Social Studies
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Robber Barons And Rebels
In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the blacks would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in human history. They would do it with the aid of, and at the expense of, black labor, white labor, Chinese labor, European immigrant labor, female labor, rewarding them differently by race, sex, national origin, and social class, in such a way as to create separate levels of oppression-a skillful terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth.
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A December 1773 advertisement for a Sons of Liberty meeting. History textbooks often gloss over — or ignore completely — the massive community organizing effort that underlay the armed rebellion against the British. In conjunction with my book, Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past , I reviewed 22 elementary, middle school, and high school texts. Fourteen were displayed at a National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) convention that I attended, while eight are approved for use in California, which has among the strictest criteria in the nation. I compared the 13 mythologies of the American Revolution discussed in my book with those perpetuated in these texts, and the results are startling.
Re-examining the Revolution
Primary Source Material
Primary Source Material On HistoryBuff.com HistoryBuff.com contains two venues of primary source material: 1) Transcripts of original newspaper articles about major events in American history.
Who Am I? A History Mystery is a fun and challenging activity from the Smithsonian's The Price of Freedom online exhibit. Who Am I? presents players with six historical characters that they have to identify using the text and image clues provided. To solve the mystery players have to match the visual artifacts to each character. Applications for Education Who Am I?
Who Am I? A History Mystery
I’ve been using Tom Daccord’s very handy Best of History Web Sites for so long, that I’ve just never thought to write about it.
Best of History Web Sites
When DocsTeach came out last fall, I mentioned how cool it looked and how it could help teachers use primary sources in the classroom. I really love the concept here.
Critical thinking and DocsTeach
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History Resources
