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George Washington’s Rules of Civility

Introduction

When George Washington was a teenager, he wanted to make a good impression on his elders. Good manners were important to him. He made sure that he knew how Rules of Civility from a French rulebook into his own handwriting. Rules of Civility was a list of 110 rules for people to follow. These rules dealt with different situations, such as how to be respectful to people, how to be polite when dining with others, and how to behave. Here are ten of the rules:

Every Action done in Company...

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Slavery and Abolition

 

 

 

 

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Women’s Suffrage: 140 Years of Struggle

Background

Today’s students have an acute sense of fairness, and they dislike inequality in their lives. As they learn about our country’s history, they want to know why people have been treated unfairly. Why was slavery allowed? Why were Native Americans forced off their land? Why couldn’t women vote? The answers to the first two questions are rooted in economic and political forces of institutionalized racism and greed. This lesson focuses on answering the third question and addressing institutionalized gender discrimination....

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Bruised Egos, Battles, and Boycott: The 1980 Moscow Olympics

Background

Politics and sports have intermingled since the inception of the Olympic Games in Greece, but not until the 1980 Olympics did people fear that politics might destroy the Olympic movement and spirit. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America battled each other ideologically, economically, militarily, culturally, and politically in a very long Cold War that spanned more than forty years (1948–1991). In the midst of the Cold War, the two countries often met in sporting arenas around the world...

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Presidential Election Results, 1789–2008

Introduction

The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, who are representatives typically chosen by the candidate’s political party, though some state laws differ. Each state’s number of electors is based on its congressional delegation (one for each member in the House of Representatives and one for each member in the Senate). Currently, a total of 270 electoral votes is required to win the presidency.Prior to the 1804 election the first runner-up became vice president, as spelled out in the US Constitution. As a...

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Using Primary and Secondary Sources: Slavery in the Founding Era

Primary and secondary sources can provide different kinds of information about the past. In the context of slavery, Phillis Wheatley is considered the most important figure of the eighteenth century. Two accounts of her experience having been carried to America and then enslaved appear below. Read each account, and then answer the questions that follow.

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“On Being Brought from Africa to America”

’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,Taught my benighted soul to...

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Cultural Encounters: Teaching Exploration and Encounter to Students

Some 40,000 years from now, give or take a few millennia, someone, somewhere in the universe may find and listen to the Golden Record, NASA’s attempt to describe Earth and its peoples to anyone out there who might be interested. There are actually two copies of the Golden Record, each on its own spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which were launched out into the cosmos in 1977, one year after the Bicentennial of the United States and almost five centuries after the first sustained encounters between the peoples of the...

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Major European Explorers

 

 

 

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The Conquest of Mexico: Past and Present Views

Introduction

The conquest of Tenochtitlan by Hernán Cortez in 1519 is one of the most well-known examples of encounters between Europeans and Americans prior to 1600. Some primary sources that document the event still exist, though many are quite difficult for elementary-age students to read and comprehend. This lesson will draw from sources that can be understood by children and will provide basic content knowledge of the event. Students will also be exposed to varying views on the conquest that are both contemporary to the...

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Eleanor Roosevelt on Democracy and Citizenship: A Common Core Unit

Unit Overview

In three lessons students will interact with readings of excerpted documents to develop an understanding of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a humanitarian devoted to a strong democracy with educated citizens. Students will work with the teacher and in small groups to deconstruct text for meaning and to construct written responses to higher-level thinking questions.   

Lesson 1: “Preserving Civil Liberties,” Speech, Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Chicago, IL, March 14, 1940 excerpted. Eleanor...