Document analysis and discussion questions help students examine: What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who decides what is considered cruel and unusual? How can it be measured?
Tag: amendment
Freedom to Cover the World Series
Reporter Melissa Ludtke sued the Commissioner of Baseball to gain access to the locker room, calling out 1st amendment-guaranteed freedom of the press and the 14th amendment's equal protection clause.
Permission to “Take it to the Streets”
The right of the people to peaceably assemble is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. But what happens when a city requires a group to obtain a permit to do so?
Join us at NCSS!
Our sessions cover the Bill of Rights, the amendment process, civics, and teaching NHD and C3 with primary sources.
Using Primary Sources to Analyze the 2015 AP U.S. Government FRQ: Civil Rights & Liberties
Our intern offers insight into how she’ll teach the 14th Amendment to her AP students next year using primary sources.
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights App: Android and PDF Release
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights app is now available for Android devices.
Constitution Day: Application in the Classroom
Take ideas for classroom activities from these Constitution Day family activities at the National Archives.
Vote for our first “Records of Rights” display document!
Get your students involved in choosing which rights-related document will display in our new exhibition, “Records of Rights,” opening November 8 in Washington, DC.
Mr. President, It is my Desire to be free.
"Mr. President, It is my Desire to be free." Thus wrote (another - not me!) Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln, 20 months after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Writing from Belair, Maryland, she continued, “Will you please let me know if we are free.” But she was not. The Emancipation Proclamation affected only those states … Continue reading Mr. President, It is my Desire to be free.