In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including ...

We have organized our activities and lesson plans by topic and identified their corresponding programs. We noted if they work best as a pre-visit, post-visit activities, or stand-alone lesson plan.

History is not a passive subject. Historians actively search out and analyze primary sources in order to tell the stories of our past. Behind those streamlined narratives are hundreds of messy sources ...