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Free Classroom Materials

Below is a list of free classroom materials we've made over the last couple years.

New Reading Like a Historian lessons
  •  Senior Prank
  •  Intro to the Work of Historians: Biddy Mason
  •  Intro to Lateral Reading with Reconstruction Sources 
  •  Evaluating Photographs
  •  Kingdom of Meroë 
  •  Samurai
  •  The Glorious Revolution  
  •  Burr-Hamilton Duel
  •  Chumash Revolt 
  •  Fugitive Slave Act 
  •  Overland Trails 
  •  Biddy Mason
  •  Frances Rollin Whipper
  •  Emancipation
  •  Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
  •  Verifying Historical Claims on Social Media
  •  Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons
  •  Camilla Massacre of 1868
  •  Historical Photos of Chinese Railroad Workers
  •  Battle of Little Bighorn
  •  Great Railroad Strike of 1877
  •  Tribal Land Policies
  •  Historical Chinatown Photos
  •  Russian Civil War
  •  Angel Island
  •  First Wave of Mexican Migration
  •  Marcus Garvey
  •  Historical Photos of African Americans
  •  The Liberator and the Black Press
  •  City Pool Desegregation 
  •  Zoot Suit Riots
  •  Women's Movement in the 20th Century
  •  Dennis and Yates
  •  Chicano Student Walkouts of 1968
  •  The 1974 Puerto Rican Riots
  •  Farmworker Movement (coming soon!)
  •  The Black Power Movement
  •  Jim Crow Era OUT
  •  Watergate
  •  Pardon of Richard Nixon SAC
  •  Zapatista Uprising

New Beyond the Bubble History Assessments
  •  Atahualpa and de Soto
  •  Florentine Codex
  •  Boston Massacre
  •  Federalists vs. Antifederalists
  •  Election of 1860
  •  Frederick Douglass Wikipedia
  •  Lee's Testimony
  •  Colfax Massacre
  •  Reconstruction
  •  Reconstruction Source Evaluation
  •  Verifying Historical Claims on TikTok
  •  Albert Parsons Autobiography
  •  Bimetallism
  •  Grandfather Clause
  •  Chinatown Image 
  •  Tribal Land Policies
  •  Federal Labor Relations
  •  Paris Exposition
  •  UNIA vs. NAACP
  •  20th Century Spain
  •  U.S. Policies on Mexican Migration
  •  Dennis v. U.S.
  •  U.S.-China Relations
  •  Cuban Missile Crisis Photograph
  •  Vietnam War
  •  Women's Liberation 
  •  Watergate Testimony
  •  Gasoline Lines

New Reading Like a Historian Spanish language translations
  •  Senior Prank 
  •  Aztec Encyclopedia
  •  The Glorious Revolution
  •  Chumash Revolt of 1824
  •  Emancipation
  •  Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
  •  Intro to Lateral Reading with Reconstruction Sources
  •  Frances Rollin Whipper
  •  Verifying Historical Claims on Social Media
  •  Camilla Massacre of 1868 
  •  Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons
  •  Great Railroad Strike of 1877
  •  Great Plains Homesteaders
  •  Hawaiian Annexation
  •  Historical Photographs of African Americans
  •  First Wave of Mexican Migration 
  •  Prohibition
  •  Sacco and Vanzetti
  •  City Pool Desegregation
  •  NAACP Letters
  •  Zoot Suit Riots
  •  Little Rock Nine
  •  Women's Movement in the 20th Century
  •  Dennis and Yates
  •  Farmworker Movement (coming soon!)
  •  Jim Crow Era OUT
  •  AIDS Crisis
  •  Zapatista Uprising

New Civic Online Reasoning Materials
  •  Classroom Posters in English and Spanish
         - Lateral Reading classroom poster
         - Click Restraint classroom poster
         - Attention Conservation classroom poster
  •  Teaching Click Restraint curriculum collection
  •  Module for High School
  •  Module for Middle School
  •  Evaluating Videos Tasks
  •  Webpage Comparison Tasks
         - Criminal Justice Reform Parallel
         - Football Concussions Parallel
  •  Professional Resource: Civic Online Reasoning in Your Teaching Context
  •  Professional Resource: Civic Online Reasoning Current Events Template
  •  Professional Resource: Locating Examples of Online Sources for Instruction