This lesson provides information and activities about one American Indian Nation, the Anishinabe, called Ojibwe in Canada and Chippewa in the U.S., and engages students in research on its history, location, and past and present culture.
Cultural Encounters: Teaching Exploration and Encounter to Students
This essay details some of the methods that people indigenous to the Americas used to communicate with European explorers during some of their first encounters.
How the Framers Understood Impeachment- and How Party Politics Altered Their Intent
Dr. Jeremy D. Bailey, a political science professor, explains the presidential impeachment process from a constitutional and historical perspective.
Congress’ Power of Impeachment
The legislative branch’s power of impeachment provides a significant check over the Executive and Judicial Branches.
Impeachment and Conviction
This printable infographic explains how impeachment works, who’s involved, where those entities get their authority, and what it really takes to remove a federal official from office.
To Understand a Scandal: Watergate beyond Nixon
Even today, four decades after the events, Watergate still symbolizes all that is, and might be, wrong with the workings of the federal government, elected officials and, ultimately, with the political system itself.
Impeachment
This collection of readings makes it easy to find reliable sources and activities that unpack various aspects of the impeachment process.
Bill of Rights in Action: The Watergate Scandal
Nixon resigned because of “Watergate”—a scandal that began with a bungled burglary and ended with criminal charges against his closest aides and demands for his impeachment.
Federal Courts in History: United States v. Nixon
Dealing with the principle of separation of powers, this lesson focuses on the question of whether or not the Constitution’s separation of powers intended to create an absolute executive privilege.
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
In this Presidents and the Constitution eLesson we examine how the conflict between Andrew Johnson and the Congress regarding reconstruction plans after the Civil War led to the nation’s first impeachment of a President.