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As we begin the new year, we wanted to remind you of our Featured Resources site. Our Featured Resources site contains collections of free C-SPAN Classroom content organized by curriculum, topic or theme. Below you will find examples of some of the collections of resources found on the site.
- Campaign 2020
This site features video resources showcasing the 2020 presidential election. Topics include the presidential election process, current and historical examples of the process, videos of the candidates and issues being discussed during the campaign. - Constitutional Foundations and Principles of Government
Featuring resources on the founding documents and constitutional principles. - State History
This new site is a collection of state history resources for all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. These resources are organized alphabetically by state. - U.S. History- 1492-1789
Resources organized chronologically from 1492-1789. - U.S. History- 1789-1877
Resources organized chronologically from 1789-1877. - U.S. History- 1877-1945
Resources organized chronologically from 1877-1945. - U.S. History- 1945-Present
Resources organized chronologically from 1945-present. - 2018 AP U.S. Government Key Terms
A list of key terms with C-SPAN clips explaining or exemplifying the term. - 2018 AP U.S. Government and Politics Units
Resources organized by 2018 redesigned units and enduring understandings. - General Economics and AP Economics Key Terms
Resources relating to general economic principles, economic systems and AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics key terms. - World History
Content organized in reverse-chronological order by centuries and by theme. - Native American History
Resources relating to Native American history. - Comparative Government and AP Comparative Government Terms
Featuring resources with overviews of types of government and examples of how countries around the world implement these governments. - Geography and AP Human Geography
Geography resources organized by the five themes of geography and the seven units found in the AP Human Geography course.
Bell Ringers:
- Presidential Power and Nuclear Weapons (2:52)
- The 25th Amendment and the Reagan Assassination Attempt (2:47)
- Congressional and Presidential War Powers (6:03)
- History of Presidents Taping Conversations (4:41)
- Presidents and their First Year in Office (12:46)
- Designated Survivor (1:13)
- Bias in the Media (2:26)
- Direct Democracy, Populism and the Constitution (1:53)
- How North Korea Developed its Nuclear Weapons Program (1:30)
- Native American Citizenship (8:32)
- Role of the White House Press Secretary (2:54)
- The 25th Amendment and the Reagan Assassination Attempt (2:47)
- The Legacy of Chief Justice John Marshall (2:10)
- The Legacy of Women's Suffrage (6:07)
- The Use of Executive Orders and Regulation to Enact Policy (2:54)
- What is Sovereignty? (2:01)
- California History - Immigration, Economy, Land and Water Use (15:46)
- First Continental Congress (5:56)
- Frontier Life and Culture in the American West (8:48)
- Surveillance and Intelligence Collection (2:56)
- The History of Virginia's Capitol Building (23:23)
- The Wilmington Ten (5:51)
- What is a Lobbyist? (5:36)
- The Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Disasters (5:58)
- Technology Advances in World War I (4:33)
- Regulatory Agencies and Shrinking the Executive Branch (4:35)
- Pre-Revolutionary America (3:03)
- First Continental Congress (5:56)
- History of Presidential Pardons (2:30)
- Presidential Commutations (3:54)
- Federalism and Powers of the Congress (4:25)
- The American Dream (8:59)
- The Federal Budget and Difference Between an Increase, Freeze and Cut (2:58)
- The Sunni and Shiite Divide (4:17)
- "Unless They Be Equally Divided" - The Vice President as Tiebreaker (5 Clips)
Lesson Plans:
- What Role Should the Federal Government Play in Conservation?
- How Should the Issue of Gun Violence be Addressed in the United States?
- To What Extent Should the Federal Government Impose Limits on Immigration?
- Should Hate Speech Be Protected By the First Amendment?
- Are Sanctuary Cities Justified or Should Local Jurisdictions Assist Federal Immigration Enforcement Efforts?
- Should There be Term Limits for Members of Congress?
- What is "Fake News" and How Does It Impact Our Lives?
- To What Extent Should Presidential War Powers Be Limited by Congress and the War Powers Act?
- Presidential Pardons (11 Clips)
- The Televised Presidency (5 Clips)
- Checks and Balances (10 Clips)
- The Powers of the President (8 Clips)
- Presidential Roles (17 Clips)
- Reverency and the Presidency (7 Clips)
- President Washington's Farewell Address (4 Clips)
- What Makes a Great President? (5 Clips)
- Charles Darwin's Experiments (6 Clips)
- Congress' Power of Impeachment (9 Clips)
- Evaluating Historical Presidential Campaign Ads (15 Clips)
- Henry George: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (6 Clips)
- How Members of Congress use Social Media (1 Clip)
- Major Events of the Cold War (14 Clips)
- Oral Histories of the Holocaust (8 Clips)
- Political Polarization (7 Clips)
- Prohibition in the United States (8 Clips)
- Republican Tax Reform Plan and Process (9 Clips)
- Selective Service (5 Clips)
- Senate Committee Hearing on Social Media & Russian Interference (15 Clips)
- The Gilded Age (7 Clips)
- The Penny Press (2 Clips)
- The State of Modern News Media (7 Clips)
- The Federalist Papers (3 Video Clips)
- Is Twitter the New Fireside Chat? (5 Video Clips)
- The Powers of the President (8 Video Clips)
- The Powers of Congress (8 Video Clips)
- Introduction to the Principles of Democracy (7 Video Clips)
- Slavery (5 Video Clips)
Classroom Deliberations
Classroom Deliberations Website: http://c-spanclassroomdeliberations.org
C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations website provides teacher-generated lessons designed to engage students in debate about current issues. On the Deliberations website you will find handouts, current events, lesson plans and strategies that make it easy to engage students in the issues. Content for the Classroom Deliberations is created by C-SPAN Senior Fellows.
Recent Deliberations:
Classroom Deliberations Website: http://c-spanclassroomdeliberations.org
C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations website provides teacher-generated lessons designed to engage students in debate about current issues. On the Deliberations website you will find handouts, current events, lesson plans and strategies that make it easy to engage students in the issues. Content for the Classroom Deliberations is created by C-SPAN Senior Fellows.
Recent Deliberations:
- Should Presidential War Powers Be Limited by Congress? (9 Clips)
- How Should the Issue of Gun Violence be Addressed in the United States?
- Are Sanctuary Cities Justified or Should Local Jurisdictions Assist Federal Immigration Enforcement Efforts?
- Should There be Term Limits for Members of Congress?
- What is “Fake News” and How Does It Impact Our Lives?
- To What Extent Should Presidential War Powers Be Limited by Congress and the War Powers Act?
- To What Extent Should the Federal Government Impose Limits on Immigration?
- Should Hate Speech Be Protected By the First Amendment?
On This Day In History:
- April 01, 1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa (6 clips)
- April 03, 1948 - Marshall Plan (4 video clips)
- April 09, 1865 - Appomattox Court House & Lee's Surrender (5 video clips)
- April 15, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination (4 video clips)
- April 17, 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion (5 video clips)
- April 19, 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing (4 video clips)
- April 20, 2010 - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (6 video clips)
- August 24, 1814: British Troops Set Fire to the White House (3 Clips)
- August 28, 1963: March on Washington (3 Clips)
- August 29, 2005- Hurricane Katrina (10 Clips)
- September 1, 1939- Germany's Invasion of Poland (5 Clips)
- September 8, 1974: President Ford Pardon of Richard Nixon (4 Video Clips)
- September 11, 2001: 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (11 Clips)
- October 16, 1859: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (3 Clips)
- October 18, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis (6 Clips)
- October 19, 1781: The British Surrender at Yorktown (6 Clips)
- November 15, 1777: Continental Congress Adopts the Articles of Confederation (3 Clips)
- November 17, 1869: Suez Canal Opens (3 Clips)
- November 18, 1978: Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and the Jonestown Massacre (4 Clips)
- November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address (4 Clips)
- November 19, 1939: FDR Lays Cornerstone of First Presidential Library (6 Clips)
- November 19, 1942: The Soviet Counteroffensive during the Battle of Stalingrad (4 Clips)
- November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg Trials Begin (4 Clips)
- November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy - Life, Death, Legacy (7 Clips)
- November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species is Published (3 Clips)
- November 29, 1864: Sand Creek Massacre (3 Clips)
- December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (4 Clips)
- December 2, 1823: The Monroe Doctrine (3 Clips)
- December 2, 1970: The Creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (4 Clips)
- December 5, 1933: Ratification of the 21st Amendment (4 Clips)
- December 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor (8 Clips)
- JANUARY 24, 1848: California Gold Rush (6 Clips)
- JANUARY 27, 1967: Apollo 1 Disaster (3 Clips)
- JANUARY 28, 1986: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (4 Clips)
- JANUARY 30, 1968: The Tet Offensive (3 Clips)
- FEBRUARY 1, 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (5 Clips)
- FEBRUARY 1, 1960: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In (3 Clips)
- On This Day: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Life and Legacy (6 Video Clips)
- On This Day: Victory Over Japan Day (3 Clips)
- On This Day: Woodstock Music Festival (3 Clips)
- On This Day: Ratification of the 19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage (7 Clips)
- On This Day: National Park Service (4 Clips)
- On This Day: Hurricane Katrina (10 Clips)
Current Events:
- Deliberation: The Federal Government and Limits on Immigration (19 Clips)
- State of the U.S. Military (5:39)
- Presidential Efforts to Limit Government (7:26)
- The Future of DACA Program (6:22)
- U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts (6:26)
- U.S. House Approves Tax Reform Bill, 227-205 (2:45)
- President Trump Statement on Asia Trip (3:13)
- BELL RINGER: The History of the State of the Union
- Bell Ringer: Presidents and their First Year in Office (12:46)
- Bell Ringer: Criminal Prosecution and the Rule of Law (3:31)
- Bell Ringer: Federal Gas Tax & Funding Transportation Infrastructure (2:33)
- Bell Ringer: Congressional Leadership and Fundraising (5:12)
- Bell Ringer: The Historical Background of the Creation of Israel (2 Clips)
- Bell Ringer: How North Korea Developed its Nuclear Weapons Program (1:30)
- Bell Ringer: What is DACA? (3:57)
- Bell Ringer: The Size of the US Nuclear Arsenal and the START Agreement (2:46)
- LESSON IDEA: State of the Union Address
- Lesson Plan: How Are Tax Dollars Spent on Federal Social Programs?
- Lesson Plan: Republican Tax Reform Plan and Process (11 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: 2017-2018 Supreme Court Oral Arguments (7:40)
- Lesson Plan: The History of Federal Entitlement Programs in the U.S. (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Gun Control in Response to the Las Vegas Mass Shooting (9 Video Clips
- Lesson Plan: Should Federal Lands be Open to Development? (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Removal of Confederate Statues (8 Clips)
- VIDEO: 2018 State of the Union Speech (01:23:13)
- VIDEO: Democratic Response to the State of the Union Address (13:11)
- Video Clip: The House and Senate Vote to Reopen the Government (5:16)
- Video Clip: What is a Partial Government Shutdown? (4:41)
- Video Clip: The President & Congressional Leaders Discuss Immigration (5:47)
- Video Clip: President Trump on DACA Legislation (2:34)
- Video Clip: The 27th Amendment (1:27)
- Video Clip: Senator Flake (R-AZ) on Freedom of the Press (3:33)
- Video Clip: Strategies to Address North Korea (5:26)
- Video Clip: Election Tiebreaker for Virginia House Seat (8:59)
- Video Clip: Congressional Efforts on Immigration and the Border Wall (4:42)
- Video Clip: 2018 Midterm Elections (7:29)
- Video Clip: The Causes of the Recent Iranian Protests (5:05)
- Video Clip: Congress Avoids Government Shutdown (3:44)
- Video Clip: The Supreme Court Hears the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case (6:04)
- Video Clip: Supreme Court Term Preview (3:55)
- Video Clip: President Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel (2:46)
- Video Clip: North Korean Missile Threat and Nuclear Weapons Program (5:01)
- Video Clip: Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) on Responses to North Korea (2:40)
- Video Clip: The Failure to Reauthorize CHIP (3:08)
- Video Clip: Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty (5:10)
- Video Clip: Taxes and the Nation's Debt (4:33)
- Video Clip: The Tax Bill Goes to Conference Committee (3:05)
- Video Clip: The Failure to Reauthorize CHIP (3:08)
- Video Clip: Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty (5:10)
- Video Clip: Power Restoration in Puerto Rico (3:19)
- Video Clip: JFK Assassination Documents (5:42)
- Video Clip: Sen. Flake Speaks Out Against President Trump (4:02)
- Video Clip: Regulating Political Ads on Social Media (5:01)
- Video Clip: Sen. McCain on the Legacies of the Vietnam War (3:01)
- Video Clip: Criminal Justice Reform (6:12)
- Video Clip: U.S. Presence in Niger (4:13)
- Video Clip: Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico (5:25)
- Video Clip: Firearms Legislation in Response to the Las Vegas Mass Shooting(6:13)
- Video Clip: Violent Crime in the U.S. (6:23)
- Video Clip: Presidential Address on Iran Nuclear Agreement (2:20)
- Video Clip: Republican Tax Reform Plan and the Federal Budget (3:24)
- Video Clip: Equifax Data Breach (5:29)
- Video Clip: Total Solar Eclipse (5:44)
- Video Clip: NFL Protests: Government and Private First Amendment Protections(5:51)
- Video Clip: President Trump and Dem. Leaders Strike Debt Limit Deal (2:22)
- Video Clip: Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio (3:58)
- Video Clip: Hurricane Harvey (1:29)
- Video Clip: Who Owns Federal Debt? (1:34)
- Video Clip: President Trump on U.S. Policy in Afghanistan (3:52)
- Video Clip: Federal Aid for Victims of Hurricane Harvey (2:38)
- Video Clip: North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test (5:32)
- Video Clip: White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (5:08)
- Video Clip: Tensions with North Korea (5:08)
- Video Clip: Trump Administration Review of Federal Land and National Monuments (4:44)
- Video Clip: What Should Be Done About Confederate Statues? (3:58)
- Video Clip: Parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Current North Korea Situation (4:42)
- Video Clip: President Trump Phases out DACA (7:21)
- Video Clip: What is DACA? (3:57)
- Video Clip: Minimum Wage Debate (5:37)
- Video Clip: President Trump Remarks on Tax Reform (5:02)
- Video Clip: National Flood Insurance Program (3:28)
- Video Clip: John Kelly Replaces Reince Priebus as WH Chief of Staff (6:36)
- Video Clip: Chief of Staff John Kelly Fires Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci (2:09)
- Video Clip: Senate GOP Health Care Repeal Effort Fails (3:11)
- Video Clip: Senator John McCain Addresses Colleagues (3:07)
- Video Clip: Presidential Leadership and Qualities (2:00)
- Video Clip: Future of NAFTA (8:24)
- Video Clip: North Korea's Nuclear Threats (5:47)
- Video Clip: North Korean Missile Threat and Nuclear Weapons Program (5:01)
Black History Month
- Bell Ringer: The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage (6:27)
- Bell Ringer: The Domestic Slave Trade (3:35)
- Bell Ringer: The Nat Turner Rebellion (5:50)
- Bell Ringer: Solomon Northup: 12 Years a Slave (8:24)
- Bell Ringer: Harriet Tubman during the Civil War (2:33)
- Bell Ringer: The Freedman's Bureau (6:45)
- Bell Ringer: African Americans in WWI (10:03)
- Bell Ringer: W E B Du Bois (5:14)
- Bell Ringer: Segregated Societies (5:06)
- Bell Ringer: The Tuskegee Airmen (6:54)
- Bell Ringer: Important Figures in the Early Fight for Civil Rights (4:21)
- Bell Ringer: Jackie Robinson's Impact on the Civil Rights Movement (1:57)
- Bell Ringer: Remembering Brown v Board of Education (3:29)
- Bell Ringer: The 1963 March on Washington (11:59)
- Bell Ringer: The Life and Legacy of Fred Shuttlesworth (6:59)
- Bell Ringer: Photographs of the Black Panther Party (6:45)
- Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v Sandford (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Underground Railroad (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Langston Hughes (5 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Booker T. Washington (4 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: A Historical Overview of Segregation (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Brown v Board of Education (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The 1967 Detroit Riots (8 Clips)
U.S. History:
- Bell Ringer: French Exploration of South Dakota (3:22)
- Bell Ringer: Lewis and Clark Expedition in South Dakota (7:34)
- Bell Ringer: Principles and Foundations of the U.S. Government (2:05)
- Bell Ringer: The Northwest Territory (4:12)
- Bell Ringer: Texas Independence and the 1836 Compromise (2:05)
- Bell Ringer: The Panic of 1837 (4:48)
- Bell Ringer: The Compromise of 1850 (6:18)
- Bell Ringer: Leisure Time in Antebellum South (10:01)
- Bell Ringer: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas (4:05)
- Bell Ringer: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (3:53)
- Bell Ringer: Second Confiscation Act (0:43)
- Bell Ringer: Industrial Revolution and Communications Revolution (5:42)
- Bell Ringer: The Panic of 1873 (3:27)
- Bell Ringer: Lifestyles of the Wealthy during the Gilded Age (1:33)
- Bell Ringer: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine (1:46)
- Bell Ringer: Indian Boarding Schools and Assimilation (2:51)
- Bell Ringer: Triangle Factory Fire Leads to Unionism in America (1:38)
- Bell Ringer: Chinese Expulsion and Reconciliation (6:36)
- Bell Ringer: History of Newspaper Boys (10:29)
- Bell Ringer: Nixon and the Vietnam War (2:44)
- Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the American Revolution (10 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Revolutionary War (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Civil War Era and the Constitution (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Great Migration (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Louisiana Purchase (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Mexican-American War (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Major Events Leading to the Civil War (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Congress and the Antebellum South (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Reconstruction Era (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Penny Press (2 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Gilded Age (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Spanish-American War (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: World War I (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Prohibition in the United States (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Great Depression (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The New Deal (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: World War II (10 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (10 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Korean War (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Red Scare and McCarthyism (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Counterculture of the 1950s-1960s (6 Clips)
- Lesson: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Videos)
- Lesson Plan: The Vietnam War (10 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The 1967 Detroit Riots (8 Clips)
- Video Clip: The War of 1812 (9 Clips)
- Video Clip: Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast (4 Clips)
- Video Clip: History of the Ku Klux Klan (7:34)
- Video Clip: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail (7 Clips)
- Video Clip: Congressional Earmarks and Pork Barrel Spending (8 Clips)
Economics and Financial Literacy:
- Video Clip: The Republican Tax Reform Plan and the Federal Budget (3:24)
- Video Clip: Minimum Wage Debate (5:37)
- Video Clip: National Debt Passes $20 Trillion (5:29)
- Video Clip: Who Owns Federal Debt? (1:34)
- Bell Ringer: Mortgage Interest Deduction (3:09)
- Bell Ringer: Office of Management and Budget and the Budget Process (3:53)
- Bell Ringer: Static Scoring vs Dynamic Scoring (7:22)
- Bell Ringer: Tax Codes Around the World (4:54)
- Bell Ringer: The Debt Ceiling (1:34)
- Bell Ringer: Differences Between a Budget Increase, Freeze and Cut (2:58)
- Bell Ringer: The Small Business Administration and Entrepreneurship (5:05)
- Bell Ringer: Universal Basic Income (7:20)
- Lesson Plan: Financial Literacy (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Goals and Tools of the Federal Reserve (2 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Economists (3 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Consumer Price Index and Inflation (1 Clip)
- Lesson Plan: Is GDP an Accurate Measure of U.S. Economic Health? (3 Clips)
Media Literacy and Modern Forms of Media:
- Video Clip: The Internet and the First Amendment (7:42)
- Video Clip: How the Press Covers President Trump's Tweets (3:15)
- Video Clip: Political Impact of Late-Night Comedy (8:21)
- Video Clip: Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (6:25)
- Bell Ringer: Factchecking in Journalism (2:07)
- Bell Ringer: Smear Tactics and Public Opinion (2:39)
- Bell Ringer: The Effect of More Information on News Media (1:35)
- Lesson Plan: The Penny Press (2 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Senate Committee Hearing on Social Media & Russian Interference (15 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: How Members of Congress use Social Media (3:58)
- Lesson Plan: The State of Modern News Media (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Reverency and the Presidency (7 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Transparency in Government (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Is Twitter the New Fireside Chat? (5 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The New News - What's Newsworthy? (8 Clips)
- Deliberation: What is "Fake News" and How Does It Impact Our Lives? (8 Clips)
Government and Politics:
- Bell Ringer: The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (3:35)
- Bell Ringer: The Dept. of Veterans Affairs (4:26)
- Bell Ringer: Office of Management and Budget and the Budget Process (3:53)
- Bell Ringer: The Small Business Administration and Entrepreneurship (5:05)
- Bell Ringer: The Dept. of Agriculture (5:33)
- Bell Ringer: Food Stamp Program (2:17)
- Video Clip: Russian-linked Facebook Ads and the 2016 Election (5:46)
- Video Clip: Renewed Senate Efforts to Replace the Affordable Care Act (4:16)
- Video Clip: President Trump's First U.N. Speech (7:37)
- Video Clip: National Debt Passes $20 Trillion (5:29)
- Video Clip: President's Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons (6:20)
Congressional Committees - Investigations and Oversight:
- Lesson Plan: The Powers of Congress (8 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Checks and Balances (10 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Congressional Committees 101 (3 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Senate Committee Hearing on Social Media & Russian Interference (15 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: History of Congressional Select Committees (5:47)
- Lesson Plan: Congressional Investigations (2 Video Clips)
- On This Day: Teapot Dome Scandal (2 Video Clips)
- On This Day: McCarthyism and the Red Scare (5 Video Clips)
- On This Day: Watergate (9 Video Clips)
- Video Clip: The Church Committee (8:51)
- On This Day: Iran-Contra Affair (6 Video Clips)
- On This Day: Whitewater (8 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: Special Counsel Rules and History (7:18)
- Video Clip: Special Counsel Appointed for Russia Investigation (2:35)
- Video Clip: Paul Manafort Surrenders to FBI in Russia Probe (6:01)
- Video Clip: Russia's Use of Social Media (3:07)
- Video Clip: House Republican Tax Reform Bill (6:15)
- Video Clip: Speaker Ryan on the Tax Reform Bill (2:08)
- Video Clip: President Trump on Tax Reform Bill (3:52)
- Video Clip: The 2018 Federal Budget and Tax Reform (5:36)
Foundations of U.S. Government
- Bell Ringer: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention (8:26)
- Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention (3:21)
- Bell Ringer: Three-Fifths Compromise and the Constitutional Convention (4:14)
- Bell Ringer: The History of Dissent in America (5:32)
- Bell Ringer: Philadelphia's Congress Hall (2:39)
- Bell Ringer: The Significance of McCulloch v. Maryland (3:05)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Elena Kagan on Constitutional Interpretation (4:45)
- Bell Ringer: The Articles of Confederation: Overview and Power (3:01)
- Bell Ringer: The Articles of Confederation and Foreign Policy (3:37)
- Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin: His Ideas and Contributions
- Bell Ringer: Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence
- Bell Ringer: We the People
- Bell Ringer: Philosopher John Locke
- Bell Ringer: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Bell Ringer: Philosophers Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
- Bell Ringer: Thomas Paine's Common Sense
- Lesson Plan: Introduction to the Principles of Democracy
- Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the American Revolution
- Lesson Plan: The Revolutionary War
- Lesson Plan: Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison
- Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention
- Lesson Plan: Federalist 10 (3 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Federalist 51 (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Federalist 78 (1 Clip)
- Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Significance of Chief Justice John Marshall (6 Clips)
- Video Clip: Origins for the idea of Separation of Powers (:58)
- Video Clip: The Evolution of the Presidential Office (4:44)
Individual Rights and Responsibilities:
- Bell Ringer: Due Process Protections and Imprisonment (3:18)
- Bell Ringer: Eminent Domain and Property Rights (3:44)
- Bell Ringer: Hateful Speech and First Amendment Protections (1:21)
- Bell Ringer: President Obama on Voting (3:51)
- Bell Ringer: Government and Religion - Engel v Vitale and Abington v Schempp (4:09)
- Bell Ringer: Affirmative Action and College Admissions (5:02)
- Bell Ringer: Native American Citizenship (8:32)
- Bell Ringer: The 14th Amendment and Incorporation (1:53)
- Deliberation: How Should the Issue of Gun Violence be Addressed in the United States? (16 Clips)
- Deliberation: Should the Death Penalty Continue to be Used in the United States? (9 Clips)
- Deliberation: Should Hate Speech Be Protected By the First Amendment? (14 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Innovation Meets the Constitution, Fourth Amendment Edition (6:45)
- Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement (15 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Privacy and the Press (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Expansion of Voting in the United States (10 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Right to an Attorney and the Public Defender System (6 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (9 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: NFL Protests: Difference between Government and Private First Amendment Protections (2:20)
- Video Clip: The Internet and the First Amendment (7:42)
Supreme Court
- Bell Ringer: Brown v. Board of Education (5:42)
- Bell Ringer: Tinker v. Des Moines (8:38)
- Bell Ringer: Korematsu v. United States (7:20)
- Bell Ringer: Due Process Protections and Imprisonment (3:18)
- Bell Ringer: The Supremacy Clause (2 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: Direct Democracy, Populism and the Constitution (1:58)
- Bell Ringer: Static Scoring vs Dynamic Scoring (7:22)
- Lesson Plan: 2017-2018 Supreme Court Oral Arguments (4 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Right to an Attorney and the Public Defender System (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Checks and Balances (10 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Federalism in the United States (8 Video Clips)
- Video Clip: Pew Research - Partisan Divide Grows Wider (3:44)
- Video Clip: Supreme Court Term Preview (3:55)
- Bell Ringer: The Federal Court System (6:38)
- Bell Ringer: The Process of Deciding Supreme Court Cases (4:37)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Sotomayor on Supreme Court Decisions (1:39)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Kagan on Constitutional Interpretation (4:45)
- Bell Ringer: Judicial Interpretation and Political Ideology (6:33)
- Lesson Plan: Constitutional Role of the Federal Court System (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Researching a Supreme Court Justice (4 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: The Early Supreme Court (5:00)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Ginsburg on the Expansion of Equal Protection (1:44)
- Lesson Plan: The Significance of Chief Justice John Marshall (6 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: Buckley v. Valeo (1:46)
- Bell Ringer: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2:01)
- Lesson Plan: Marbury v. Madison (4 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v. Sandford (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Slaughterhouse Cases (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Lochner v. New York (5 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Schenck v. United States (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Korematsu v. United States (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Mapp v. Ohio (8 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Baker v. Carr (8 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Miranda v. Arizona (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Roe v. Wade (8 Video Clips)
- Website: https://www.c-span.org/30years/
- YouTube Promo Video: C-SPAN Video Library - 30 Years of History (0:54)
Beginning on February 26, C-SPAN will begin airing Landmark Cases Season 2. The series will air on Mondays at 9 PM. This 12-part series delves into cases that represent some of the tipping points in our nation's story and our evolving understanding of rights in America. For updated information on the cases, visit the Landmark Cases website.
Cases featured in Season 2 include:
Want your students to view our Lessons and Bell Ringers at home or on their individual devices? Consider creating a generic class account, or use the following shared log-in credentials:
Username: students
Password: C-SPANCLASSROOM
The Process and Structure of the Supreme Court:
Cases featured in Season 2 include:
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819 )
- Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
- Katz v. United States (1967)
- Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
- New York Times v. United States (Pentagon Papers Case) (1971)
- Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
- Regents of Univ. Cal v. Bakke (1978)
Want your students to view our Lessons and Bell Ringers at home or on their individual devices? Consider creating a generic class account, or use the following shared log-in credentials:
Username: students
Password: C-SPANCLASSROOM
The Process and Structure of the Supreme Court:
- Bell Ringer: The Federal Court System (6:38)
- Bell Ringer: The Process of Deciding Supreme Court Cases (4:37)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Sotomayor on Supreme Court Decisions (1:39)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Kagan on Constitutional Interpretation (4:45)
- Bell Ringer: Judicial Interpretation and Political Ideology (6:33)
- Lesson Plan: Constitutional Role of the Federal Court System (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Researching a Supreme Court Justice (4 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Marbury v. Madison (4 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Dred Scott v. Sandford (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Slaughterhouse Cases (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Lochner v. New York (5 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Schenck v. U.S (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Korematsu v. United States (6 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Brown v. Board of Education (9 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Mapp v. Ohio (8 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Baker v. Carr (8 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Miranda v. Arizona (7 Video Clips)
- Lesson Plan: Roe v. Wade (8 Video Clips)
U.S. Constitution
Constitution Clips
Make the Constitution come alive with video clip examples of the Constitution in action. Click on any text link or image link to view video clips correlating to their respective section of the U.S. Constitution.
Constitution Clips
Make the Constitution come alive with video clip examples of the Constitution in action. Click on any text link or image link to view video clips correlating to their respective section of the U.S. Constitution.
- Constitution Clips (152 Video Clips)
- Bell Ringer: Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention (3:20)
- Bell Ringer: Dissenters at the Constitutional Convention (4:58)
- Bell Ringer: Justice Elena Kagan on Constitutional Interpretation (4:45)
- Bell Ringer: NJ and VA Plans and the Constitutional Convention (4:12)
- Bell Ringer: The Bill of Rights (7:01)
- Bell Ringer: The Living Constitution vs Originalism (4:01)
- Bell Ringer: The Process of Amending the Constitution (3:56)
- Bell Ringer: Three-Fifths Compromise and the Constitutional Convention (4:14)
- Bell Ringer: U.S. Constitution Vignette (17:46)
- Bell Ringer: We the People (2:18)
- Lesson Plan: The Constitutional Convention (8 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Federalist Papers (3 Clips)
- Lesson Plan: The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (8 Clips)
- Video Clip: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights (4:38)
Webinars for Professional Development
Is your department or district interested in learning more about how to utilize C-SPAN Classroom's free teacher resources? If so, we are offering free live webinars through Google Hangouts for your staff or department. We can help you navigate our current C-SPAN Classroom content including short Current Events videos, Lesson Plans and Bell Ringers, On This Day in History Events, Constitution Clips and Classroom Deliberations.Whether you are an experienced teacher or new to the profession, you are certain to find something to support your curriculum and enhance your instruction. If you are interested in learning more, please contact us at educate@c-span.org.
Is your department or district interested in learning more about how to utilize C-SPAN Classroom's free teacher resources? If so, we are offering free live webinars through Google Hangouts for your staff or department. We can help you navigate our current C-SPAN Classroom content including short Current Events videos, Lesson Plans and Bell Ringers, On This Day in History Events, Constitution Clips and Classroom Deliberations.Whether you are an experienced teacher or new to the profession, you are certain to find something to support your curriculum and enhance your instruction. If you are interested in learning more, please contact us at educate@c-span.org.
Order your FREE American Presidents Timeline Poster!
Our free American Presidents Timeline poster is available for order. New orders received by this Thursday, September 28 will be processed and shipped by October 6.This colorful 6' long poster details the lives and public service careers of every president, plus key historical events, Supreme Court cases, Constitutional Amendments, and technology milestones throughout history.
To reserve yours, simply visit our Special Offers page, log-in, and click on "Get This Offer." The poster is FREE of charge to C-SPAN Classroom members (* limit of one poster per member and only available to members residing in the U.S. and territories).
Already ordered a copy earlier in the spring but never received it? Simply email us at educate@c-span.org with your preferred postal information and we'll get another one in the mail.
Our free American Presidents Timeline poster is available for order. New orders received by this Thursday, September 28 will be processed and shipped by October 6.This colorful 6' long poster details the lives and public service careers of every president, plus key historical events, Supreme Court cases, Constitutional Amendments, and technology milestones throughout history.
To reserve yours, simply visit our Special Offers page, log-in, and click on "Get This Offer." The poster is FREE of charge to C-SPAN Classroom members (* limit of one poster per member and only available to members residing in the U.S. and territories).
Already ordered a copy earlier in the spring but never received it? Simply email us at educate@c-span.org with your preferred postal information and we'll get another one in the mail.
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