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The Origins of US Cold War Fears, 1946–1961
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The Cold War as a Culture War: Visualizing Values and the Role of Pop Culture
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World War I, African American Soldiers, and America’s War for Democracy
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"You Drop A Petal in the Water, and It Has a Ripple Effect": The Disability Rights Movement, 1950-1990
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Sharecropping Contracts in the Reconstruction-Era South, 1867-1870
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Generations of Chinese in America, 1880s–1940s/1940s–1990s
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War, Immigration Policies, and Dissent: Landmark Moments in Latina/o History
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The History of Federal, State, and Tribal Powers, 1788–2020
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Free Speech in US History, 1917-1988
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The US Government and Indigenous Peoples before the Trail of Tears, 1770-1839
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Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: Pairing Text and Visual Materials
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Latino and Latina Civil Rights, 1930-1970
About This Lesson Plan Unit The objective of the unit is to have students recognize the economic, social, and political challenges faced by Latinas and Latinos throughout the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s, as...
Prominent Latinos and Latinas in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century United States
About This Lesson Plan Unit The objective of the unit is to have students recognize the economic, social, and political challenges faced by Latinas and Latinos throughout the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s, as...
Latino Immigration to the United States in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
About This Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore Latino and Latina immigration to the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, emphasizing how immigrants understood and experienced this...
Pilgrims, the Plymouth Colony, and Thanksgiving, 1608-1621
About this Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore the Pilgrims’ journey to the British colonies and their early settlement. Students will read primary sources, including excerpts from William Bradford’s “Of...
Spain and the American Revolution: Contributions to the Patriot Cause
About This Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore Spain’s contributions to the American Revolution. Students will read and examine correspondence, a royal order, a map, and a combat diary. You will assess the...
Debating Chinese Immigration and Naturalization, 1869-1898
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Colonial Pennsylvania and the Paxton Massacre, 1763
About this Lesson Plan Unit The four lessons in this unit explore a massacre in colonial Pennsylvania in which the Paxton Boys—immigrants from Ulster, Northern Ireland—murdered twenty Conestoga people. Students will examine...
The Mexican-American War: Arguments for and against Going to War
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Trusts
Background Thick dark smoke billowing out of smokestacks several stories high proliferated across city skylines, heralding America's rise to world prominence and industrial supremacy. After the Civil War, Americans embraced the smog...
“A City Upon a Hill” from John Winthrop’s “A Modell of Christian Charity,” 1630
About This Lesson Plan Unit This four-lesson unit focuses on the “city upon a hill” passage from John Winthrop’s “A Modell of Christian Charity” lay sermon, delivered in 1630 as the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay. The...
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