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Stanford History Education Group: Invasion of Nanking
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe the difference in perception, or how cautious a nation can be, in delivering historical events that may place a nation in a negative light. With a free registration, gain access to a lesson plan...
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Stanford History Education Group: Reign of Terror
[Free Registration/Login Required] Examining bits from the "Decree Against Profiteers" and "Law of Suspects," students will learn the impact of the Committee of Public Safety's power to rule during the most intense year of the French...
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Stanford History Education Group: Nazi Propaganda
[Free Registration/Login Required] Take a look at propaganda used to gain approval of the annexation of Austria to Germany during World War II through this lesson plan and presentation.
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Stanford History Education Group: Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students corroborate an excerpt from a cuneiform tablet and a passage from the Book of Kings about Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE to determine what happened.
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Stanford History Education Group: Expansion of the Early Islamic Empire
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary sources in which learners study the documents and consider historical developments in the early Islamic Empire. Teacher materials, student materials, original documents and...
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Stanford History Education Group: Mansa Musa
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson on Mansa Musa uses primary resources for historical investigation. Includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Spanish American War
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students study the Spanish-American War by watching a documentary video, reading a telegram...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: u.s. Entry Into Wwi
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this historical inquiry lesson, students address the question, "What changed between 1914 and 1917 that caused the U.S. to enter WWI?" to corroborate a textbook account with two documents: a speech...
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Stanford History Education Group: Roman Empire and Christianity
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students investigate several sources to determine why the Roman Empire persecuted Christians. Inlcudes downloadable lesson plan, PowerPoint, original documents, teacher and student...
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Stanford History Education Group: Moctezuma and Cortes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students examine 13th Century primary source material of historical record to determine what the encounter between Moctezuma and Cortes might have really been like. With downloadable...
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Stanford History Education Group: Augustus
[Free Registration/Login Required] What kind of leader was Caesar Augustus? Chew on this question while integrating this lesson plan and presentation during classroom study on Roman history.
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Stanford History Education Group: Understanding the Black Death
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students compare two primary source documents to investigate how people experienced or understood the plague in 1348. Inlcudes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.
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Stanford History Education Group: Cleopatra
[Free Registration/Login Required] Working on determining the dependability of secondary historical resources with this lesson about Cleopatra. Students will attempt to figure out how Cleopatra died based on the resources.
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Stanford History Education Group: The Black Death in Florence
[Free Registration/Login Required] Website with "reading like a historian" lessons about the Black Death in Florence for teachers using primary resources in the classroom.
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Stanford History Education Group: Atahualpa and the Bible
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students explore and examine primary source material to answer a question about Incan Emperor, Atahualpa's meeting with Spanish conquistador, Pizarro. Includes downloadable lesson plan,...
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Stanford History Education Group: Battle of the Somme
[Free Registration/Login Required] Register with the SHEG and access this lesson plan and power point presentation featuring World War I's Battle of the Somme.
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Stanford History Education Group: First Crusade
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson designed to understand perspectives of Muslims and Christians during the First Crusade. Access primary source documents and a PowerPoint presentation to aid in discussion.
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Stanford History Education Group: Galileo
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students explore three primary sources and one New York Times article to determine if Galileo was a heretic as accused by the Inquisition. Lesson plans, PowerPoint and primary resources...
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Stanford History Education Group: The Sepoy Rebellion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan on the Sepoy Rebellion provides young scholars and teachers the materials to teach and study history using original documents as historians do.
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Progressivism
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. This unit explores perspectives on the key issues of the Progressive Era.
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Stanford History Education Group: The Middle Passage
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan on the Middle Passage includes PowerPoint presentation and primary source documents from which students explore original material.
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Stanford History Education Group: India Partition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which learners use primary sources to evaluate the plan to partition India in 1947. Lesson plan, PowerPoint and original documents are included.
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Stanford History Education Group: Appeasement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Leaders European democracies, like Britain, utilized the appeasement policy during the years during Hitler's dictatorship prior to World War II. The decision to use the policy are greatly debated still....
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Beyond the Bubble: Civil Rights Movement in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] The two letters presented here are from the archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and were written over twenty years apart. Students must read the letters...