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Evaluating Perspectives on Westward Expansion: Weighing the Evidence
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:05pm--Stephanie Greenhut
A unique online tool helps students analyze documents from opposing perspectives, weigh each source’s significance, and come to evidence-based conclusions.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506317.pdf
Printer-friendly versionLetter to President Harry Truman about the Murder of Harry T. Moore
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:08pm--Megan Jones
The featured letter to President Truman about the murder of an NAACP official can be used as a springboard into the exploration of the civil rights struggle and violence, as well as the issue of presidential powers.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506322.pdf
Letter to President Harry Truman about the Murder of Harry T. Moore
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:08pm--Megan Jones
The featured letter to President Truman about the murder of an NAACP official can be used as a springboard into the exploration of the civil rights struggle and violence, as well as the issue of presidential powers.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506322.pdf
Encountering the Complicated Legacy of Andersonville
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:15pm--James A. Percoco
Teaching about the Civil War through the study of historic sites, such as the Confederate prison at Andersonville, challenges students to wrestle with tough interpretations of American history.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506326.pdf
Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With:” Teaching Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:34pm--Tiffany Middleton
A painting inspired by the 1960 court-ordered escort of Ruby Bridges into a New Orleans school offers an entry point into the study of the civil rights movement and a significant event in American legal history.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506329.pdf
National Day of Listening Comes to Midland, Michigan: A StoryCorps Project
Submitted by Steven Lapham on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 12:22pm--Ann Burke
NPR's StoryCorps can be a opportunity for students to conduct an oral history project, or interview people about their daily experiences, or survey opinions regarding a current event. This project involved team teaching.
Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Invention and Mental Mapping of the New World
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 11:47am--Luis Martínez Fernández
Approaching the encounter between Europe and the Americas as an intellectual rather than a physical discovery enables students to go beyond memorization to gain an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance ways of acquiring knowledge.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011307.pdf
Charting the Land of Flowers: Exploration and Mapmaking in Spanish Florida
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 11:57am--Rodney Kite-Powell
Two key maps that show the “known world” from the European perspective before Christopher Columbus’s voyages illustrate the knowledge of intellectuals of that period and reveal tales of exploration, conflict, and change.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011314.pdf
Borderlands of the Southwest: An Exercise in Geographical History
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:00pm--Stephen J. Thornton
Standard accounts of U.S. history present a chronology of events that begins in the East and moves west. An alternative approach traces Spanish exploration and settlement in what is now the American Southwest.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011319.pdf
Borderlands of the Southwest: An Exercise in Geographical History
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:00pm--Stephen J. Thornton
Standard accounts of U.S. history present a chronology of events that begins in the East and moves west. An alternative approach traces Spanish exploration and settlement in what is now the American Southwest.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011319.pdf
