The First Great Awakening
Students will explain the characteristics of religious belief associated with the First Great Awakening  Identify and discuss the ideas of Jonathan Edwards, one of the leading preachers associated with the First Great Awakening  and discuss how colonial Americans perceived the First Great Awakening and how it affected the lives of both colonial Americans and Native Americans

The Great Awakening Lesson Plan: African-American Churches and Abolition

Interracial "Harmony" and the Great Awakening
Students will be introduced to two episodes in 19th century American history, around the time of the Great Awakening, that show glimpses of some positive and negative consequences of interracial interaction in a religious context. The students will examine primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection to then be able to write a "sermon" from the perspective of a southern itinerant preacher during the Great Awakening arguing for or against religion as a cure for the social ill of racism and slavery.

The Joseph Bellamy House.
This lesson plan will help students gain a deeper understanding of the Great Awakening as well as the role Puritan ministers played in 18th-century New England. It can be used in American history, social studies, and geography courses in units on colonial American religion and the Great Awakening.

Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
This lesson plan's goal is to examine the ways in which Miller interpreted the facts of the witch trials and successfully dramatized them. Our inquiry into this matter will be guided by aesthetic and dramatic concerns as we attempt to interpret history and examine Miller's own interpretations of it.
 

The Great Awakening

Diving America- Resources from the National Humanities Center related to religion in American history

Early America.  This site links to many primary sources of historical documents and portraits from 18th century America.

Jamestown Virtual Colony

Alabama Virtual Library

History Timelines (Alternatime)

History Matters  Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

National Archives Digital Classroom

American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The site contains thousands of digital artifacts related to American history and over a dozen lesson modules    
 

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