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Lectures from Completed Summer Seminars

Each lecture opens as a PDF file in a new window. To download a lecture, right-click the link and choose "Save Target As..." File sizes are in parentheses after lecture titles.

Lectures below are Adobe Acrobat PDF files. To read PDF files, you need the free Adobe Reader software, available from the Adobe Web site.

• (Buhle, 2005) Oral History: A Way to See the World (53 KB)
• (Dublin, 2005) The Industrial Revolution in the United States (99 KB)
• (Dublin, 2005) The Industrial Revolution in the United States: Historiography and Methods (84 KB)
• (Edmunds, 2005) Indigenous Threads: Weaving a New Fabric of American History (136 KB)
• (Edmunds, 2005) Teaching Native American History: A Topical Approach (89 KB)
• (Hall, 2003) The Canon of American Constitutional History and the Virtues of a Comparative Perspective (160 KB)
• (Hall, 2003) Twenty-One Tips to Teaching About Constitutions and Rights in American History (173 KB)
• (Jones, 2004) Five Suggestions for Teaching Working Class History in a Classless Society (47 KB)
• (Jones, 2004) Out of Wisconsin: The Theory and Practice of Labor History (73 KB)
• (Lindemeyer, 2003) The Progressive Era (211 KB)
• (McAlister, 2004) After 9/11: Images of Us (82 KB)
• (Mjagkij, 2003) The Film Industry in the United States: A Brief Historical Overview (162 KB)
• (Mjagkij, 2003) Teaching American History Through Hollywood Films (145 KB)
• (Mjagkij, 2003) Appendices for "Teaching American History Through Hollywood Films" (1.7 MB)
• (Schubert, 2003) American Military History: Approaches and Issues (352 KB)

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Lesson Plans From Completed Summer Seminars

History Lesson Curriculum Guide
(PDF file ~ 50 KB)
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Military History

• The American Revolution
  • The American Revolution
  • Liberty Rhetoric
• War of 1812
• Fort Howard
• The Civil War
• World War I
• World War II
  • World War II
  • Blacks in World War II
• The Cold War
• Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Vietnam War Oral Histories
• September 11, 2001
  • 9-11 and Propaganda
  • The Constitution and 9-11
  • Heroes of 9-11
  • Views of 9-11 (1)
  • Views of 9-11 (2)
  • The Iraq Decision
  • The Iraq War
• War and Civil Liberties
• War and the Media

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Legal and Constitutional History

• Constitutional Convention
• Bill of Rights
• The Judiciary
• Constitutional Change in the Progressive Era

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Social and Political History

• Native Americans
  • Indian Assimilation
  • Indian Mascots
  • Tribal Sovereignty
• John Brown
• The Gilded Age
• The Fur Trade
• 19th Century Activism
• Immigration
  • Immigrant History
  • Immigration
  • Immigration and Labor
• Women
  • Progressive Era Women
  • Women Workers1
  • Women Workers 2
  • Three Generations of Women
  • Women and the Civil War
  • Women in Ads
  • Women Today: The Past in Pictures
  • Women's Roles
  • Women's Wartime Roles
• Work in the 1950s
• 1960s Protests
• Social Change
• Work and Resistance
• Working Conditions
• Children
  • Boarding Schools
  • Child Labor
  • Three Centuries of Child Labor

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Useful Resources

History Thinking Standards
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• Chronological Thinking (11 KB)
• Historical Analysis and Decision Making (12 KB)
• Historical Analysis and Interpretation (13 KB)
• Historical Comprehension (13 KB)
• Historical Research Capabilities(12 KB)

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Creating Teaching and Learning Rubrics
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• http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/checklist.shtml

• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

• http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/docs/rubricar.htm

• http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/rubricfeature.htm

• http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.shtml

• http://kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us/harmon/breighm/rubrics.html

• http://www.rubrician.com

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N.A.R.A. Digital Classroom: Document Analysis Worksheets
Click here to view a list of worksheets (opens in a new window) for analyzing source materials from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (N.A.R.A.). Click a link below to move directly to that worksheet (opens in a new window).

• Written Document
• Photograph
• Cartoon
• Poster
• Map
• Artifact
• Sound Recording
• Motion Picture

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American History Web Resources
Click here to view a list of Web sites (opens in a new window). Click a link below to move directly to that section on the list (opens in a new window).

• Standards and Benchmarks
• History Organizations
• General Interest to History Teachers
• Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
• Early National and Antebellum Eras
• Civil War Era
• Gilded and Progressive Eras
• Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Cold War Era (United States and Abroad)
• Contemporary Times

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Bibliographies

American Military History Web Resources (opens in a new window)
(PDF file ~ 125 KB)
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Progressive Era Bibliography (opens in a new window)
(PDF file ~ 149 KB)
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U.S. Constitution Bibliography (opens in a new window)
(PDF file ~ 119 KB)
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1960s and Popular Culture Bibliography (opens in a new window)
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Bibliography of Selected Books, Web Sites, and other Resources for Teaching Labor History in Wisconsin High Schools
(PDF File ~ 28 KB)
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Annotated Bibliography on September 11th and After
(PDF File ~ 25 KB)
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Department of History ~ Social Change and Development Unit
Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, B-332
The University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
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