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The following lesson plans are best suited to students in Grades 6-8:
African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
The American Dream
American Indian Reservation Controversies
The American West: Images of Its People
Around the World in 1896
The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
Child Labor in America
Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
The Evolution of the Book
: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis
Explorations in American Environmental History
Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
French Canadian Immigrants in New England
Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life
German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
The Grapes of Wrath
: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People
How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market
The Huexotzinco Codex
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
Immigration and Oral History
The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
Immigration History Firsthand
Immigration: Our Changing Voices
Indian Boarding Schools
Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself
Journeys West
Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand
Local History: Mapping My Spot
Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal
: An Educational Voyage
Mark Twain's Hannibal
Migration during the Great Depression: Living History
The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look
Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury
The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community
Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph
Oral History and Social History
Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History
Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of
Jacob Have I Loved
Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts
Recreation Yesterday and Today
Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
Suffragists and Their Tactics
Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America
Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library
The
Titanic
: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking
To Kill a Mockingbird
: A Historical Perspective
Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done
The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507
Westward Expansion: Links to the Past
Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?
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