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List of Reading Like a Historian Lessons

Introduction Lesson Plans

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

Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts

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

U.S. History

 
Unit 1: Colonial  
Pocahontas Mapping the New World
The Puritans Examining Passenger Lists
King Philip's War Salem Witch Trials
Portola Expedition California Missions
   
Unit 2: Revolutionary and Early America  
Boston Massacre Great Awakening
Stamp Act Battle of Lexington
Loyalists Declaration of Independence
Shay's Rebellion OUT Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Slavery in the Constitution Hamilton v. Jefferson
   
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery  
Manifest Destiny Second Middle Passage
Slavery Narratives California Missions
Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark SAC
Freedom's Journal Nat Turner
Texas Revolution Irish Immigration
Gold Rush and San Francisco Evaluating Sources on Juana Briones
   
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction  
John Brown Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons Sharecropping
Reconstruction SAC Radical Reconstruction
Fort Sumter  
   
Unit 5: The Gilded Age  
Chinese Immigration and Exclusion Battle of Little Bighorn
Populism and the Election of 1896 1898 North Carolina Election
Homestead Strike Albert Parsons SAC
Pullman Strike Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Great Plains Homesteaders  
   
Unit 6: American Imperialism  
Maine Explosion Spanish-American War
Philippine-American War Political Cartoons Soldiers in the Philippines
Annexation of Hawaii  
   
Unit 7: Progressive Era  
Political Bosses Jacob Riis
Progressive Social Reformers Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois Background on Woman Suffrage
Anti-Suffragists Child Labor
Edward Curtis  
   
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s  
U.S. Entry into WWI Sedition in WWI
Great Migration Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Prohibition Marcus Garvey
Palmer Raids Scopes Trial
Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s League of Nations
   
Unit 9: New Deal and World War II  
Social Security New Deal SAC
The Dust Bowl Japanese Internment
Ansel Adams at Manzanar Zoot Suit Riots
The Atomic Bomb Mexican Migration in the 1930s
Migrant Mother Photograph  
   
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  
Montgomery Bus Boycott Women in the 1950s
Great Society Civil Rights Act of 1964
Anti-Vietnam War Movement Civil Rights Movement Photos
NAACP Letters Public Housing
Little Rock Nine Stonewall Riots
Equal Rights Amendment  
   
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s  
Reaganomics Kyoto Protocol
NAFTA Hurricane Katrina
Iraq Resolution   

World History Lessons

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

 

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