Students use primary documents that include Senate speeches, newspaper opinion pieces, and Presidential speeches, students explore to American Imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This module is designed for a deep dive into key primary texts from a major debate in U.S. History...
Students will consider the experience of immigration from the point of view of children who have immigrated to the U.S., based on a blend of fiction and nonfiction texts. These texts might include immigrants who lived in the past as well as contemporary times. Students compare and contrast the...
Frederick Douglass referred to the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation as a date greater than even that of July 4, 1776. However, Secretary of State, William Seward referred to it as nothing more than a “puff of wind.” So what does the Emancipation Proclamation really say?
FDR’s first Fireside Chat had a palpable impact on public understanding and confidence in the U.S. banking system, combining information, argumentation, style, tone and the potent new medium of radio broadcasts to create a powerful shift in American public events and private economic choices....
President Roosevelt’s “date that will live in infamy” speech is short, clear, and powerful, conveying a giant turn of historical events in a text every student should engage. Using the question of what FDR chose to say and not say in his address to Congress, this module engages the full run-up...
