The featured document that is the main topic of this article, Robert E. Lee's Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and his Party [at Harpers Ferry], October 18, 1859, is from the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917; Record Group 94, and is in the holdings of the National Archives. As a part of "Teaching with Documents", a regular department of "Social Education", this article provides a number of teaching suggestions using the featured document. It provides a guide for document analysis with students, questions for discussion, suggestions for small group research, and a list of web sites for Cross Curricular Activity.