This week we'll start with a socratic seminar on our essay question: Who Made the New Deal? Afterwords, we'll workshop our thesis...

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 wrap up our unit on the New Deal by taking a look at a variety of opinions on Roosevelt and the New Deal. We'll finish...

This week we'll finish our trial to determine "Who Killed Reconstruction?" While most textbook accounts point the finger exclusively at...

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

This week we'll focus on the strike wave of 1934 and the impact that these strikes had on the New Deal. We'll begin with a role play on...

This week we'll focus on what historians call the "First New Deal" the initial series of laws that FDR put in place in his first hundred...

At the beginning of the week we'll take part in improvisations that highlight some of the key ways Black people held and contested for...

We'll start the week by simulating an economic crisis to better understand what caused the Great Depression. Next we'll discuss why so...

After we finish our 1868 role play and find out what really happened in 1868, we'll look at how the rapid changes in Black life inspired...

This week we'll jump back into our unit on labor history starting with a role play on the 1912 Bread and Roses strike and ending with a...

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

It is midterm week! For your midterm we will be doing some reading and writing on what we've learned about immigration and race in the US...

It is midterm week! For your midterm you will be submitting your essay on "Who Freed the Slaves?" Make sure to look over the "Midterm...

This week we'll be starting a new unit on class and labor. Monday and Tuesday we'll learn about some early labor struggles, simulate a...

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

This week we'll finish our immigration unit by spending time working on our oral history projects, our group essays and reflecting on...

This week we'll be wrapping up our unit on "Who Freed the Slaves?" and preparing for our midterm essay. At the beginning of the week...

This week we'll be wrapping up our immigration unit by working on two final assessments: 1) a group immigration essay around the...

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...