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Foreword | |
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Introduction to the First Edition | |
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Introduction to the Second Edition | |
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Introduction to the Third Edition | |
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Exploration of the New World | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Venturing into the Unknown | |
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Selected Explorers | |
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We Are All Explorers | |
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Rate the Mate | |
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Does the End Justify the Means? | |
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What Made Them Tick? | |
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What Would You Think? | |
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Skippers' Yarns | |
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If Columbus Had Stayed Home | |
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The Colonists | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Who Came and Why? | |
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New England Colonies | |
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Middle Colonies | |
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Southern Colonies | |
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The Colonial Frontier | |
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Writing the Mayflower Compact | |
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Town Meeting in Plymouth | |
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Colonial Norms and Values | |
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Grain Buffet | |
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Colonial Survival Stories | |
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Interviewing the Colonists | |
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Panel of Experts | |
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Rewriting History | |
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The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Events Leading to the Declaration of Independence | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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The War | |
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Culminating Questions about the American Revolution | |
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Choosing Independence, Part 1 | |
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Choosing Independence, Part 2 | |
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Choosing Independence, Part 3 | |
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Choosing Independence, Part 4 | |
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Taking a Stand | |
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How Angry Would You Get? | |
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Read the Declaration of Independence | |
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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Articles of Confederation | |
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Constitutional Convention and Ratification | |
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The Constitution | |
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The Bill of Rights | |
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Ready for Change | |
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A New Constitution | |
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How Good Are You at Compromising? | |
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Debates | |
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Happy Birthday, Constitution | |
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Rights and Responsibilities | |
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Establishing the New Nation | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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George Washington's Term of Office | |
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Events under the John Adams Administration | |
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Thomas Jefferson's Administration | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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The Monroe Doctrine | |
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Selecting a Cabinet | |
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Upon His Retirement | |
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Improvisations | |
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Debates | |
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Political Party Campaign | |
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What Would You Do? How Would You Feel? | |
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Using Power | |
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Expansion and the Frontier | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Manifest Destiny and the Pioneer Spirit | |
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The Acquisition of New Territories | |
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Pioneer Life | |
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Native Americans | |
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What Can You Do? | |
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Where Lies the Truth? | |
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What Would They Say? | |
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The Trail of Tears | |
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Weighing What to Take | |
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Choices | |
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Starting Over | |
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Survival Manual | |
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Law Enforcers versus Lawbreakers | |
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Vigilante Justice | |
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Tall Tales | |
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The Civil War | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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The Slave Experience | |
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Differences That Grew between the North and the South | |
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Events That Led to the Civil War | |
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The Civil War | |
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Spoon Fashion | |
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Classroom Writing | |
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Could You Be an Abolitionist? | |
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How Important Is Freedom to You? | |
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The Webster-Hayne Debate | |
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Stagecoach Quartet | |
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The Dred Scott Decision | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debate | |
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Secession | |
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Reading Aloud | |
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Point of View Questionnaire | |
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Writing about Slavery | |
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Using Movies in Class | |
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Reconstruction | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Political Issues | |
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Social Issues | |
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Reflections on the War | |
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How to Treat the South | |
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Would Things Be Different If ...? | |
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Adjusting to Change | |
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On Fear | |
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Interviewing the People | |
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"O Captain! My Captain!" | |
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Life Across the United States, 1865-1900 | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Innovations That Changed American Life, 1865-1900 | |
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Rural Life, 1865-1900 | |
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Life in the Cities, 1865-1900 | |
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Time | |
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Necessity and Inventions | |
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What's Left to Invent? | |
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Progress or Problem? | |
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"Modern" Round Robin | |
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The Industrial Revolution | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Mass Production and the Factory System | |
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The Growth of Corporations | |
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Labor Unions | |
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Working on an Assembly Line | |
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Efficiency Experts | |
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How Strikes Affect People's Lives | |
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What Will You Do? | |
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Deciding on Demands | |
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Business Ethics | |
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Union versus Management | |
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Fair and Reasonable | |
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Rating the Industrial Revolution | |
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Immigration | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Why and How Immigrants Came to the United States | |
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The Immigrant Experience in the United States | |
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Laws Affecting Immigrants | |
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Freestyle Writing | |
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Role-Playing | |
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Making Choices | |
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A New Start | |
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Illegal Aliens | |
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Problem Solving | |
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Discussing Feelings | |
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Multiple-Choice Exercise-Problems of Immigrants | |
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A Multicultural Class | |
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Debates Dealing with Immigration Today | |
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Images of Immigration | |
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Culminating Activity-International Fair | |
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The United States Becomes a World Power | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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Panama Canal | |
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Steps into World Involvement | |
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World War I | |
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Foreign Policy Hearings | |
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What Is Your Foreign Policy? | |
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Find the Facts | |
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Civilians at War | |
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If We Had Stayed Home | |
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The Twenties | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Why the Twenties Roared | |
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The Other Side of the Twenties | |
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Prohibition | |
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The Stock Market Crash | |
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History Repeats Itself | |
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Sound Effects | |
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Time Capsule | |
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Seeing the Opposite Point of View | |
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Roundtable Discussion about Prohibition | |
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You Are the Jury | |
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Investing in the Stock Market | |
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The Great Depression | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Effects on People | |
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The New Deal | |
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Continue the Story | |
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How Would You Feel if ...? | |
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Meeting with President Hoover | |
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Experiencing the Depression | |
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Viewing Pictures | |
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Town Meeting | |
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New Deal Hit Parade | |
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World War II | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Events That Led to Our Involvement in the War | |
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The Home Front | |
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Overseas | |
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Japanese Internment Camps | |
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The End of the War | |
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Group Decision Making | |
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Reaction Register | |
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Panel Discussion on Alternatives | |
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Public Service Advertising Campaign | |
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Dear Mr. President | |
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Election Campaign of Roosevelt versus Dewey | |
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Hiroshima No Pika | |
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The Postwar Years, 1945-1959 | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Return to Peacetime | |
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Culture during the Fifties | |
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Civil Rights during the Fifties | |
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Fear of Communism | |
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Foreign Affairs | |
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Gl Bill of Rights | |
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Congressional Committees | |
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NATO Debate | |
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Mediation | |
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Fallout-Shelter Decisions | |
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Conforming | |
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Debates | |
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The Fifties Jukebox | |
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To Confess or Not to Confess | |
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Culminating Activity-The Dinner Party | |
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The Sixties | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Moving into the Sixties | |
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The Kennedy Years | |
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The Johnson Years: Domestic Accomplishments | |
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Civil Rights in the Sixties | |
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Vietnam: A War at Home and Abroad | |
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The Space Program | |
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How Life Changed | |
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Moving into the Sixties | |
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"Ask Not...." | |
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A Great Society | |
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Checklist for a Great Society | |
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Stuck in an Elevator | |
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How Far Would You Go? | |
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"Sixties-In" | |
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The Seventies | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Vietnam Continued: A War at Home and Abroad | |
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Social Issues and Movements | |
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Nixon's Presidency and Watergate | |
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The Carter Presidency | |
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Trial of Lieutenant William Calley | |
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Sexual Stereotypes | |
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Debates on Issues of the Seventies | |
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Reverse Discrimination? | |
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Identifying Feelings | |
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Multicultural Multimedia Celebration | |
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The Eighties and Nineties: Ending the Twentieth Century | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Events at Home | |
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Iran-Contra | |
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The Persian Gulf War | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Independent Decision Making | |
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What's Wrong Here? | |
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Return of the Hostages | |
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Columbine-Never Again! | |
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I Didn't Know That! | |
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Taking Responsibility | |
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Facing the Twenty-First Century | |
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Project List | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Terrorism | |
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New Technology | |
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Economic Challenges | |
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Health Issues | |
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Protecting the Environment | |
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Social Issues | |
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Political Issues | |
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9/11 Remembrances | |
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Developing Foreign Policy | |
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Fix It | |
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Is This Fair? | |
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Wireless New World | |
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What Can You Do about It? | |
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Burning CDs | |
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Protecting the Environment | |
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Help Wanted-A TV Program | |
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New Age Family | |
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Classroom Visit | |
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Child Labor | |
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Interviewing the Experts | |
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Interaction with Senior Citizens | |
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Who Gets the Heart Transplant? | |
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Advice for Future Generations | |
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Difficult to Resolve | |
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Social Action Groups | |
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Where Should the Money Go? | |
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Wish List for the Twenty-First Century | |
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Current Events | |
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Expressing Opinions | |
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Cooperative Learning | |
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News Broadcast | |
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Classroom Writing | |
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Political Cartoons | |
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Skill Honing | |
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Debate | |
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News as Research | |
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Know Your Newspaper | |
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Term Papers | |
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Choosing an Appropriate Topic | |
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Locating Information | |
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Writing an Outline | |
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Taking Notes | |
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Revising the Outline | |
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Writing a Rough Draft | |
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Writing the Final Draft | |
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A Special Classroom Library: Beyond Reference | |
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Introducing a Unit | |
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Enhancing Lessons | |
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Using Children's Picture Books | |
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Independent Silent Reading | |
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Presentations | |
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Historical Magazines | |
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Lending System | |
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Guidelines for Book Reports Based on Historical Fiction | |
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Guidelines for Book Reports Based on Biographies | |
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Book List for U.S. History | |
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Explorers | |
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Early Colonial Life | |
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American Revolution | |
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Pioneers and Westward Expansion | |
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Slavery and the Civil War | |
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Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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Immigration | |
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Industrial Revolution, Early Urban Life, and Labor | |
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World War I | |
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The Great Depression | |
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World War II | |
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Civil and Constitutional Rights | |
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Vietnam | |
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The Nineties and into the Twenty-First Century | |
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Debates | |
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About the Authors | |