Building Personal Connections to the Past
In a course called 19th century movements for social change, my students are preparing for their Anti-Slavery Convention. This is part of a unit on the abolition movement, the mother of all movements in the US. Early on in the unit, the students learn...
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Thinking like a historian?
In the essay "Examining the Reputation of Columbus" Jack Weatherford writes, “Christopher Columbus' reputation has not survived the scrutiny of history, and today we know that he was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the discoverer of Great...
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Social Studies and Practice as Historians
Worlds Collides, a combined 9th and 10th Grade Social Studies Class, is an exploration of the indigenous people of Central America and the Caribbean and the eventual clash with European aggressors. Students are digging in to both primary and secondary sources to...
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