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Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? or A Good Man! In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."	9-12	Lesson Plan
Analyzing McCulloch v. Maryland In this lesson, students watch a video segment from the PBS series The Supreme Court about the landmark case Maryland v. McCulloch while considering the powers of the national government and state governments.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties In this lesson, students examine the basic American principles of civil liberties within the context of World War II.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Black Pioneers: Building African American Communities During the Jim Crow Era Students are introduced to all-black, self-sustaining communities established as a response to the imposition of Jim Crow laws and practices.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Campaigns for Economic Freedom This lesson plan explores the economic impact of racial discrimination and campaigns for jobs and justice.	9-12	Lesson Plan
A Cold Reception: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the United States In this lesson, students explore the hostile reception immigrants have often received from anti-immigrant “nativists” in an America not always eager to accept them and the change they represent.	7-9	Lesson Plan
The Colonization of the United States Using video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots, this lesson explores Spanish colonialism in the Southwest; the lesson also expands the discussion to include other countries that colonized in North America.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Coming to America Using video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots, this lesson explores why groups of people leave their native countries, often to come to the United States, and what major historical milestones prompted mass migrations.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Crescent City Gumbo: Race & Jazz in New Orleans This lesson uses video excerpts from the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to explore the history of racial diversity and intermingling in New Orleans, and how it gave rise to the uniquely American art form of jazz.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Define and Classify the Powers Associated with Federalism In this lesson, students watch video segments from the series The Supreme Court as they explore how the Supreme Court defined the balance of power under federalism.	9-12	Lesson Plan
The Economics of Jim Crow In this lesson, students learn how the laws and practices of Jim Crow crippled many African Americans and lead to economic destabilization.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Faith in Change: John Lewis This lesson uses video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots to explore the American civil rights movement of the 1960s through the personal experience of one of its most prominent leaders—Congressman John Lewis.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Fighting Jim Crow in the Schools In this lesson students map the events in the fight for education for African Americans from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights movement.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Free, but not Free: Life of Free Blacks before the Civil War This hands-on, media-enhanced lesson explores the life of free blacks in the United States prior to the Civil War using video segments from Finding Your Roots.	9-11	Lesson Plan
The Geography of Jim Crow In this lesson, students locate statistical information using census data from the United States Historical Census Data Browser.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Hamilton's Bank In this lesson inspired by the PBS program Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton students explore the political and philosophical differences between Alexander Hamilton's Federalists and Thomas Jefferson's Republicans.	9-12	Lesson Plan
An Honorable Death? This lesson plan for high school students explores the dispute of honor between Alexander Hamilton and then-Vice president Aaron Burr.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Islam in America In this lesson, students explore some of the religious and cultural variations and diversity within Islam, as well as the relation of Muslims to members of other religious groups.	5-12	Lesson Plan
The Jim Crow Years: People Who Made a Difference In this lesson, students identify individuals who distinguished themselves and made contributions to their communities during the Jim Crow era.	9-12	Lesson Plan
The Law and Politics of Jim Crow This lesson examines the changing legal status of African Americans after slavery, the political violence that accompanied that change, and the legal challenges to Jim Crow.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Living with Jim Crow This lesson examines how the history of Jim Crow can be understood through the stories of individuals while still recounting a larger historical narrative.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Looking for Lincoln During the Civil War This lesson explores the unique challenges Lincoln faced during the five years of bloody civil war which made him America’s ultimate but most controversial wartime leader.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Minersville School District v.Gobitis In this lesson, students examine the Supreme Court’s evolution in its decisions to support individual liberties.	9-12	Lesson Plan
The Quest for Religious Freedom In this lesson, video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots are used to explore how religion has played a part in attracting immigrants to the U.S. and the role it plays in the lives of modern American families.	10-12	Lesson Plan
Realities of Life in the Jim Crow Era This hands-on, media-enhanced lesson explores life in the Jim Crow South using video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots.	8-11	Lesson Plan
Re-Examining Brown This lesson explores the historical complexity of the struggle to desegregate schools, the geographic scope of racism, conditions that prompted activism and litigation, and how laws have changed over time.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Religion and the First Amendment In this lesson, students learn about the First Amendment and its protection of religious freedom as well as various Muslim practices and rituals. They prepare and present an arts-based project about freedom of religion.	5-12	Lesson Plan
Slavery in the North This hands-on, media-enhanced lesson uses video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots to explore the extent to which slavery existed in the North.	8-11	Lesson Plan
Sources of History This media-enhanced lesson features video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots and explores primary source material - how it can reveal information about the past and the different information primary sources provide.	8-10	Lesson Plan
The Importance of Precedent in the Decisons of the Supreme Court In this lesson based on the series The Supreme Court, students define the terms "precedent" and "stare decisis".	9-12	Lesson Plan
Understanding and Applying the Miranda Decision In this lesson students learn about the landmark Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and apply the principles of Miranda to subsequent cases.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Understanding White Supremacy This lesson plan explores how white southerners tried to protect their economic, political, and social privilege in the face of the Civil Rights movement.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Women in Islam Students explore basic beliefs and practices of Islam and examine the different views of women's roles in Islam and modern American society in this lesson. They look closely at two issues that affect American Muslims: hijab and prayer.	5-12	Lesson Plan

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