Lesson Plans
Teaching with Historic Places regularly introduces new on-line lesson plans. The latest offerings include:

NEW! The Shields-Ethridge Farm: The End of a Way of Life
Investigate sharecropping as a way of life in upland Georgia during the early 20th century and examine the efforts of one farm owner to diversify as market fluctuation and urbanization threatened that life.


NEW! Ladd Field and the Lend-Lease Mission: Defending Alaska in WWII
Discover how a small town in a remote U.S. territory played a large role in defending the United States and its allies during World War II.


NEW! Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Where Man and Memory Intersect
Discover the power of place in honoring President Lincoln's origins and consider how the nation uses memorial structures and landscapes to express respect for its heroes and to celebrate anniversaries.


NEW! "The Honor of Your Company is Requested": Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball at the Patent Office
Attend President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball and explore how American citizens celebrate their leaders taking office.


NEW! "Comfortable Camps?" Archeology of the Confederate Guard Camp at the Florence Stockade
Learn about the life of the Confederate guards at the Florence Stockade Civil War prison camp and discover how archeology revealed much of this information.

Primary Sources Index
Looking for primary sources? Teaching with Historic Places offers an index of primary sources included in our online lesson plans. Organized by type of primary source--such as books; charts, graphs, and tables; facsimiles; government reports/documents; images; maps; newspapers/magazines; personal documents; political cartoons; etc.--the index makes it easy for teachers to find primary images and documents to use in the classroom. Many sources fall into more than one category, which also facilitates searching.

Youth Summits
Youth Summits prepare middle school and high school students to be active citizens and preservation stewards. By engaging students in on-site, real-world issues facing historic preservation, heritage tourism, public history, and conservation, these summits benefit not only the participating young people, but also educators, professionals, and community leaders.  

The Youth Summits section of the TwHP wesbite offers a step-by-step How-To Guide for people and institutions interested in organizing their own Youth Summit, resources for planning a summit, sample agendas, and other helpful information.

Field Studies in the Methods Course
TwHP's Teaching Teachers the Power of Place website includes a detailed "how to" on planning and conducting field studies. Unlike "field trips," "field studies" engage participants in active on-site investigation of historic places. Both explaining the intellectual basis and providing a step-by-step process, this guide will serve not only history and social studies methods professors, but also any educator who wants to enhance leanring during visits to historic sites