The Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop web-based lesson plans for U.S. History and Government teachers. The lessons created as a part of this partnership have been placed on the NEH's EDSITEment web site, which features the best of the humanities on the web. The EDSITEment web site is a part of the Marco Polo consortium, a project of the Verizon Foundation.
This project was funded by a three-year, $375,000 cooperative agreement and a three-year, $186,900 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These activities are a part of the NEH's We the People initiative. The project was led by Dr. John Moser, Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University, and the lessons were developed from distinguished faculty and secondary school teachers from across the nation.
The following EDSITEment lesson plans have been developed as a part of this project:
- The American War for Independence written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—The War in the North, 1775-1778
- Lesson Two—The War in the South, 1778-1781
- Lesson Three—Ending the War, 1783
- The Constitutional Convention of 1787 written by Christopher Burkett and Patricia Dillon
- Lesson One—The Road to the Constitutional Convention
- Lesson Two—The Question of Representation at the 1787 Convention
- Lesson Three—Creating the Office of the Presidency
- The Federalist and Antifederalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic written by Christopher Burkett and Patricia Dillon
- Lesson One—Antifederalist Arguments Against "A Complete Consolidation"
- Lesson Two—The Federalist Defense of Diversity and "Extending the Sphere"
- Religion in 18th Century America written by Vincent Philip Muñoz and Maria Victoria Muñoz
- Lesson One—The First Great Awakening
- Lesson Two—Religion and the Argument for American Independence
- Lesson Three—Religion and the Fight for American Independence
- A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America written by Lucas Morel and Constance Murray
- Lesson One—An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis
- Lesson Two—Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
- Lesson Three—The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization Over Slavery
- Lesson Four—Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
- "Terrible Swift Sword": The American Civil War written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—On the Eve of War: North vs. South
- Lesson Two—The Battles of the Civil War
- Lesson Three—Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Politics
- "A Word Fitly Spoken": Abraham Lincoln on the American Union written by Lucas Morel and Constance Murray
- Lesson One—Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)—The Purpose of the American Union
- Lesson Two—The First Inaugural Address (1861)—Defending the American Union
- Lesson Three—The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union
- Lesson Four—The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
- The Battle Over Reconstruction written by Julie Ponzi and Mark Baker
- Lesson One—The Aftermath of War
- Lesson Two—The Politics of Reconstruction
- Lesson Three—The Aftermath of Reconstruction
- The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson written by David Krugler and Tucker Bacquet
- Lesson One—The Origins of "Wilsonianism"
- Lesson Two—"To Elect Good Men": Woodrow Wilson and Latin America
- Lesson Three—Wilson and American Entry into World War I
- Lesson Four—Fighting for Peace: The Fate of Wilson's Fourteen Points
- The Road to Pearl Harbor: The United States and East Asia, 1915-1941 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932
- Lesson Two—America and the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1933-1939
- Lesson Three—Japan's "Southern Advance" and the March Toward War, 1940-1941
- Lesson Four—The Failure of Diplomacy, September – December 1941
- The United States and Europe: From Neutrality to War, 1921-1941 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—Postwar Disillusionment and the Quest for Peace, 1921-1929
- Lesson Two—Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939
- Lesson Three—U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939-1940
- Lesson Four—The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists
- American Diplomacy in World War II written by Alonzo Hamby and Ben Trotter
- Lesson One—How "Grand" and "Allied" was the Grand Alliance?
- Lesson Two—How to Win a World War
- Lesson Three—Victory and the New Order in Europe
- Lesson Four—The New Order for "Greater East Asia"
- "The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force": The United States in World War II written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943
- Lesson Two—Turning the Tide in Europe, 1941-1944
- Lesson Three—Victory in Europe, 1944-1945
- Lesson Four—Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945
- The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
- Lesson Two—The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
- Lesson Three—The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949
- Witch Hunt or Red Menace?: Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Lesson One—Soviet Espionage in America
- Lesson Two—The House Un-American Activities Committee
- Lesson Three—The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
- "Police Action": The Korean War, 1950-1953 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- "The Missiles of October": The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 written by John Moser and Lori Hahn
- Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement written by Lucas Morel and Constance Murray
Other Lesson Plans from the Ashbrook Center:
- The Constitutional Convention as a Four Act Drama written by Gordon Lloyd and Natalie Bolton
- Christy's Signing of the Constitution of the United States
- Ratification of the Constitution of the United States
- Federalist 10: Democratic Republican Government vs. Pure Democratic Government
- Federalist 51: Protecting the Rights of the People?