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Daily News Lesson July 08 2026

Student Voices: America 250 series on a nation in progress

The founding-era documents are traveling beyond Washington, D.C., for the first time
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Daily News Lesson July 01 2026

Walter Isaacson on what he calls 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written'

Discuss the first line of the Declaration of Independence, and then find the line in foundational documents that align best with your own ideals
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Daily News Lesson February 26 2026

As America turns 250, historian Joseph Ellis examines the founders’ promise and their failures

Learn more why Ellis describes slavery and the treatment of Native Americans as great contradictions in American history
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Daily News Lesson February 09 2024

How America's history of racism connects to divisions today

This daily news lesson is based on Judy Woodruff's America at a Crossroads series
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Daily News Lesson July 06 2022

How Americans view their country and identity
Have your students write their own response to the question “What does it mean for you to be an American?” for a chance to be published on PBS NewsHour Classroom!

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