Lesson Plan After World War II: The Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this lesson.
Lesson Plan The Decision to Escalate in Vietnam 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this three-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this four-lesson unit.
Essay The Battle to Expand Access to the Ballot from 1920 to 2000 Michael J. Pitts Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Paragraphs > Access this essay as a PDF , including key vocabulary terms and discussion questions, or read the text of the essay below. State and local governments have primary responsibility for setting the...
Lesson Plan "You Drop A Petal in the Water, and It Has a Ripple Effect": The Disability Rights Movement, 1950-1990 Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this four-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan The Resignation Speech of Richard M. Nixon Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this two-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Generations of Chinese in America, 1880s–1940s/1940s–1990s 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download Unit 1. Click here to download Unit 2.
Essay What’s That Sound? Teaching the 1960s through Popular Music Brian Ward Art There’s Something Happening Here . . . The 1960s was one of the most dramatic and controversial decades in American history. Opinions about its achievements and failures continue to be divided between those who condemn the decade as...
Essay The Fight for LGBT Rights after World War II Timothy Stewart-Winter The oppression of LGBT Americans did not begin in the post–World War II decades, but they faced increasingly systematic exclusion from public life, in part resulting from the Cold War political climate of fear and distrust of people...
Essay The Disability Rights Movement in America Jaipreet Virdi Disabled people have always fought for their rights. This is because they know that every policy issue, health crisis, inaccessible space, and fight for justice is a disability issue. Demanding access and advocacy for all people,...