This week we'll learn about the Black Panther Party and the FBI's CounterIntelligence Program (COINTELPRO) that targeted Civil Rights...

This week we'll look at the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power by examining the key events that radicalized activists in the...

This week we'll examine the two largest Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the...

We'll begin this week by finishing Freedom Song to get a better sense of SNCC's first organizing project in Mississippi and how that...

We'll begin this week by looking at the organizations that made the Civil Rights Movement and focus on the key debates within...

Welcome back! We'll start our investigation of the Civil Rights Movement this week by sharing our prior knowledge and interrogating some...

This week we'll be discussing the New Deal and the Great Depression. We'll begin by looking at class, race, and ideology and thinking...

We'll start the week off by looking at the different strategies early activists used to fight the Jim Crow system. At the end of the week...

This week we'll wrap up our unit on Reconstruction and look at the birth of Jim Crow, the caste system that was implemented after the...

This week we'll use the knowledge we gained from our "Who Killed Reconstruction?" Trial to write a collective essay on the same theme....

This week we'll look at the end of Reconstruction and host a trial to determine "Who Killed Reconstruction?" While most textbook accounts...

First, we'll write a piece of historical fiction — a narrative based off of the Reconstruction improvisations we watched and performed...

This week we'll start to look at the reverberations of 1868 — how do the new state constitutions and the right to vote for Black men...

After we find out what really happened in 1868, we'll begin to look at how the rapid changes in Black life inspired other social...

We'll start a new role play this week that takes us through the historic conventions that occurred across the South starting in 1868....

After finishing up our role play on the Sea Islands we'll explore the brief, but consequential years of Presidential Reconstruction....

After completing our end-of-unit reflection on Tuesday, we'll move onto our new unit about Reconstruction this week. We'll start the unit...

For the next two weeks we'll be wrapping up our unit on "Who Freed the Slaves?" and writing our essay. The first week we'll host a...

This week we'll be focusing on the question: Who transformed the purpose of the Civil War? As we've discussed, although the war was...

This week we'll be focusing on Lincoln. We'll start with a role play on the election of 1860 and end the week with two key readings. The...