The Nietz Old Textbook Collection is a collection of 19th Century schoolbooks in the Untied States. The collection is used by faculty and students.
This online textbook is designed for grade 8 and up and covers all of North Carolina history, from the arrival of the first people some 12,000 years ago to the present. There are eleven parts, organized chronologically, a collection of primary sources, readings, and multimedia that can be rearranged to meet the needs of the classroom. Special web-based tools aid reading and model historical inquiry, helping students build critical thinking and literacy skills.
Containing more than 50 articles from the award-winning Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine and over 40 lesson plans, this multidisciplinary Educator Notebook will enrich your exploration of North Carolina and American history with diverse perspectives. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.
Students will learn about Princeville, NC, the oldest town in the United States incorporated entirely by African Americans. Students will learn about the challenges that faced newly freed slaves.
In this lesson, students will analyze editorial cartoons that will enable them to explain the abuses of big business and determine the effects of their abuses. Students will identify the role of labor unions in
American society and better understand the role of government in the free enterprise system.
In this activity, students examine a photograph and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
In this lesson, students will analyze three different speeches from the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Students will be allowed to choose between three different speakers (JFK, MLK, and Malcolm X) in order to decipher different views on civil rights and liberties in America.
Throughout the Great Depression, the federal government employed photographers to document the need for New Deal programs and the extent of these programs' successes. Today, through the Internet, students can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times.
In this lesson, students investigate the impact of the Dust Bowl and subsequent mass migrations to California. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will conduct research about one of the many artists that were working in the 1930s. Students will create a report based on their research findings.
In this lesson, students will learn about conditions of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and will consider storytellling and persuasion in images.
In this lesson, students will learn about conditions of the Dust Bowl through song and examine one example of social protest through music.
In this lesson, students will understand examples of persuasive language and will learn about conditions in the Dust Bowl region in the mid-1930s by examining a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a letter written by farmer Caroline Henderson.
In this activity, students examine a series of photographs and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the sources and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
In this activity, students study an image from the women's suffrage movement and answer a series of questions.
In this lesson, students will use multiple sources to develop arguments about the effectiveness of FDR's Relief, Recovery and Reform programs toward environmental preservation.
In this activity, students study a photograph and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
In this activity students read letters from ordinary people to government leaders in the Roosevelt Administration. Then they interpret the range of attitudes about the changing role of the federal government during the New Deal. The letters for this activity all contain reading supports and teachers can differentiate this activity for different levels of learners by choosing which letters to use in the activity.
A chapter from The American Yawp open source history textbook focusing on, "The Great Depression."
In this activity, students study a series of photographs from the Depression era and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
Reviewing the causes and then examining some of the hardships, impacts, of the Great Depression during Herbert Hoover's presidency. Then preview Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal,which will be the next area of focus.