History Textbooks: “Theirs” and “Ours”

Teaching Activity PDF. By John DeRose. 4 pages.
Analysis of textbook passages from different countries, videos and books are used to explore different perspectives about the same event in history, i.e. “Philippine-American War” vs. “War of Philippine Independence”.

Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell Me

Teaching Activity PDF. By Wayne Wah Kwai Au. 5 pages.
Lesson on the history of Hawai’i and the impact of colonization and tourism.

Asian American, Imperialism, Pacific Islander, Racism & Racial Identity, US Foreign Policy

Exploring Women’s Rights: The 1908 Textile Strike in a 1st-grade Class

Teaching Activity PDF. By Dale Weiss. 3 pages.
A teacher’s reflections about a curriculum unit on women’s rights contextualizes the history of the feminist movement within the broader struggle of people working for greater equality in the United States.

Labor, Women's History

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

Daughter of Earth: Reading, Writing, and Social Class

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.

Education, Social Class, Women's History

Vietnam and Beyond: The Historic Resistance

Teaching Activity PDF. By Mike Benbow and Robin Pickering. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 18 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on opposition to the Vietnam War.

Imperialism, Social Class, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

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

Race and Membership in American History

Teaching Guide. By Alan Stoskopf.
Resources for teaching about the eugenics movement in the United States.

Racism & Racial Identity

Death in the Haymarket

Book - Non-Fiction. By James Green. 2007. 400 pages.

Labor

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Book - Nonfiction. By Howard Zinn. 2005. 702 pages.
Howard Zinn’s groundbreaking work on U.S. history. This book details the lives and facts that are rarely included in textbooks — an indispensable teacher resource.