Immigration

Hunger on Trial: An Activity on the Irish Potato Famine and Its Meaning for Today

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 5 pages.
Role play in the form of a trial to determine who was responsible for the death of Irish peasants during the potato famine.

Immigration, Social Class

The Draft Riot Mystery

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 9 pages.
Students are invited to solve a mystery, using historical clues, about the real story of the Draft Riots.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery, Social Class, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line: A Role Play on the Origins of the Modern High School

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 13 pages.
A role play on the origins of the modern high school.

Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Immigration, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class

One Country! One Language! One Flag!

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 3 pages.
Discussion questions and teaching ideas for examining the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the political milieu in which it was written.

Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Immigration

Socialists and Wobblies

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 13 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the labor movement at the turn of the century.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Labor

Servitude and Rebellion

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olsen-Raymer. 15 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 3 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the role and dissent of indentured servants in American colonial history.

Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Labor, Social Class

The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration

Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 2006. 160 pages.
Lessons for teaching about the history of US-Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

Immigration, Latino, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

BRIDGE: Popular Education Resources for Immigrant and Refugee Community Organizers

Teaching Guide. By The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 2004.

Immigration

500 Years of Chicana Women’s History

Book - Nonfiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 2007. 340 pages.
Stories and photos of Mexican-American women in politics, labor, art, health, and more.

Civil Rights Movements, Immigration, Latino, Women's History

The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States

Book - Nonfiction. Edited by Edwidge Danticat. 2001.
Thirty-three essays and poems describing the Hatian Émigré experience.

Immigration