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List of Reading Like a Historian Lessons

Introduction Lesson Plans

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

Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts

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

U.S. History

 
Unit 1: Colonial  
Pocahontas The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons
The Puritans Examining Passenger Lists
Mapping the New World 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
Battle of Lexington Loyalists
Declaration of Independence Shays' Rebellion
Slavery in the Constitution Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Hamilton v. Jefferson  
   
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery  
Second Middle Passage Slavery Narratives
Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark SAC
Freedom's Journal Texas Revolution
Manifest Destiny Gold Rush and San Francisco
Irish in 19th-Century America Evaluating Sources on Juana Briones
   
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction  
John Brown's Motivation Fort Sumter
Civil War Photographs Emancipation
Reconstruction SAC Radical Reconstruction
Douglass and Lincoln Biddy Mason
Sharecropping  
   
Unit 5: The Gilded Age  
Battle of Little Bighorn Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Chinese Immigration and Exclusion Great Plains Homesteaders
Albert Parsons SAC Tribal Land Policies
Homestead 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
   
Unit 7: Progressive Era  
Background on Woman Suffrage Jacob Riis
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois The Liberator and the Black Press
Political Bosses Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Child Labor Settlement House Movement SAC
Edward Curtis Anti-Suffragists
Women's Movement in the 20th Century  
   
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s  
Great Migration U.S. Entry into WWI
Sedition in WWI Porvenir Massacre
Chicago Race Riots of 1919 Prohibition
League of Nations Marcus Garvey
Palmer Raids Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s
Scopes Trial Sacco and Vanzetti
Historical Photographs of African Americans Women's Movement in the 20th Century
   
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 Tribal Land Policies
Historical Photographs of African Americans Women's Movement in the 20th Century
   
Unit 10: Cold War  
The Cold War The Korean War
Truman and MacArthur Cold War in Guatemala
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 The Black Power Movement
1973 Chile Coup Tribal Land Policies
Women's Movement in the 20th Century Watergate
Pardon of Nixon SAC  
   
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s  
Reaganomics SAC AIDS Crisis
Iran-Contra Affair Kyoto Protocol
NAFTA Iraq Resolution
Hurricane Katrina  
   

World History Lessons

 
Unit 1: Ancient  
Hammurabi's Code Egyptian Pyramids
Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem Athenian Democracy SAC
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 Aztec Encyclopedia
Atahualpa and the Bible Galileo
   
Unit 3: Modern  
The Middle Passage The Glorious Revolution
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 Affair
1973 Chile Coup  
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