U.S. History: Reconstruction to Modern America
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Abraham Lincoln, His Impact, and Reconstruction Plans to Bind the Nation
8th Grade Social Studies
Created by Kristin Risdahl, Knox County Schools -
American Citizenship 1865 to 1965
High School U.S. History, U.S. Government, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
The Emancipation Proclamation and Its Connection to the Thirteenth Amendment
8th grade Social Studies, Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Freedmen's Bureau
5th and 8th grade U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Johnson's Impeachment: Yae or Nay?
High School U.S. Government & A.P. U.S. History
Created by Barbara Marks (Watertown High School) and Taylor McDaniel (Whitwell Middle School) -
Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment
5th and 8th Grade Social Studies and English/Language Arts
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Voting Rights in the Reconstruction Era
8th Grade Social Studies and High School U.S. History
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Tennessee
High School African American History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
African American Medical Recognition
High School African American History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
Memphis - The Rebuilding of a Modern City in the Aftermath Yellow Fever
High School Tennessee History and English/Language Arts
Created by Mark Scott, Bellevue Middle School (Shelby County Schools) -
Crossing the Veil: A Young W.E.B. DuBois in Rural Tennessee
High School U.S. History, A.P. U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Barbara Marks (Watertown High School), Taylor McDaniel (Whitwell Middle School), and Teaching with Primary Sources--MTSU -
Tennessee Farmers and Tennessee's Agriculture
5th Grade Social Studies, Tennessee History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
Bass Street, Reconstruction Communities, and Memory
8th and High School Social Studies, U.S. History, Tennessee History, and African American History
Created by Connie Fink and Anna Stern, University School of Nashville
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Manifest Destiny: War on the Plains
8th & 11th grade U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Aaron Walls, Christiana Middle School (Rutherford County) -
Myth of the Vanishing Race
8th grade Social Studies, 9th-12th English
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Citizenship for American Indians
High School U.S. History, Government, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Elimination Through Forced Assimilation: Native American Boarding Schools
High School U.S. History
Created by Rhyder Cowart, Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
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Industrial Revolution
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
Analyzing "The Gospel of Wealth"
High School U.S. History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Science and Technology: Then and Now
8th & 11th grade Social Studies, English Language Arts
Created by Rob Hooper, Daniel McKee Alternative School (Rutherford County) -
Wright Brothers' Flying Evolution
5th-8th Social Studies, Science, English Language Arts
Created by Perry Louden, Jr., Rockvale Middle School (Rutherford County) -
Invention of the Telephone
5th Social Studies & 8th Computer Technology
Created by Perry F. Louden, Jr., Rockvale Middle School (Rutherford County) -
Inventors and Innovations
5th Grade Social Studies, 8th Computer Technology
Created by Perry F. Louden, Jr., Rockvale Middle School (Rutherford County) -
Social Costs to Industrial Revolution
5th & High School Social Studies, U.S. History, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
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Highlighting Imagery of the Gilded Age
High School U.S. History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
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Teaching the Labor Movement Thematically
High School U.S. History, African American History
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Critically Analyzing Visual Vocabulary: Iconic Images - Jacob Riis
High School U.S. History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
Rosenwald Schools
5th Grade Tennessee History and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU
This is an adaptation for 5th Grade of the high school lesson plan, "Education Reform During the Progressive Era and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South" -
Education Reform During the Progressive Era and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South
9th-12th grade US History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
Two Sides of the Same Coin - Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois on Education
High School U.S. History, English Language Arts
Created Will Kelley, Kirby High School (Shelby County Schools) -
The Devil Baby: A Story of Immigration and America
High School U.S. History & Geography
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Life in America for "New" Immigrants
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created Barbara Marks, Watertown High School (Wilson County Schools) -
The Land of Opportunity vs. Nativism
High School U.S History and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Immigration: A Case Study on Multiple Perspectives and Diverse Formats
8th Grade Social Studies, High School U.S. History, and English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?": A Comparison in American Culture
5th – 8th grade Language Arts, Social Studies
Created by Rebecca Byrd,New Center Elementary (Sevier County Schools) -
Triangle Factory Fire
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
Childhood Lost: Child Labor in the United State
5th and 11th grade U.S. History
Created by Rebecca Byrd, New Center Elementary (Sevier County Schools) -
Women's Suffrage in the West
5th, 8th, HS Social Studies, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
Civil Disobedience and the National Woman's Party
5th and High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
A More Perfect Union: Women's Suffrage and the Constitution
9th-12th grade U.S. History, Government, Civics
Created by Rebecca Byrd, New Center Elementary (Sevier County Schools) -
Mountain Dew: Prohibition in America
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources--MTSU -
The Progressive Movement: Life as a Muckraker
9th-12th grade US History and English/Language Arts
Created by Victor Bright, Cane Ridge High School (Metro Nashville Public Schools)
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America and World War I
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Victor Bright, Cane Ridge High School (Metro Nashville) -
African Americans in Military Service
High School English/Language Arts and African American History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
Lesson Plan: The Use of Wartime Rhetoric in Mobilizing Citizens
High School U.S. History, Government, Art
Created by Delaina Rhodes, J. Frank White Academy
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Frances Perkins in the Media
High School U.S. History & Geography
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
"This Land Is Your Land" and the Power of Folk Songs
5th Grade Social Studies, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Critically Analyzing Visual Vocabulary: Iconic Images - Dorothea Lange
High School U.S. History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
New Deal Critics
High School U.S. History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
History Honchos - Roosevelt's New Deal
5th grade Social Studies and English Language Arts
Created by Shannon Harris, Monroe County Schools -
Investigating an Icon of the Great Depression: the Migrant Mother
5th and High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
Comparing & Contrasting Communities: Cumberland Homesteads, TN & Skyline Farms, AL
High School U.S. History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
Skyline Farms, Alabama: A New Deal Community
4th-6th Grade Social Studies, English, Visual Arts
This lesson activity corresponds to both Tennessee and Alabama curriculum standards.
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Exploring Skyline Farms, Alabama Through Oral History
7th-12th Grade Visual Arts, 11th grade Social Studies, 12th Grade US Government
This lesson plan corresponds to Alabama curriculum standards.
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Exploring FSA Photography & Photojournalism: Gee's Bend, Alabama
8th Grade English, High School U.S. History, English
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
FSA Photography: Creating a Local Archive
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
The Big Picture: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority in Photographs
5th grade Social Studies, high school U.S. History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
TVA Opportunities for African Americans
High School African American History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
Tennessee Farmers and Tennessee's Agriculture
5th Grade Social Studies, Tennessee History, English/Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
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WWII Homefront In TN: New Deal Programs During WWII
In unit one of the WWII Homefront In Tennessee curriculum, learn about how key New Deal programs created infrastructure that was vital to the war effort and had widespread impacts on life in the state. The unit includes activities, historical background, and resources. -
WWII Homefront in TN: Tennesseans at Home
In unit two of the WWII Homefront in Tennessee curriculum, explore the contributions and sacrifices of average civilians as the nation shifted its economic attention to supporting the war effort. The unit includes activities, historical background, and resources. -
WWII Homefront in TN: Tennesseans at War
In unit three of the WWII Homefront in TN, explore how the state was used for a variety of military purposes from housing POWs to training soldiers. The unit includes activities, historical background, and resources. -
WWII Homefront in TN: Social, Economic, and Political Changes in Wartime and Post-war TN
In the final unit of the WWII Homefront in TN, explore the widespread changes and impact that the war effort had on Tennessee’s economy; the role of Tennessean Cordell Hull in the formation of the United Nations; Governor Prentice Cooper’s 1944 Committee on Postwar Rehabilitation of Veterans; the Columbia Race Riot of 1946; and postwar urbanization, industry, and education. -
African American Involvement in WWII
High School U.S. History, English/Language Arts
Created by Joan Lange, Pope John Paul II High School (Hendersonville, TN) -
Oral Histories and Historical Memory: The Experiences of Soldiers in the Second World War
High School U.S. History, African American History, Tennessee History, World History and Geography
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
The Double V Campaign
High School U.S. History, African American History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Choosing the Secret City: The Creation and Importance of Oak Ridge, TN
5th Grade Social Studies, High School U.S. History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Displacement & Oak Ridge, Tennessee
High School U.S. History & Geography, World History & Geography, Tennessee History
Created by Colbi Layne Hogan, MTSU Center for Historic Preservation -
World War II and the Atomic Bomb News Project
High School U.S. History, World History, English Language Arts
Created by Brandi Love, Kirby High School (Shelby County Schools)
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Palmer Raids and the Red Scare
High School U.S. History, World History, English/Language Arts
Created Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Investigating the Relationship Between Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur
High School U.S. History, World History
Created by Brandi Love, Kirby High School (Shelby County Schools) -
Cold War Veterans
Grades 5-11 Social Studies/U.S History, English Language Arts
Created by Jennifer Lange, East Hickman Intermediate School (Hickman County Schools) -
Student Anti-War Protest—Analyzing Tinker v. Des Moines
High School U.S. History and U.S. Government
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
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Back to Africa Movement: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington
High School U.S. History, English Language Arts
Created Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Jim Crow Laws and African American Discrimination
6-8th, 9th-12thgrade American History, English/Language Arts, African American History
Created by Matt Collier, R.T. Fisher Alternative School (Sumner County Schools) -
The Media and 20th Century Race Riots: Causes and Consequences
High School U.S. History, Tennessee History
Created by Joel Covington, West End Middle School (Metro Nashville Schools) -
Claiming Space: Jim Crow and the American Road Trip
High School U.S. History & Geography, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources – MTSU -
Songs of the Labor Movement
High School U.S. History and Government, Government and Civics, Contemporary Issues, and African American History
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources–MTSU -
The Road to Brown v. Board of Education
High School U.S. History, African American History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Highlander Folk School
Fifth and High School Social Studies, U.S. History, Tennessee History, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
The Clinton Twelve
High School U.S. History, African American History, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU -
The Little Rock Nine
High School U.S. History, and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Comparing Experiences— the Clinton Twelve and the Little Rock Nine
High School U.S. History, African American History, English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources - MTSU -
Civil Rights Movement Strategies—Non-Violent Direct Action
5th grade Social Studies and English Language Arts
Created by Teaching with Primary Sources-MTSU
