding Kansas (7:11) 

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

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1860 - Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas vs. John Breckinridge (13 Clips)

The Civil War

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Confederate Flags and the American Civil War (16:56)

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (4:12) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• On This Day: President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination (4 Clips)

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

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

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

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

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

Reconstruction

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

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden (11 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 Dawes Act and Indian Land Ownership (4:30)

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

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

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Chinese Expulsion and Reconciliation (6:36)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: The Gilded Age (7 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Choice Board: The Gilded Age (Clips and Activities)

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

• Bell Ringer: Plessy v. Ferguson- Arrest of Homer Plessy (2:01)

• 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: Assassination of President McKinley (12:08)

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Theodore Roosevelt and Conservationism (7:47)

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1912 - William Howard Taft vs. Woodrow Wilson vs. Theodore Roosevelt (17 Clips)

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: World War I: Comparing German and United States Soldiers (2 Clips)

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

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

• 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) 

• 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

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

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

1918-1929

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

• Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips) 

• Bell Ringer: Henry Ford and the Model T (4:40)

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

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

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

• On This Day: Scopes Trial (5 Clips) 

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1932 - Herbert Hoover vs. Franklin Roosevelt (11 Clips)

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

• Bell Ringer: Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 Inauguration (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: Franklin Roosevelt's First 100 Days (:52)

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

• Bell Ringer: The Hoover Dam (6:51)

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

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

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

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)

• Lesson Plan: World War II (10 Clips)

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

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

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

• 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: 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)

• On This Day: Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) (3 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: The German Origins of the American Rocket Program (4:22)

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

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1948 - Harry Truman vs. Thomas Dewey (13 Clips)

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

• 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)

• Bell Ringer: Korean War (10:58)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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: The Ruby Bridges Story (6 Clips & Slides)

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

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1960 - John Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon (15 Clips)

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

• Video Clip: Bay of Pigs Invasion (9:55)

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

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

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

• Bell Ringer: Chicano Movement (7:47)

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

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

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

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

• Lesson Plan: 1968 in Images (9 Clips)

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1968 - Richard Nixon vs Hubert Humphrey vs George Wallace (15 Clips)

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

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

1970-1989 

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

• Video Clip: The Watergate Break-In and the Role of the White House (4:34)

• Video Clip: Watergate- Nixon's Obstruction of Justice and Taping of Conversations (5:30)

• 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) 

• Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1980 - Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan (15 Clips)

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

• On This Day: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Sworn In (6 Clips)

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

1990 - Present 

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

• Bell Ringer: President George H. W. Bush - Biography (4:56)

• Lesson Plan: America with Disabilities Act (2 Clips)

• On This Day: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (7 Clips)

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

• On This Day: Bush v. Gore (6 Clips)

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

• On This Day: The Establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (4 Clips)

• On This Day: Iraq War (8 Clips)

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

• Lesson Plan: Justice Sonia Sotomayor (1 Clip)

• Lesson Plan: Hollywood and History (7 Clips)