The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

ISSUE TWENTY THREE, MARCH 2010
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL

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Lesson Plans for high school, middle school and elementary school classrooms

Sports: Illustrating U.S. History in the Classroom, by Bruce Lesh and Philip Nicolosi

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Important Moments in Sports: Video Clips
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Why Sports History Is American History
by Mark Naison		 The Battle of the Sexes
by Gail Collins
Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow
by Larry Tye		 Amateurism and Jim Thorpe at the Fifth Olympiad
by Kate Buford
The Importance of Muhammad Ali
By Thomas Hauser		 The Impact of Title IX
by Barbara Winslow
 
The History of Women's Baseball
by Kerry Candaele		    
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