List of Teacher Lesson Ideas

 
Introducing Historical Research Methods
 
Historical Comparisons
 
Encounters in the New World (Up to 1607)
 
Colonization, Settlement, and Communities (1607 to 1763)
 
 
Expansion and Reform (1801 to 1861)
 
Crisis of the Union: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)
 
The Development of Modern America (1865 to 1920)
 
Modern America and the World Wars (1914 to 1945)
 
Contemporary America (1945 to Present)
 
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Introducing Historical Research Methods

Breeze History
Learning by Looking at Artifacts
Map Skills
What Is History?
What is History?: The importance of Oral History in Understanding the Impact of National and International Events on Everyday Life
 

Historical Comparisons

A Comparison of the Bill of Rights of the State of South Carolina to the Bill of Rights of the United States of America
A Comparison of Sparta and Athens to the North and South
From the Blockhouse to the Desert
Perusing Presidents
Slave Revolts Throughout the Ages
Slavery vs. Serfdom: Comparing and Contrasting Quality of Life
Space and Race at Eau Claire: Past, Present, and Future
We, the People
Were the Medieval Guilds Predecessors to the Labor Unions in the United States?
 

Encounters in the New World (Up to 1607)

Exploration and Settlement
 

Colonization, Settlement, and Communities (1607 to 1763)

The Architecture of Drayton Hall
British Soldiers Stationed in the Colonies Before the American Revolution
Changes for the Cherokees
Charter of Carolina (1663)
Establishment of the Carolinas: A Proprietary Colony
Go, Go Gullah!
The Nature of the Middle Passage
Rice Culture in South Carolina: Carolina Gold
Settlement and Development
Settling the Back Country
The Stono Rebellion
Upcountry Settlement (1750-1850)
Who Do You Trust?
 

The Revolution and the New Nation (1763 to 1815)

The Battle of Camden (1780)
Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War
The Boston What?
Christopher Gadsden: Charles Town's Own Sam Adams
Columbia
A Comparison of the Bill of Rights of the State of South Carolina to the Bill of Rights of the United States of America
The Constitution
The Emergence of Art in Early America
Federalism
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
The Founders of Taylors and Greenville County
Life with the Swamp Fox
Modern English and The Federalist Papers
View of Early Columbia
The War of 1812
We, the People
 

Expansion and Reform (1801 to 1861)

Agricultural Census Data
Am I Really Free? The Lives of Free Blacks before the Civil War
A Comparison of Sparta and Athens to the North and South
Education and Samplers in Antebellum South Carolina
Gregg at Graniteville: Industrialization
The Gullah Language and Its Contribution to South Carolina
The Lesser of Two Evils
Rice Culture in South Carolina: Carolina Gold
Slave Life in Antebellum South Carolina
Slave Revolts Throughout the Ages
Slavery: Primary Source Documents
Slavery vs. Serfdom: Comparing and Contrasting Quality of Life
The South Carolina Crisis on the Tariffs and the Issue of Nullification
South Carolina and the Canal
South Carolina Transportation
The Status of Slaves: Establishing the Economic Value of Slaves
Walnut Grove Cipher Books
 

Crisis of the Union: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)

Attack of the Hunley
Civil War
Civil War Letters Home
Did the US Constitution Contribute to the Secession of SC & the Civil War?
Impact of the Civil War
John C. Calhoun
Reconstruction
We, the People
Williams Explains Reasons for Secession
 

The Development of Modern America (1865 to 1920)

Child Labor in the Carolinas
Child Labor in South Carolina
Child Labor in South Carolina Textile Mills
A Comparison of the Bill of Rights of the State of South Carolina to the Bill of Rights of the United States of America
Daily Life of a Mill Village Child in South Carolina
De Jure Segregation in the Jim Crow South
Do You Know Where the Electric City Is?
Don’t Forget the Ladies, John
Greenville, South Carolina: Evolution of a Textile Mill and Industrial Center
How the Right to Vote Was Legally Deprived from Citizens of South Carolina
Immigration
The Industrialization and Urbanization of the Upstate of South Carolina
Inventions Bring Change
Jane Hunter
Mills in Honea Path and Belton
Native Americans: The Forgotten Minority
The Nineteenth Amendment Comes to South Carolina
On the Move to Oregon
The Spanish-American War and the Impacts of Journalism on History
Traveling Through the Immigration Station of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
We, the People
Were the Medieval Guilds Predecessors to the Labor Unions in the United States?
Why is Anderson, SC called the Electric City?
 

Modern America and the World Wars (1914 to 1945)

De Jure Segregation in the Jim Crow South
From Riches to Rags
Greenville, South Carolina: Evolution of a Textile Mill and Industrial Center
Let’s Play Ball!!, Once the Work is Done
Mills in Honea Path and Belton
Moncks Corner's Camp Porcher
The Nineteenth Amendment Comes to South Carolina
Operation Overlord – D-Day
The Strike of 1934:  Mill Owners and Workers in South Carolina during the New Deal
Rationing During World War II
Reconstruction or Destruction: The Santee Cooper Project in Berkeley County
The War at Home
Works Progress Administration and the Dock Street Theater
World War I
World War I: American Nationalism and Propaganda
World War II
World War II in the News
World War II in the Upstate
 

Contemporary America (1945 to Present)

Bomb Shelters
The Briggs Petition (Interview Project)
Civil Rights Movement: South Carolina's Part
Cold War
De Jure Segregation in the Jim Crow South
Equality Before the Law
Greenville, South Carolina: Evolution of a Textile Mill and Industrial Center
How Do We Work for Change?
January 28, 1963 - The Peaceful Integration of Clemson College by Harvey Gantt
Native Americans: The Forgotten Minority
Our Country's National Parks
Savannah River Site and the Cold War
Separate But Equal: School Desegregation in the Lowcountry
Space and Race at Eau Claire: Past, Present, and Future
The Tobacco Strike of 1945
Understanding Equality in South Carolina
We, the People