Teach US History

Background Essays

These background essays and materials provide context for the primary source resources and the lesson plans that accompany them. You will also find links to these essays throughout the lesson plans where they are part of the activities.

  • Isaiah Thomas - Short Biographical Essay
  • Time Line of Isaiah Thomas's Life
  • Historic Transportation and Communication Essay
  • Printing in Isaiah Thomas's Time Essay
  • About Us
  • The American Revolution
  • Indian Removal
  • Isaiah Thomas - Patriot Printer
    • Overview
    • Background Essays
    • Lesson Plans
    • Resources
    • Acknowledgements
  • Life in Antebellum America
  • Temperance Reform in the Early 19th Century
  • The Dred Scott Decision
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
  • The Second Great Awakening and the Age of Reform
  • War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention
  • Westward Expansion

In Development

  • Nineteenth-Century Immigration
  • The Civil War

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