Choices Program, Brown University
The Choices Program: History and Current Events
This page engages students in international issues. Curricular resources and instructional programs bring international public policy to life. Students engage in research and high-level thinking activities that revolve around what is in...
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PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Yearning to Breathe Free: Muckrakers and Activism [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that leads learners through an examination of the role of muckrakers in the development of investigative journalism. Students work to identify...
Other
New York Discovery and Settlement
Gain an understanding of the settlement of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Dragonwngs
Published in 1975, this young adult fiction novel explores a chinese immigrant's life in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. Read about the other characters and important themes in this informative site.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: From the Countryside to the City
The growth of cities was rapid in the last half of the 19th century. Read about the good things and bad things that were a result of this urbanization.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Center: Teaching the American 20s
Thematic overview of 1920s America that considers the shifts that took place in American society after World War I. Focuses on changing perspectives toward labor, capitalism, women, and immigration, as well as on the American reaction to...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the Water: Maritime Nation: Shipwrecks
Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material,...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Postwar Blues and Reds
This tutorial looks at post-World War I America and the disturbing events that took place in 1919 and 1920, for example, racial discrimination, the KKK, backlash against immigrants, the Red Scare, etc. A PDF file of the tutorial is...
Curated OER
Mother at Funeral of Her Murdered Daughter. Photo:
An excellent in-depth report from NPR that examines immigration issues in the United States today and its affect on America's economy. Delves into the debate Congress is having over proposed new immigration law.
Curated OER
Confirmation Class of Miami's Oldest Synagogue, 1931
The National Humanities Center offers a comprehensive site chronicles the history of antisemitism and assimilation that made up the Jewish Experience in America. Site discusses Jewish immigration and status in society.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Barlow's Map, 1785
An English facsimile of a map issued by Joel Barlow in Paris (1787) of the area north of the Ohio River, showing the essential parts of a map with his proposals to induce immigration, but the legends are turned into English from the...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: The Palmer "Red Raids"
Students discuss the rights of non-citizens in this lesson plan, which is based on Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's push to deport alien "reds" in 1919. These were immigrants believed to have radical political views and to...
Other
Teaching Tennessee History: Lesson Plans for the Classroom Volume Vii [Pdf]
Between 1860 and 1910, America began to see an increase in the number of immigrants coming to America for a better life, religious freedom, and a brighter future for their families. It is estimated that about twenty-three million...