New and Timely Resources, Early 20th Century History, & Final Presidents Timeline Poster

C-SPAN Classroom

The C-SPAN Classroom Team regularly develops new resources highlighting current events, popular issues, and public policy discussions.

Below is a sampling of the many resources that have recently been featured on the C-SPAN Classroom home page.

Foreign Topics:

• Clip: The Rise of Authoritarianism and Autocratic Alliances (5:18)

• Clip: Russian Threats to Invade Ukraine and Biden Foreign Policy (3:42)

• Clip: German Chancellor Scholz Discusses Russian Aggression (3:57)

• Clip: NATO and Russia-Ukraine Tensions (9:33)

• Clip: The Winter Olympics and Human Rights Abuses in China (5:21)

• Clip: U.N. Secretary-General on Russia-Ukraine Situation (3:22)

• Clip: The U.S. Role in Assisting Other Democracies (4:59)

Domestic Topics:

• Clip: Surge in Traffic Fatalities in U.S. (2:49)

• Clip: U.S. Surgeon General Testifies on Youth Mental Health (9:25)

• Clip: Confidence in the Scientific Community (2:30)

• Clip: Relaunch of Cancer Moonshot Initiative (8:17)

• Clip: Automation and the Future of Work (5:22)

• Clip: Increasing Crime and Murder Rates in the United States (8:43)

• Clip: Crime Trends and Policies (5:57)

• Clip: Gun Policy in the United States (5:14)

• Clip: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Working Women in the US (4:59)

Governmental Topics:

• Clip: President Biden Remarks on January Jobs Report (9:56)

• Clip: Jonathan Bydlak on Biden Administration Economic Policy (6:47)

• Clip: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to Retire (6:39)

• Clip: Proposed Changes to the Electoral Count Act (6:08)

• Clip: The Presidential Records Act and Former President Donald Trump (10:19)

• Clip: Actress Angelina Jolie on the Reauthorization of the VAWA (5:49)

• Clip: Women in U.S. Politics Today (9:43)

Early 20th Century U.S. History

In his first inaugural address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This quote is just one of many that marked countless historical events in the first half of the 20th century.

We have gathered the following resources from our U.S. History Featured Resources site to help you teach your students about this period. Keep an eye out for next week’s email when we plan to feature resources for the latter half of the 20th Century.

Up to World War I:

• Bell Ringer: Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Era (4:35)

• Bell Ringer: Muckrakers (2:15)

• Bell Ringer: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (3:50)

• Bell Ringer: Progressive Era Reforms in the Wilson Administration (2:30)

• Bell Ringer: Origins of the NAACP (4:02)

• On This Day: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Assembly Line and Fordism (6:34)

• Bell Ringer: Socialism in the Early 20th Century (5:18)

World War I:

• Bell Ringer: The Zimmermann Telegram (8:33)

• On This Day: US Enters Into World War I (7 Clips)

• Choice Board - World War I (18 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson: The Selective Service Act (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: World War I Propaganda (15:09)

• Bell Ringer: World War I and Trench Warfare (4:39)

• Bell Ringer: Technology Advances in World War I (4:33)

• Bell Ringer: African Americans in World War I (10:03)

• Bell Ringer: US Women Soldiers During World War I (4:21)

• Bell Ringer: The Lost Battalion of the Argonne Forest (9:54)

• Bell Ringer: American Forces at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel (6:56)

• Lesson: WWI: U.S. Military in France in 1918 (4 Clips)

• Lesson: Schenck v. United States (6 clips)

Interwar Period:

• Lesson: American Antisemitism in the Early 1900s (8 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson: Lessons Learned from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: 1919 "Red Summer" (2 Clips)

• Lesson: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (6 Clips)

• Lesson: The Great Migration (9 Clips and Slides)

• Choice Board - Conversations with Suffragists (4 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson: Prohibition in the United States (8 Clips)

• Lesson: The Teapot Dome Scandal and Congressional Investigations (5 Clips)

• On This Day: Scopes Trial (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Charles Lindbergh and the First Solo Transatlantic Flight (6:50)

• Choice Board - Baseball During the Great Depression (10 Clips and Slides)

• Lesson: The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (8 Clips)

• Lesson: Economics and the Great Depression (11 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Dust Bowl Migration (9:25)

• Lesson: The New Deal (6 Clips)

• Clip: Overview of the Tennessee Valley Authority (4:30)

• Bell Ringer: The Works Progress Administration (2 Clips)

World War II:

• Bell Ringer: German Jewish Immigration at the Onset of World War Two (12:29)

• Lesson: World War II (10 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Victory Gardens during World War II (3:20)

• On This Day: Attack on Pearl Harbor (9 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Admiral Chester Nimitz (7:03)

• Bell Ringer: The North African Campaign during World War II (6:47)

• Lesson Plan: Korematsu v. United States (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Double V Campaign During World War II (2:22)

• Bell Ringer: The Casablanca Conference (3:36)

• On This Day: The D-Day Invasion (6 Clips)

• On This Day: The Battle of the Bulge (4 Clips)

• On This Day: The Battle of Iwo Jima (4 Clips)

• On This Day: The Yalta Conference (3 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: President Truman’s Atomic Bomb Speech (3:09)

• Bell Ringer: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (7:21)

• Bell Ringer: World War II Propaganda (5:14)

• Bell Ringer: The Tuskegee Airmen (6:47)

• Bell Ringer: Navajo Code Talkers (7:57)

• Bell Ringer: General Douglas MacArthur and World War II (4:34)

• Lesson: Was using the atomic bomb on Japan necessary for ending WWII? (8 Clips)

Early 20th Century World History

To complement the collection of U.S. History resources above, we have also aggregated the following chronological collection of early 20th Century World History resources from our World History Featured Resources site.

Remember to bookmark your favorite resources for use year after year!

Up to World War I:

• Bell Ringer: The Panama Canal (6:45)

• Bell Ringer: Evolution of Middle Eastern States in the 20th Century (5:42)

• Clip: The Armenian Genocide (4:30)

World War I:

• Bell Ringer: National Identity and the Beginnings of World War I (3:44)

• On This Day: The Sinking of the Lusitania (7 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Russia Before the 1917 Russian Revolution (4:35)

• Bell Ringer: Military Aviation during World War I (3:44)

• Bell Ringer: World War I: The Zimmermann Telegram (8:24)

• Clip: World War I: The Argonne Forest (7:21)

• On This Day: Treaty of Versailles (6 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Fall of Empires (4:45)

Interwar Period:

• Bell Ringer: American and British Suffrage Movements (14:41)

• Bell Ringer: The Establishment of the Soviet Union (1:21)

• Bell Ringer: Albert Einstein (3:39)

• Bell Ringer: Mass Production of Penicillin (11:50)

• Bell Ringer: The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Outlawing of War (4:38)

World War II:

• Bell Ringer: The Lead Up to the Japanese Invasion of China (6:45)

• Bell Ringer: The Nuremberg Laws (4:48)

• Bell Ringer: Francisco Franco of Spain (2:54)

• Bell Ringer: Benito Mussolini in Italy (1:38)

• Bell Ringer: Hitler's Approach to the Press (2:41)

• Bell Ringer: Kristallnacht (14:15)

• Lesson: Oral Histories of the Holocaust (8 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Munich Pact and the Unfulfilled Promise of Peace (5:32)

• On This Day: Germany's Invasion of Poland (5 Clips)

• Bell Ringer: Charles de Gaulle and the French Resistance (2 clips)

• Bell Ringer: The Battle of Dunkirk and Winston Churchill (5:24)

• Bell Ringer: German Plans for the Battle of Britain (3:22)

• On This Day: The Battle of Stalingrad (4 Clips)

• Clip: D-Day Vignette (28:47)

• Clip: End of World War II in Europe Newsreel (3:49)

• Clip: Japanese Surrender at the End of World War II (3:54)

• Bell Ringer: The End of World War II and the Beginnings of the Cold War (5:00)

American Presidents Timeline Poster

C‑SPAN Classroom has a limited number of our American Presidents Timeline poster left that are available for teachers. This colorful 6' long poster details the lives and public service careers of every president, plus key historical events, Supreme Court cases, Constitutional Amendments, and technology milestones throughout history.

Request Your Poster Here (Google Form)

The poster is FREE of charge (*limit one poster per person and only available to teachers residing in the U.S. and territories). Please allow up to 3-4 weeks for delivery. Note: each poster request is granted one (1) poster. If you need additional posters for your colleagues, please encourage your colleagues to submit his/her own poster request. This will be our final poster mailing for this school year.

A close-up view of the poster key:

C-SPAN's American Presidents Website

Our new American Presidents home page prominently features each president’s portrait, name, presidency number and term years. On each president’s subpage, links spotlight C-SPAN’s myriad of resources, including a search of our Video Library customized for each president. Other links include the presidential 2021 Historians Survey result, the virtual American Presidents exhibit, our White House documentary, and C-SPAN Classroom’s Teacher Resources page.

Users can also explore the presidents further through individual subpages that detail each one’s life and presidency through key facts, a brief biography, and historic artwork or other images. Within the key facts, the First Ladies series page and the president’s library or other key sites are also linked.

Warm regards,

Craig McAndrew, Pam McGorry and Zach Lowe C-SPAN's Education Team