Hispanic Heritage Month Materials

September 15-October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. We have free history lessons and assessments to teach Hispanic, U.S. Latino, and Latin American history this month and year-round. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.

United States History Lessons​​​​​​

• California Missions*
• Portola Expedition
• Texas Revolution  
• Spanish-American War
• Manifest Destiny*
• Evaluating Historical Sources on Juana Briones
• Maine Explosion
• Porvenir Massacre
• Mexicans in the United States in the 1920s*
• Mexican Migration in the 1930s*
• Zoot Suit Riots*
• Cold War in Guatemala
• Castro and the United States*
• 1973 Chile Coup
• Iran-Contra Affair
• NAFTA

United States History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)

• Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
• Mexican Immigration in the 1920s 
• Mexican Americans in the 1930s  
• U.S. Policies on Mexican Migration
• Mexican American Rights 
• United Farm Workers

World History Lessons

• Teotihuacan* 
• Inca Empire*
• Moctezuma and Cortés*
• Moctezuma's Zoo*
• La Malinche*
• Aztec Encyclopedia*
• Atahualpa and the Bible*
• The Middle Passage
• Cold War in Guatemala
• Castro and the United States*
• 1973 Chile Coup
• Zapatista Uprising

World History History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)

• Seville Quran
• Atahualpa and de Soto*
• The Florentine Codex
• Inca Fortification
• Túpac Amaru II
• Haitian Revolution
• Haitian Constitution
• Pancho Villa
• 20th-Century Spain