For classrooms and civic groups
Education center
The 250th anniversary is a strong excuse to teach primary-source literacy, civic vocabulary, and historical disagreement without turning the site into a partisan argument.
Lesson modules
Read the Declaration
Students identify claims, grievances, and the final declaration of independence.
Symbols of memory
Compare how Americans used Revolutionary imagery in 1876, 1976, and 2026.
Local history
Ask what local people, roads, churches, farms, ports, or militias existed during the Revolution.
Rights vocabulary
Define equality, consent, representation, rights, grievance, independence, and self-government.
Primary-source habits
- Who created the source?
- When was it created?
- Who was the audience?
- What was the purpose?
- What does it say directly?
- What does it leave out?