NaturalRightsandConstitutionsResources

(For a bibliography of book resources about the New Republic click [|here])
 * Website Suggestions **

**National Constitution Center, Interactive Constitution & Constitution Timeline** [] [] Get an overview of any article or amendment, search the United States Constitution by keyword or topic, discover how the Constitution relates to over 300 indexed topics from school prayer to civil rights, and search the text of the Constitution by Supreme Court decisions.
 * The Constitution **

[] Provides an introduction to the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program.
 * We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution**

[] This website was designed to give students and teachers the ability to electronically access portions of the //We the People// student text, and to provide links to primary sources, Supreme Court cases, multimedia, and helpful websites related to the content of the student and teacher's editions.
 * We the People: High School Textbook Companion Website**

[] This module includes an introduction with background information about the Constitution, links to websites, books, and videos and suggested lesson plans.
 * Digital History: Learn about the Constitution**

[] Constitutional issues come to life in this Emmy Award-winning series. Key political, legal, and media professionals engage in spontaneous and heated debates on controversial issues such as campaign spending, the right to die, school prayer, and immigration reform. This series will deepen understanding of the life and power of this enduring document and its impact on history and current affairs, while bringing biases and misconceptions to light.
 * The Constitution: That Delicate Balance**

[] This page of the Avalon Project website at Yale University contains links to a wide variety of transcripts of primary sources relating to the creation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
 * The American Constitution – A Documentary Record **

[] This page of the Library of Congress website compiles links to digitized primary sources and online exhibits relating to the U.S. Constitution.
 * Primary Documents in American History: The U.S. Constitution**

[] Hailed as "the //Oxford English Dictionary// of American constitutional history," this is the online edition of //The Founders' Constitution// an anthology on the U.S. Constitution published by the University of Chicago Press. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.
 * The Founders’ Constitution**

**Using Student Related Issues to Study the Supreme Court, Pearson eTeach** [] This site provides detailed instructional strategies for teaching Supreme Court cases in the classroom. Approaches include: a case study cartoon strip, a case study outline, case study collage, case study group discussion, and a role play.
 * The Supreme Court **

[] This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. The "Resources" section features basic building blocks such as background summaries and excerpts of opinions that can be used in multiple ways. The "Activities" section contains a range of short activities and in-depth lessons that can be completed with students.
 * Landmark Supreme Court Cases**

[|http://www.learner.org/workshops/civics/#] //Making Civics Real// is a video workshop for high school civics teachers. It includes eight one-hour video programs, a print guide to the workshop activities, and an accompanying Web site. Each of the eight programs presents authentic teachers in diverse school settings modeling constructivist teaching strategies.
 * Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers**

**Africans in America, Resource Bank for the Colonial Era, the Revolution, and the Constitution** [] Access biographies, historical documents, historians’ interpretations as related to slavery and the struggle for freedom.
 * Slavery in Massachusetts **

[] This online exhibit from the Massachusetts Historical Society includes a chronological essay broken up by topics including: the Lives of Individual African Americans, Revolutionary Participation, the Struggle for Freedom, and the Legal End of Slavery in Massachusetts. Each essay includes links to historical documents and artifacts.
 * African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society**

[] This website contains a one minute audio spot and then the background history on the first slaves arriving in Massachusetts.
 * Mass Moments**

[] [] This site contains information on the history of slavery in Massachusetts. This site also has links to the history of slavery in the other states of the North East. The second link is found on the same website and contains the information about the emancipation in Massachusetts.
 * Slavery in the North**

[] The Legal Rights and Government section of this site highlights the story of Mum Bett. The overall site presents information on the presence of slavery in the beginning of America all the way through to 1865. This site contains a timeline, resources, and interactive activities.
 * Slavery and the Making of America**

[] The site contains the history of African Americans in America from slavery to today. There are many primary source documents from the slavery period.
 * African American Odyssey, Library of Congress**

**History: The Big H** [] Access a viewer’s guide and video clip to //History: The Big H//, a production of the American Social Media Project of George Mason University. This 1987 film features Private-eye Clio Malarkey as a detective investigating “how things got to be the way they are” regarding the study of U.S. history.
 * Other **