Students will read two accounts of John Smith's meeting with Powhattan and evalute which one is likely to be more accurate based upon the reliability of the sources.

Students will be able to corroborate multiple primary sources to draw conclusions about how the leaders of the American Revolution viewed Shays' Rebellion.

How was the foundation of today's representative democracy established in early colonial America? Young scholars will be able to source three documents and corroborate evidence to draw conclusions about the development of democratic...

Based on sourcing, students will determine which of the two pieces of historical evidence depicting the same event, the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis and the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, is the most...

Using primary sources and contextualizing, this lesson attempts to answer the question "Did the ideals of the American Revolution affect the condition of enslaved people?"

Using primary source material, students will analyze how foreign policy decisions affect the public's opinion of U.S. Presidents.

This is the full text of Mary Shelley's futurist novel The Last Man. Set in the twenty-first century, the novel revolves around six characters whose lives, over time and continents, are among the supposedly final generation of humans on...

This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."

Full text of an 1824 essay attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries."

Excerpts from four different letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Text of "The Mortal Immortal" written by Mary Shelley.

A critical look at Mary Shelly's "The Last Man" and the idea (widely used in writing of that time) of the last man on earth.

In order to use this source to assess students' historical thinking skills, students should understand the history of industrialization and the working conditions typical of late nineteenth-century factories. Students will analyze...