The Present

Whose “Terrorism”?

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 11 pages.
A role play to help high school students examine the definition of terrorism in historical and contemporary terms.

US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Whitewashing Our Past: A Proposal for a National Campaign to Rethink Textbooks

Background Reading for Teachers PDF. By Bob Peterson. 4 pages.
A critique of social studies textbooks and the rationale for a campaign to rethink them.

Education, Individuals in US History, Racism & Racial Identity

Bush II and the “War on Terror”

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 24 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on George W. Bush, the “War on Terror,” Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Patriot Act.

Democracy & Citizenship, Individuals in US History, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Camouflaged

Teaching Guide. Edited by Edwin Mayorga, Bree Picower, & Seth Rader. 2008. 188 pages.

Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World

Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson. 2002. 402 pages. Grades 4 - 12.
An extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues, plus teaching ideas, lesson plans, and rich collections of resources for classroom teachers.

US Foreign Policy

Teaching with the Levees

Teaching Guide. Edited by Margaret Smith Crocco. 2007. 104 pages.

African American, Environment & Food, Racism & Racial Identity

Workplace Issues and Collective Bargaining in the Classroom

Teaching Guide. By Linda Tubach and Patty Litwin. 2008.

Democracy & Citizenship, Labor

Brother, I’m Dying

Book - Nonfiction. By Edwidge Danticat. 2008. 288 pages.
A gripping autobiographical book, about one Haitian woman’s experience as a young immigrant and her family’s struggle to survive in the United States while fearing for those they left behind.

Immigration