68.77.89 is designed for students in grades 9-12. It provides a set of 12 learning activities in 4 modules that meet Common Core, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate standards. The activities can be used as a set designed to be used together, or in single modules as free-standing lessons.Students will read excerpts of relevant literature, listen and watch excerpts of oral histories, view excerpts of media of the time, and respond to compelling questions to stimulate deep class discussion.
Students will be challenged to apply the lessons from the experiences of Czechs and Slovaks to better understand issues of democracy today and their responsibility for preserving democracy for the future.

Considered one of America's most devestating conflicts, King Philip's War had years-long impacts for colonists, and deep-lasting ramifications for Native populations of Southern New England for centuries.

After slaves revolted and took control of the Amistad in 1839, Americans captured the ship off Long Island and imprisoned the slaves in New Haven. A US Supreme Court trial in which Roger Sherman Baldwin and John Quincy Adams defended the slaves, ultimately won them their freedom.

This provides teachers with some materials to explore anticolonial nationalism and independence in Southeast Asia. It is designed with an AP World History class in mind, but could also be used in a non-AP world history course. It begins with a storymap to introduce students to the topic, and includes additional readings, both secondary source (book review) and primary source, as well as discussion questions and research opportunities. 

After completing this lesson, students will have a broad understanding of Appalachian music including who makes it, where it comes from, and what types of people enjoy and participate in it. By exploring a wide and inclusive range of Appalachian performers, students will also have a broader, more complicated understanding of Appalachian music. In addition to understanding Appalachian musical styles beyond stereotypes of banjos and “hillbillies,” students will also come to see the Appalachian region itself as more diverse, both in terms of the geography and industries throughout the region, but also the inhabitants themselves. At the conclusion of this lesson, students should understand that Appalachian music, much like the Appalachian region itself, is a complex hybrid of people and places, far more diverse than most stereotypes from the region allow.

This resource is perfect for teachers who want to look at the beginnings of the Arab Uprisings in Tunisia and then Egypt in 2010-11. This lesson requires students to view videos, descriptions and articles to understand the significance of "Bread, Freedom and Social Justice" chanted during the Egyptian Uprising in 2011. It only takes a special look at Egypt's uprising from 2010-2020 and whether or not the three demands have been met and to what extent. 

The purpose of this resource is to showcase the treasures and philosophy of the National Humanities Center to facilitators of Senior Community learning in the UK.

Be Washington is a first-person interactive leadership experience. Come face to face with challenges that George Washington confronted as commander in chief or president in four key scenarios.The hosted game requires a main (host) screen and individual devices to play. The host can control the pace of the game by playing and pausing the scenario. Each individual device will have access to advisors and the ability to vote on the final decision. Votes for each specific session are compiled and displayed on the host screen, in addition to all-time results.
The single player game includes the complete scenario, advisors, and all-time results.
The advisers represented in the Be Washington experience are all based on real-life historical figures from the first president's cabinet, military leaders of the Revolutionary War, and more. Learn more about these members of George Washington's most trusted inner circle.

Benedict Arnold of Norwich was one of the great Continental army heroes of the American Revolution before committing treason and joining the British army.

This article is about looted artifacts out of Africa from the Benin empire to Europe. Some of the artifacts that were looted, were sculpted by Monday Aigbe's great grandfather.

One June night in 1754, Windham residents awoke to a dreadful sound, the source of which has inspired tall tales ever since.

Caleb Brewster used his knowledge of Long Island Sound to serve as a member of the Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War.

The Case For Stolen African Artifacts. This is an active lesson on the continuing case about stolen Africna artifacts that are being housed in many European museums. Students will participate in a presentation to the General Assembly of the UN, to make their case for either keeping the artifacts or returning them. 

Sister to two of the most famous figures of the 19th century - Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher - Catharine Esther Beecher achieved fame in her own right as an educator, reformer, and writer.

The outbreak of the Pequot War (1636-37) is best understood through an examination of the cultural, political, and economic changes that occurred after the arrival of the Dutch in 1611 and the English in the early 1630s.

Obsessive dedication transformed rubber into a viable commercial material and made the town of Naugatuck one of its leading manufacturing sites in the 1800s.

Best remembered for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, this Hartford author's larger legacy is a life dedicated to women's issues and social reform.

The Connecticut Charter, which provided the basis for Connecticut government until 1818, was secured because of Connecticut's realization after the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660 that the government of the colony lacked any legal foundation.

The Cold War was an ideological, and sometimes military, struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, these tensions were seen in Latin America, and revolutions, coups, and uprisings became commonplace throughout most of the latter half of the twentieth century.

This collection features five original Retro Report films, several lessons, and an interactive map.

On April 23, 1987, twenty-eight workers lost their lives during a collapse at the L'Ambiance Plaza construction site in Bridgeport.