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Charlayne Hunter’s (now Hunter-Gault) admittance to the University of Georgia -Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

Black Women Breaking Barriers

What was the impact of Lucy, Hunter, and Malone on higher education?
Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
African American History
US History since 1877
… African American History … US History since 1877 …
L to R - Nat King Cole and Orestes “Minnie” Minoso - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

Players and Runs for Homeplate

How did Black athletes resist racial discrimination and racial violence while playing their sport?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
Plague Doctor

Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present

What can we learn from the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels?
Grade Level
9-12
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12
Teaching Area
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
… US History to 1877 … US History since 1877 …
Thurgood Marshall - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

International Ripples of the Civil Rights Movement

How has the Civil Rights movement impacted people outside the United States?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
A Jewish man looking at gravestones that have been spray painted with swastikas

Anti-Semitism in America: Past & Present

How does the history of Anti-Semitism in the United States continue to impact the American Jewish community?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
… How does the history of Anti-Semitism in the United States continue to … US History since 1877 …
Tommie Smith and John Carlos at 1963 Olympics raising fists in protest - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

The Black Fists Protest

Are Black Athlete protests effective at accomplishing social change?
Grade Level
9
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
Black Americans protesting - Photo by Hirz/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Black Communism

How did the American Communist Party collaborate with Black Activists to fight for economic and social justice during the 1930’s?
Grade Level
7
Teaching Area
African American History
US History since 1877
… African American History … US History since 1877 …
L to R - Boxer Joe Louis and Fidel Castro - Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Black Activism, Cuba, and Anti-Racism

Why did the Cuban government sympathize with African Americans in the mid-late 1900s?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
US History since 1877
African American History
… US History since 1877 … African American History …
Vietnamese Children

Voices of the Vietnam War

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
US History since 1877
War & Peace
… World History since 1500 … US History since 1877 …
Mothers and children marching for school desegregation - Photo by Bettmann Collection/Getty Images

Continued Segregation In Our Education System

How did Brown v. Board of Education impact school segregation among African Americans and across American society?
Grade Level
10
Teaching Area
African American History
US History since 1877
… African American History … US History since 1877 …
melting Wedgemount Glacier

World Population

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
Science & Technology
… World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 …
The Great Wall of China

Walls and Barriers to the World

Grade Level
4-8
Teaching Area
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
… World History to 1500 … World History since 1500 …
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013

A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine

… of President Viktor Yanukovych, the surprise annexation of Crimea into Russia, ongoing fighting in the eastern regions … will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into "before" and "after," dividing society into the …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… May, historian Allen Weinstein. Weinstein is author of two books on Soviet espionage in the United States and until … Politics in the Ivory Tower (2005), and a writer for the History News Service. He is also a professor of history at the University of California at Irvine. …

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… we ought to take some time to examine this language. The History of the Term For starters, there is no universally … more enlightened, and more progressive. We knew that history was somehow on our side. By talking about modernity … laborious and the most promising. Scholars are creating books and articles—a few of which are listed in the attached …
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.

Is It Only A Game?

Review of Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012)
… will be of great interest to soccer fans and World War II history buffs alike, but also everyone in between interested … However, the extent to which Kuper problematizes Dutch history and culture in World War II through the prism of … Europe's Darkest Hour , by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012) …
W.E.B. Du Bois c. 1911

150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois

… and for equality more broadly. He published about two dozen books, hundreds of articles, several plays, and exquisite … 1935 book, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 , a history of black labor during and immediately after the … Black Lives in American History …

Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

… For those of us who study the intellectual and cultural history of the post-World War II West, it is strange that … sacrifice of world war, to the greatest prosperity in human history in less than a generation. No wonder Americans felt … them. From the good Dr. Wertham's crusade against comic books to the raft of books such as The Shook-Up Generation, …
Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll begins in the early 1950s with … you with ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll.’” Yet a much deeper history exists and a more complex set of origins. Sister … Black Lives in American History …