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Robert W. Merry - "Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861"

Government and Civics

Robert W. Merry has authored six books, including President McKinley: Architect of the American Century and A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent . Order Decade of...

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Children’s Attitudes about Slavery and Women’s Abolitionism as Seen through Anti-slavery Fairs

6, 7, 8

Overview Over two days, students will examine the attitudes that children from northern states had about slavery during the 1830s to 1860s and how abolitionists tried to change their way of thinking. They will also explore how woman...

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Alex Kershaw - "Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II"

Religion and Philosophy

Alex Kershaw is the author of The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II and A venue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris ....

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Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE VOYAGES Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The...

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Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Immigration and Migration: Pairing Text and Visual Materials

Art

3, 4, 5

About This Lesson Plan Unit > In the three lessons in this unit, students will explore European immigration to the United States, the Great Migration, and the deportation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the late...

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“Life in This New Land”: The Story of Immigrants and Refugees from Asia, 1924–1986

3, 4, 5

About This Lesson Plan Unit > The four lesson plans in this unit explore Asian migration to the United States in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will examine immigration laws,...

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Historical Context: The Constitution and Slavery

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

On the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the US Constitution, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court, said that the Constitution was "defective from the start." He pointed out that the framers...

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American Symbols: The Flag, the Statue of Liberty, and the Great Seal

Art, Government and Civics

K, 1, 2

About This Lesson Plan Unit > In the three lessons in this unit, students will explore three iconic American symbols: the Flag of the United States of America, the Statue of Liberty, and the Great Seal of the United States...

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The Battle of Gettysburg through Union and Confederate Eyes

6, 7, 8

About This Lesson Plan Unit > The two lessons in this unit explore the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Students will read a letter and a speech by Abraham Lincoln and a letter by Robert E. Lee providing two leaders’ assessments...

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David Greenberg - "John Lewis: A Life"

Government and Civics

David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Order John Lewis: A Life at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase...