How did the debate over commercial radio reflect American attitudes toward technological change in the 1920s?
About AIC Lessons
America in Class® Lessons are tailored to meet the Common Core State Standards. The Lessons present challenging primary resources in a classroom-ready format, with background information and analytical strategies that enable teachers and students to subject texts and images to the close reading called for in the Standards.
Each AIC Lesson is built around a framing question, an essential understanding, and a single primary resource or a small manageable set of resources. A background note illuminates and contextualizes the material and another note offers teaching advice. Each Lesson culminates with key passages and analytical questions through which teachers can lead students to the essential understanding, and each concludes with a follow-up assessment. AIC Lessons are web-based and optimized for mobile devices.
Successful European Colonies in the New World
Why did some European attempts to establish colonies in the New World succeed while most failed?
Failed European Colonies in the New World
Why did many European attempts to establish colonies in the New World fail?
Early Visual Representations of the New World
How did Europeans interpret the New World through some of their earliest visual depictions?
The American Revolution as Civil War 
How did the American Revolution manifest itself as a civil war, turning neighbors into enemies?
Lexington and Concord: Tipping Point of the Revolution
How did the Battles of Lexington and Concord change the character of American resistance to British rule?
The Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era
How did the character of American politics change between the 1820s and the 1850s as a result of growing popular participation?
The Religious Roots of Abolition
How did American Christians in the nineteenth century come to see slavery as something that needed to be abolished?
A Pro-Slavery Argument, 1857
How did proponents of slavery in antebellum America defend it as a positive good?
Slavery and the Family Life of the Enslaved
How did slavery shape the family life of the enslaved in the American South?
The Enslaved and the Civil War
How did African Americans enslaved in the Confederacy undermine the Southern cause during the Civil War?
Women, Temperance Reform, and the Cult of Domesticity
How does women’s role in the campaign against alcohol consumption in antebellum America reflect the strengths and limitations of the cult of domesticity?
The “Aeroplane” as a Symbol of Modernism 
How did the airplane — with its marvel and mystery — symbolize modernism in the Twenties?
The “Phenomenon of Lindbergh”
How did the instant celebrity of Charles Lindbergh after his 1927 transatlantic flight reflect Americans’ values in the Twenties?