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National Endowment for the Humanities Constitution Day Portal

This website from EDSITEment and the National Endowment for the Humanities provides documents, background essays, and a bibliography to help educators....

Constitution Day Feature

This special feature from EDSITEment provides information and lessons about America's principle founding document, the Constitution.....

America's Voting Patchwork

Because the Constitution gives states the job of running elections, voting in the United States has developed into a patchwork of manual, mechanical, and....

Bill of Rights Day is observed.

The Bill of Rights was ratified by three-fourths of the newly formed United States in 1791 to ensure individual rights that were not addressed in the United....

Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 5 - Service

In this section of "A More Perfect Union," an online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will learn....

Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance

Most students in American classrooms know the words to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. The words are a kind of automatic language. We say them easily—perhaps....

Four Freedoms for the Fourth

This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to freedom, and presents information and activities about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's concept of....

Presidential Inaugurations: A Capital Parade on a Cold Winter's Day

This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to U.S. presidential inaugurations, and presents information about and discussion questions regarding....

The Presidential Campaign Trail

Presidential campaigns, inaugurations and the expansion of voting rights are the topics covered in this section of the online exhibition "The American....

July Calendar

This EDSITEment calendar is a collection of peer-reviewed Web sites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering July holidays and special events. Click "Display....


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