The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties : Teachers Guide

The Bill of Rights is designed to supplement your students' study of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties is made up of ten exercises and includes a booklet containing a teachers guide, reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets and digital images of original documents. Each exercise includes reproductions of documents from the National Archives and suggests classroom activities based on these documents. The documents include official correspondence, petitions, photographs, posters, newspapers, maps, and court decisions. Students practice the historian's skills as they complete exercises, using these documents to gather information, identify points of view, evaluate evidence, form hypotheses, and draw conclusions.

Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:

The Constitution: Evolution of a Government

The United States Expands West: 1785-1842

Westward Expansion: 1842-1912

The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians

The Progressive Years: 1898-1917

World War I: The Home Front

The 1920's

The Great Depression and The New Deal

World War II: The Home Front

The United States At War: 1944

The Truman Years: 1945-1953

Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961