Guided Readings Guided Readings: Origins of the Cold War and Soviet-American Confrontation Economics, Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague,...
News Deep Dives with Two Civil War Era Courses at the Teacher Symposium With Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium courses like The American Civil War already filled, teachers looking for further enrichment in the Civil War are encouraged to go deeper into its causes and aftermath with two exciting courses...
Video Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War Government and Civics David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Houston, chose 360 original documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The authors have woven these...
Basic Page Social Change in the Civil War Era (Teacher Seminar Online) Social Change in the Civil War Era Lead Scholar : Catherine Clinton, University of Texas at San Antonio Master Teacher : CherylAnne Amendola Live Session Dates : Week of June 24 Registration Deadline : Monday, June 17 Image Source: “The First Vote”...
History Now Essay Women and Wagoners: Camp Followers in the American War for Independence Holly A. Mayer 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ An old tune called "The Girl I Left Behind Me" tells of a lovelorn soldier yearning to return home to his waiting fair maid. Although there is a good chance that this song was fifed during the Revolutionary War, the earliest... Appears in: 21 | The American Revolution Fall 2009
Essay The Civil Rights Movement Taylor Branch The word "movement" often designates a cultural shift of less import than the American Revolution, Great Depression, and other capitalized dramas in history. To be sure, some popular movements have gained broader recognition in the...