The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
Inspired by Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s famous words and life story, the Seat at the Table Project is a collaborative civic art and education project that encourages students to reflect on their own civics identity and agency as they consider bringing their own seat to the table of civic life. The lesson plan, resources, and companion digital exhibit guide teachers and student through participating the project.

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The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

This resource probes some of the complex issues arising from the history of Japanese incarceration during World War II and invites students to explore difficult questions about national identity, institutional racism, and the boundaries of US citizenship.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This lesson is designed to help students develop the skills and understanding to engage in civic dialogue across differences. Students will practice empathy through telling each other’s stories.

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Mikva Challenge

Students will explore how the relationship between the expansion of slavery and sectional debates about the nature of the Union. In doing so they will examine the overlap between historical events and constitutional principles.

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Bill of Rights Institute

Civil liberties are the basic individual rights of all citizens, as expressed in the Constitution and (especially) the Bill of Rights, and reinforced by the 14th Amendment.

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National Constitution Center

While the Reconstruction Amendments were an important step in ensuring equal rights for all people regardless of race, racial injustices throughout the United States continued into the late 19th and 20th centuries, leading to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and the passages of Supreme Court decisions and legislation, including Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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National Constitution Center

A curated collection of documents, documents-based resources and programs, lesson plans, and discussion questions related to the Civil Rights Movements of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Intended for teachers who are eager to get started using original documents, but are unsure of where to start.

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Ashbrook/TeachingAmericanHistory

In the years between 1764 and 1776, America truly became a nation: where before America had been a cluster of competing British colonies—with differing origins, goals, and policies—by 1776 colonists had forged a separate identity flexible enough to support not just revolution but nation building. By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents and personal correspondence from the MHS collection, students can immerse themselves in the past and discover the fears, friction and turmoil that shaped these tumultuous times.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

Uncover the tools to hold constitutional conversations and civil dialogue.

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National Constitution Center

FIRE's First Amendment Curriculum guides students in learning why their free speech rights are so valuable, how they are essential to learning and to democracy, and about their proven history in securing justice and fairness for disempowered and marginalized populations. Centered in social and emotional learning, these lessons demonstrate how basic rights can be threatened and illustrate ways to protect them.

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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

The form of government established by the Constitution includes three key ideas: popular sovereignty, natural rights, and rule of law.

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National Constitution Center

This unit of lessons and tools examines the purpose, forms, and limitations on government.

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iCivics, Inc.
