History - Teach Democracy

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BRIA (Bill of Rights In Action)
Quarterly curricular magazine with timely texts and activities on current events, U.S. history, world history, and government.
Civil Conversations (CivCon)
Students engage in a structured, small-group discussion on controversial or complex issues with close reading and text analysis of multiple perspectives.
California Three Rs Project
This project focuses on the three Rs: rights, responsibility, and respect related to learning about religion and the First Amendment.

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Whip, Pillory, and Gallows: Punishment in Puritan Massachusetts
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U.S. History
Whip, Pillory, and Gallows: Punishment in Puritan Massachusetts
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Coffee and World History, The Story Behind School Lunches, How Global Entrepreneurs Shaped America’s Fast Food, FYI Civics: Tariffs
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
Rome: Republic to Empire
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/English-Language Arts
A Day in the Life
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Suppressing the Vote
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Workplace Equality for LGBT People: Bostock v. Clayton County 
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History
The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century
Small-Group Discussion
World History/Government
Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government
Role Play/Simulation
World History/U.S. History/Government
DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLES: The Arab Spring and the Challenge of Nation-Building; Purged From the Voter Rolls: Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute; Suppressing the Vote
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
LAW AND PROTECTION: Journalism Under Siege; The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; Islamic Science in the Middle Ages
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
FACING CHALLENGES: Ida B. Wells and Her Crusade for Racial Justice; The Revolutions of 1848; The Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Critics
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
DEMOCRACY IN THE BALANCE: How Democratic Was Athens?; The Northwest Ordinance and Westward Expansion; Is Democracy in Trouble?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Economics
ECONOMIC CRISIS: The Great Recession: What Were the Causes?; The Marquis de Lafayette: A Noble Revolutionary; What Caused the Great Depression and Why Did Recovery Take So Long?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
ECONOMIC CRISES: The WPA: Putting the Nation to Work in the Great Depression; A Guide to the Federal Budget Deficit and National Debt; Tulipmania and Economic Bubbles
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
TYRANNY: The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny; Nigeria: After 50 Years; Still Struggling to Be a Democracy
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
POPULATION PERILS: The “Black Death”: A Catastrophe in Medieval Europe; The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America; The Debate Over World Population: Was Malthus Right?;
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
REACTION AND REFORM: The Watergate Scandal; Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism; Land, Liberty, and the Mexican Revolution
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Economics
REVOLUTION AND CHANGE: England’s Glorious Revolution; John Maynard Keynes and the Revolution in Economic Thought; William Jennings Bryan; the “Great Commoner”
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BUILDING DEMOCRACY: The Major Debates at the Constitutional Convention; King and Parliament in Medieval England; Every New Generation
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Science
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: Are We Headed for a “Sixth Mass Extinction”?; The Columbian Exchange; What Caused Egypt’s Old Kingdom to Collapse?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
REFORM AND CHANGE: The Teapot Dome Scandal; Woodrow Wilson’s Quest to Change the World; John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS: Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History; Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe; Henry Clay: Compromise and Union
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
POLITICS: How Political Parties Began; Making It Easier to Vote vs. Guarding Against Election Fraud; The Development of Confucianism in Ancient China
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
REFORM: Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China; Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle; John Dewey and the Reconstruction of American Democracy
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government/Science
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: The Origins of Patent and Copyrights Law; Digital Piracy; Patenting Life; The Cheating Problem
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History/Government
JUSTICE: The Whiskey Rebellion and the New American Republic; Cicero: Defender of the Roman Republic; “Justice and Fairness”: John Rawls and His Theory of Justice
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
RIGHTS RECONSIDERED: Sacco and Vanzetti; Edmund Burke; Mendez v. Westminster
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
FREE MARKETS AND ANTITRUST LAW: Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations; Progressives and the Era of Trustbusting; Media Mergers and the Public Interest
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Science
MAKING A JUST SOCIETY: Stem-Cell Research: The Promise and the Pitfalls; Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?; St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good.
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
THE RULE OF LAW IN DANGEROUS TIMES: Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy; John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press; The National Security Agency’s Warrantless Wiretaps.
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION: The Scopes Trial: Who Decides What Gets Taught in the Classroom?; More Monkey Trials; Turkey: An Evolving Democracy in the Middle East
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History/Government
CENTRALIZED VS. DECENTRALIZED RULE: The Legacy of Alexander the Great; The Articles of Confederation; The European Union: Toward a “United States of Europe”?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
ECONOMICS AND DEMOCRACY: Dust Bowl Exodus; The German Weimar Republic; Outsourcing Jobs to Other Countries
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
AMERICAN INTERVENTIONS: Is Iraq on the Way to Democracy?; Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal; The Boxer Rebellion in China
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
EXECUTIVE POWER: Machiavelli and The Prince; Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants; Jackson and Indian Removal
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
RELIGION AND SOCIETY: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Colonial America; Islam Divided: The Shiites and Sunnis; Should We Take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
NATION-BUILDING: The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Europe; Different Visions for Vietnam; U.S. Involvement in Nation-Building Before Iraq
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History/Government
NATIONAL SECURITY AND FREEDOM: The Patriot Act: What is the Proper Balance Between National Security and Individual Rights?; The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom; Plato and The Republic
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
CONTROVERSIES: Three Visions for African Americans; “Forgotten Genocide”: The Destruction of the Armenians During World War I; The Bush Doctrine
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
IDEAS: Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History; Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism; Copying Music and Movies from the Internet: “Digital Piracy” and “Fair Use”
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The Iroquois Confederacy and the Great Law of Peace, Virtue and Terror in France’s First Republic, Constantine: The First Christian Emperor of Rome, FYI Civics: Executive Orders
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Emancipation Day: Past and Present; Endangered Species Act at 50 Years; The Constitution, Reconstruction, and Race-Conscious Admissions; BRIA’s Longtime Writer Carlton Martz
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
POLITICAL STRATEGIES: The Troubled Elections of 1796 and 1800; Cyrus the Great and the Creation of the Persian Empire; Free Trade, Globalization, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The ‘Business Plot’ to Overthrow FDR; The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Persons; Supreme Court Highlights
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The United States, China, and Taiwan; The Haymarket Affair; Ranked-Choice Voting: Choosing One Candidate or Many?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The Bill of (Twelve) Rights: Contingency and the Constitution; Tlaxcalan: The Indigenous Democracy of Mexico
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
BRIA: The Global Refugee Crisis; Supreme Court Highlights; Federal Agencies and Public Policy; Indonesia’s Struggle for Democracy
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Yugoslavia: A Divided Land; Mother Jones: ‘The Most Dangerous Woman in America’; What Is Seditious Conspiracy?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
BRIA: The Senate Filibuster: Abolish, Keep, or Reform?; The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley; Buddhism in China
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Jury of Your Peers; Pride Pioneer: Frank Kameny and the Early Gay Rights Movement; Brazil and the Future of the Amazon
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Hannah Arendt and the ‘Banality of Evil’; Unequal Treatment? The Constitution and Religious School Funding; Should the Federal Government Guarantee a Basic Income for All?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: American Indian Sovereignty; Police Reform After the Death of George Floyd; The Last Nuclear Treaty
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Turning Points in Presidential Campaign Advertising; Workplace Equality for LGBT People: Bostock v. Clayton County; Heian Japan and The Tale of Genji
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Haiti’s Slave Revolt and War for Independence; Remembering John Brown; What is Treason? The Aaron Burr Case
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
BRIA: The Election 1980; South Africa: Confronting the Country’s Apartheid Past; Leave or Remain: Brexit in the UK
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
BRIA: Impeachment and the Case of Andrew Johnson; The Kurds: Straddling the Map of the Middle East; ‘Every Man a King’: Huey Long’s Troubled Populism
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The Census in U.S. History; Anne Hutchinson: Midwife of Religious Freedom; 270 Votes to Win: The Electoral College in the United States
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Ida Tarbell and the Muckrakers; The Anglo-Zulu War and British Imperialism; Will the Mueller Probe End With a Constitutional Crisis?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
UNCERTAIN TIMES: Guns and School Safety: What Is the Best Way Forward?; Automation and the American Worker; The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
SCIENCE MATTERS(34:1) Who Was Hypatia of Alexandria?; Cotton Mather and Boston’s Smallpox Inoculation Fight; Global Warming and the Paris Agreement
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
FLASHPOINTS What Should the U.S. Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons?; The Great Sioux War: Land, Gold, and a Broken Treaty; The Dispute Over the South China Sea
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
CHALLENGING IDEAS(32:4)Martin Luther King and the Philosophy of Nonviolence; Vietnam Today; Free Speech on Campus: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Controversial Speech at U.S. Colleges
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
How Welfare Began in the United States
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Southern Black Codes of 1865-66
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
Background on Modern Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Did the Serbian Government Meet the Austrian Demands?
Role Play/Simulation,Research
U.S. History/Government
Voting and Elections in Early America
U.S. History/Government
The U.S. Constitution (Text)
U.S. History
The Case of the Defendant who was Bound and Gagged
World History
Bringing Democracy to Japan
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History
Marcus Garvey
U.S. History
W.E.B DuBois
U.S. History/Government
Barack Obama: The United States of America’s First Black President
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Mendez v. Westminster: Paving the Way to School Desegregation
Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Mr. Madison Needs Help
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
Confucianism or Legalism
Small-Group Discussion
World History
Two Very Different City-States: Sparta and Athens
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Watergate Scandal
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Jackie Robinson
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
King and Parliament in Medieval England
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
RELIGION AND SOCIETY: Religion, Political Power, and the Thirty Years’ War; The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century; Prayer at Government Meetings and the First Amendment
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS: Putin’s Illiberal Democracy; Harry Truman and the Election of 1948; Elections, Money, and the First Amendment
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
CRITICAL CONCERNS: Police Body Cameras and the Use of Force, Abolitionists and the Constitution, Tolerance: Voltaire and the Spirit of the Enlightenment
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
POLITICAL CONFLICT: The Election of 1912; The Great Rivalry: Disraeli vs. Gladstone; Edward Snowden, the NSA, and Mass Surveillance
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
BREAKING NEW GROUNDS : James Madison and the Bill of Rights; Hatshepsut: How a Woman Took the Throne
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
THE 1960s: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Supreme Court; Cuba at the Crossroads; Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
THE LAW: Saved From the Gallows — The Trial of Leopold and Loeb; The Great Qing Code: Law and Order During China’s Last Dynasty; The Free Exercise of Religion in America
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
LEADERSHIP: ‘Go Boldly!’: Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War; Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership; Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Politics in England
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
WAR & POLICY: A Fire Waiting to be Lit: The Origins of World War I; The War of 1812: America’s First Declared War; The War in Afghanistan: What Should America’s Policy Be?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
CONFLICTS: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Sudan; Imperialism; and the Mahdi’s Holy War; Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in Public Schools?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Queen Elizabeth I: Religion and the State; Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery; Affirmative Action in American Colleges After Fisher v. Texas
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
THE GOVERNANCE: Puritan Massachusetts: Theocracy or Democracy?; Who Was the Real Cleopatra?; How the First State Constitutions Helped Build the U.S. Constitution
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Science
THE ENVIRONMENT: Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks; Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND LABOR: The Industrial Revolution; The Pullman Strike and Boycott; American Labor Unions: Yesterday and Today
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
ORIGINS: Hamilton, Jefferson, and Their Fight for the Future of America; Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire; The Electoral College
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
HEALTH CARE REFORM: The Continuing Struggle for U.S. Health-Care Reform; The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act; Health Care: What Do Other Countries Do?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
FACING CRISES: FDR and the Banks; Munich and “Appeasement”; Unemployment and the Future of Jobs in America
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
A NEW ORDER: Simon Bolivar: Thinker; Liberator; Reformer; J.P. Morgan; the Panic of 1907; and the Federal Reserve Act; Juan Peron: Dictator or Champion of Social Justice?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
LAW: Canon Law: Medieval Europe’s Legal System; Oliver Cromwell: The Lord Protector; Calhoun and Webster: Two Visions of the Federal Union
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
REVOLUTIONARY THINKERS: Thomas Paine: America’s Most Radical Revolutionary, Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law, St. Augustine and the Role of Religion in the State
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
COMMUNISM: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, The Cuban Missile Crisis, North Korea: The Rogue Nation
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
BRIA: Picking a President: The Nomination Process Across American History; Alice Piper’s Fight for Educational Equality; Supreme Court Highlights 2024
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
BRIA: The Spanish Civil War: Prelude to World War; The BRICS and the 21st Century World Economy; The Church Committee and the Crisis of Public Distrust
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
McCulloch v. Maryland
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government/Science
BRIA: Does the Constitution Establish a Republic or a Democracy? A Supreme Court History; Jeanette Rankin: A Pioneer for Peace; AI and the Future of the World
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Martin Luther King and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Free Press vs. Fair Trial: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case.
Small-Group Discussion,Writing,Research
U.S. History
The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case.
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Journalism Under Siege: What Should Be Done to Protect Journalists?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
January 7, 2021: Newspaper Front Pages the Day After the Attack on the U.S. Capitol
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
The Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Critics
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing,Research
U.S. History
Ida B. Wells and Her Crusade for Racial Justice
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Ida Tarbell and the Muckrakers
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
Ancient History
Hypatia of Alexandria
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
Ancient History
Hatshepsut: How a Woman Took the Throne
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Harry Truman and the Election of 1948
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Haiti’s Slave Revolt and War for Independence
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
“The Greensboro Massacre: A Lesson in Truth & Reconciliation in the United States”
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government/English-Language Arts
Tolerance: Voltaire and the Spirit of the Enlightenment
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
A Fire Waiting to be Lit: The Origins of World War I
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
The War of 1812: America’s First Declared War
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
The Great Qing Code: Law and Order During China’s Last Dynasty
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
If Men Were Angels: Teaching the Constitution With The Federalist Papers
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Sudan, Imperialism, And The Mahdi’s Holy War
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and Mass Surveillance
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Science
Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
Queen Elizabeth I: Religion & the State
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
Puritan Massachusetts: Theocracy or Democracy?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government
What Should The U.S. Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Western Europe
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Politics in England
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Saved From the Gallows: The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Go Boldly!’: Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Government/English-Language Arts
Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing,Research
U.S. History
Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Free Exercise of Religion in America
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
How the First State Constitutions Helped Build the U.S.
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Election of 1912
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Did the Serbian Government Meet the Austrian Demands?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History
Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Who Was the Real Cleopatra?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Chinese Civil War: Why Did the Communists Win?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Cartoons of World War I
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Bosnian Crisis of 1908
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
World History
Which Country Was to Blame for World War I?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in Public Schools?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
FDR and the Banks
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Emancipation Day: Past and Present
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Crisis in Ukraine
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History
Why We Have Freedom of the Press
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Why Don’t More People in the U.S. Vote?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing,Research
U.S. History/Government
The People’s Right to Know
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Slavery and the Electoral College
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
Is Democracy in Decline?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
How Should We Judge Our Nation’s Founders?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Falsely Shouting Fire” The Free Press and the Courts
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Bush v Gore
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
Brown v. Board of Education
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion
U.S. History/Government
The Major Debates of the Constitutional Convention
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Affirmative Action in American Colleges After Fisher v. Texas
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Unemployment and the Future of Jobs in America
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Brazil and the Future of the Amazon
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Bill of (Twelve) Rights: Contingency and the Constitution
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Arab Spring and the Challenge of Nation-Building
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
American Indian Sovereignty
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Anne Hutchinson: Midwife of Religious Freedom
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
King Leopold’s “Heart of Darkness”
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History
Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
Ancient History
Religious Tolerance and Persecution in the Roman Empire
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Should Students Have the Right to Lead Prayers at Public School Events?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Pledge of Allegiance
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Murder of an Archbishop
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Election of 1824-25: When the House Chose the President
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Globalization and Worker Rights
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Scopes Trial: Who Decides What Gets Taught in the Classroom?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Dreyfus Affair and the Press
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Sit Down Strike!
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
William Jennings Bryan the Great Commoner
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
John Dewey and the Reconstruction of American Democracy
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Land Liberty and the Mexican Revolution
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
England Glorious Revolution
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Government
Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
“We Came to Free the Slaves”: John Brown on Trial
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
When Roman Law Ruled the Western World
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
What Caused Egypt’s Old Kingdom to Collapse?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
Ancient History
Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
How Women Won the Right to Vote
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/U.S. History/Ancient History
The Constitution: In Search of the Best Constitution
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Swedish Model: Welfare for Everyone
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Woodrow Wilson’s Quest to Change the World
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
How Political Parties Began
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
The Law of Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
King Leopold’s “Heart of Darkness”
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Education and the 14th Amendment
Role Play/Simulation
World History
The German Weimar Republic: Why Did Democracy Fail?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Sacco and Vanzetti: Were Two Innocent Men Executed?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
The Dispute Over the South China Sea
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Bringing Down an Empire: Gandhi and Civil Disobedience
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny and the Rule of Law
Small-Group Discussion
World History
St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Progressives
Small-Group Discussion
World History
John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History/Ancient History
Cicero Defender of the Roman Republic
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
The Mayflower Compact
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
World History
Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Natural Rights
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
Moussolini and the Rise of Fascism
World History
Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government
Role Play/Simulation,Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History/Government
A Brief History of Jim Crow
Small-Group Discussion,Writing
U.S. History
The Scopes Trial: Who Decides What Gets Taught in the Classroom?
Small-Group Discussion,Writing

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