The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: City & Town. It looks at the divide between country and city, and the ongoing growth of cities that became evident in the 1920 census. Includes a collection of commentaries, and selected pieces from authors.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Black & White. Even as racial pride advanced in the modern world, racial hatred escalated to new extremes. Here we explore the black-white division through commentary, political cartoons, visual art, and musical drama.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Labor & Capital. Includes reading selections that present opinions about workers, employers, and unions. Also has a collection of thirteen political cartoons for students to analyze.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Factory. Presents art by Charles Sheeler and films from the Ford Motor Company in an examination of the Ford auto assembly plant on the Rouge River near Detroit.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern City. A collection of writings, commentaries, and newsreels from the 1920s on what made a city modern.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern Faith. In its myriad forms, the search for "modern faith" in the Twenties reflected two concurrent drives - the need to affirm human goodness, hope, and salvation after the apocalyptic world war, and the struggle to accommodate modernity with traditional and revered belief systems. Presents a collection of commentaries on this topic from 1919-1929.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Native & Foreign. It looks at immigration in the 1920s.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: "Age of Prosperity." An overview of the 1920s decade's perspective on itself, as an "age of prosperity." Was the nation's economic engine a charged dynamo or a short-fused bomb? Presents a collection of commentaries and political cartoons from the 1920s.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Business. Looks at how 'Business' was a critical element of America's economic success. Presents commentaries and a literary excerpt.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Crash. Here we examine commentary and political cartoons that illustrate the pivotal moment in American history when the stock market crashed in 1929.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards historical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Labor Union. In the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor, struggling to affirm a moderate stance in the trade union movement, moved to defend itself against mounting charges of disloyalty and radicalism. Presents documents and film from the AFL.

Collection of primary resources includes historical documents, film, literary texts, and works of art with notes and discussion questions on the conflict and divisions characterizing the 1920s.

Primary resource material on the way innovatons and machines have modernized and changed America in the 1920s and beyond.

Primary resources from 1920s period offers a sense of cultural, social, political and economic thought during that time period. Includes notes, questions for discussion, and links to supplemental material.

Collection of six sections with primary resource material on the prosperity achieved during the 1920s explores consumerism, labor, and business. Includes notes, discussion questions and links to supplemental sources.

A collection of primary source material from the modern age, explores the 1920s and how it relates to today. Section includes introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links to related resources.

Lesson on citizen leadership explores the point of view of John Adams on essential qualities of leadership and a new nation. Lesson content includes background, text analysis and Close Reading questions, vocabularyand teacher's notes. Student and teacher versions.

Lesson from the National Humanities Center explores the doubts, concerns, and misgivings surrounding the development of the Bill of Rights. Primary or secondary sources, text analysis and Close reading strategies, background notes, and vocabulary section.

Seven sections of primary resource materials with introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links on the questions, discussion and debate over the U.S. Constitution.

Primary source material, introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links focussing on the tumultuous times between 1763 and 1775 preceding the American Revolution.