Title |
Era |
Topic |
Theme |
Grade Level |
Primary Source Activities |
Immigration in Your Community |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Immigration |
The gathering and interactions of peoples, cultures, and ideas |
7-12 |
Minstrel Show Posters: A Background Lesson to Introduce Civil Rights |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
11-12 |
Orangeburg Massacre |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
11-12 |
Race and Point of View in To Kill a Mockingbird |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
What is Segregation? |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
Nativism and Anti-Irish Sentiment in the United States |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
Comparing the Creed of the Klanswomen to the Bill of Rights |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Lesson with Primary Documents |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
North or South? Racial Attitudes before the Civil War |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
The Quest for Citizenship |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
The Ku Klux Klan in Vermont and New Hampshire |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
Connecting Primary Sources to Warriors Don’t Cry |
Contemporary America (1945 to present) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
5-8 |
Connecting Primary Sources to Witness |
Development of Modern America (19th and 20th centuries). |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
7 |
Should She Have the Vote? |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Voting Rights |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
8 |
Rights and Freedoms: The First Amendment |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Voting Rights |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
8 |
Preconceptions about Race in our Communities: A primary source investigation |
The development of modern America (19th and 20th centuries) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
8 |
The Ku Klux Klan in Vermont |
The development of modern America (1865 to 1920) |
Civil Rights Movement |
Change and continuity in American democracy: ideas, institutions, events, key figures, and controversies |
9-12 |