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Post February 17 2025

Q&A: Author Kenneth C. Davis on the Founding Fathers and slavery, America's "great contradiction"

A conversation about U.S. history, the presidents and slavery and how we teach it

FILE PHOTO: A procession carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias during the civil rights march on Washington D.C.

Daily News Lesson February 14 2025

The history of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in America

This Black History Month, explore the origins of DEI in America with News Hour's “Hidden Histories” series

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Daily News Lesson October 28 2024

A Democracy Minute: John Lewis on nonviolence in America

Watch and reflect on these 60-second video clips about democracy in America

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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

Trump supporters breach the US Capitol

Lesson Plan January 05 2022

Lesson plan: Connecting Post-Civil War mob violence and the Capitol Hill Riot

Explore historical parallels between the aftermath of the Capitol Hill Riot and the Reconstruction period following the Civil War

Handout photo of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signing a restrictive voting bill

Post April 28 2021

Compare state voting laws today with laws of the Jim Crow era

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Lesson Plan January 10 2021

Insurrections in American History: 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries

To discuss after the mob violence at the Capitol on January 6th: How are race and class connected to insurrections in the history of our country?

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Post June 10 2020

Teaching in the age of coronavirus -- Week 11: No Justice, No Peace

Photo credit: Maximillian Re-Sugiura By Sari Beth Rosenberg Week 11 of remote …

Protests after the death of George Floyd, in Washington

Daily Video June 09 2020

What does it mean to “defund the police”?

In this NewsHour lesson plan, learn about the current debate over defunding the police.

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Daily Video October 24 2018

Monitoring the Midterms: Voter ID laws and America's history of voter suppression

DOWNLOAD VIDEO Directions: Read the summary with your students, watch the video (…

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