The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers resources to assist teachers and students. This site offers a searchable database of over 60,000 primary source documents, American history quizzes, Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars (students see actual letters written - have the option of having the text read to them), information on creating digital historical documentaries with your students, featured documents (these change - sign up to an email list to be notified), and podcasts by historians. Also included are modules on major periods in American history. The modules give an overview of the times, lesson plans, quizes and activities as well as films, documents and historic images. Modules include:

• The Revolutionary War
• The Constitution
• The New Nation
• The Jeffersonian Era
• The Jacksonian Era
• Pre-Civil War Reform
• Slavery
• Westward Expansion
• The Coming of the Civil War
• The Civil War
• Reconstruction
• The Gilded Age
• The United States Becomes a World Power
• Progressivism
• Immigration
• World War I
• The 1920s
• The Great Depression
• World War II
• Postwar America
• The Tumultuous 1960s
• The Vietnam War
• America at the End of the 20th Century
• September 11th