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List of Reading Like a Historian Lessons

Introduction Lesson Plans

 
Lunchroom Fight I Make Your Case!
Lunchroom Fight II Snapshot Autobiography
Evaluating Sources  
   

Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts

 
Close Reading Contextualization
Corroboration Historical Thinking Chart
Sourcing What is History?
   

U.S. History

 
Unit 1: Colonial  
Examining Passenger Lists Mapping the New World
Pocahontas The Puritans
The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons King Philip's War
Salem Witch Trials Portola Expedition
California Missions  
   
Unit 2: Revolutionary and Early America  
Great Awakening Stamp Act
American Revolution SAC Boston Massacre
Loyalists Battle of Lexington
Declaration of Independence Shays' Rebellion OUT
Federalists and Anti-Federalists Slavery in the Constitution
Hamilton v. Jefferson  
   
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery  
Manifest Destiny Second Middle Passage
Slavery Narratives Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark SAC Freedom's Journal
Texas Revolution Irish in 19th Century America
Gold Rush and San Francisco Evaluating Sources on Juana Briones
   
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction  
John Brown's Motivation Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction SAC Sharecropping
Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons Fort Sumter
Civil War Photographs  
   
Unit 5: The Gilded Age  
Battle of Little Bighorn Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Great Plains Homesteaders Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
Albert Parsons SAC Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike Populism and the Election of 1896
1898 North Carolina Election  
   
Unit 6: American Imperialism  
Annexation of Hawaii Maine Explosion
Spanish-American War Soldiers in the Philippines
Philippine-American War Political Cartoons  
   
Unit 7: Progressive Era  
Background on Woman Suffrage Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
Child Labor Jacob Riis
Political Bosses Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Settlement House Movement SAC Edward Curtis
Anti-Suffragists  
   
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s  
Marcus Garvey Great Migration
Sedition in WWI U.S. Entry into WWI
Porvenir Massacre Chicago Race Riots of 1919
League of Nations Palmer Raids
Prohibition Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s
Scopes Trial  
   
Unit 9: New Deal and World War II  
Mexican Migration in the 1930s The Dust Bowl
New Deal SAC Social Security
Migrant Mother Photograph Japanese American Incarceration
Ansel Adams at Manzanar Zoot Suit Riots
The Atomic Bomb  
   
Unit 10: Cold War  
The Cold War Korean War OUT
Truman and MacArthur Guatemala OUT
Castro and the United States Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
   
Unit 11: Cold War Culture/Civil Rights  
Civil Rights Movement Photos NAACP Letters
Public Housing Women in the 1950s
Little Rock Nine Montgomery Bus Boycott
John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights Great Society
Anti-Vietnam War Movement Stonewall Riots
Equal Rights Amendment  
   
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s  
Reaganomics SAC Iran-Contra
NAFTA Kyoto Protocol
Hurricane Katrina Iraq Resolution
   

World History Lessons

 
Unit 1: Ancient  
Hammurabi's Code Athenian Democracy SAC
Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem Battle of Thermopylae
Roman Republic Fall of the Qin Dynasty
Confucianism and Daoism Augustus
Cleopatra Attila and Pope Leo
Roman Empire and Christianity  
   
Unit 2: Medieval  
The Dark Ages Expansion of the Islamic Empire
First Crusade Teotihuacan
Mansa Musa Ibn Battuta
The Black Death in Florence Understanding the Black Death
Inca Empire Martin Luther
Moctezuma and Cortés La Malinche
Moctezuma's Zoo Atahualpa and the Bible
Galileo  
   
Unit 3: Modern  
The Middle Passage Reign of Terror
Portola Expedition Factory Life
The Sepoy Rebellion Battle of Adwa
Battle of the Somme Armistice
Atatürk and Women's Rights in Turkey Women's War of 1929
Invasion of Nanking Appeasement
Nazi Propaganda India Partition
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba China's Cultural Revolution
The Atomic Bomb The Cold War
The Korean War Cold War in Guatemala
Castro and the United States Cuban Missile Crisis
Iran-Contra  
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