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A lot longer than we anticipated

Pete Seeger was nearly 80 years old when I saw him perform with Arlo Guthrie in St. Paul, Minnesota. He seemed to take a nap on the stage while Guthrie was playing, an approach to life that may have helped him to live another fifteen years. It was 1988, a year and a half before […]

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Curriculum History Instructional Design Lesson Plans

Contingency and Latin American Independence

Students can develop understandings of contingency in the process of Latin American independence by working through groups of events in specific regions.

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Curriculum Historical Thinking History

Americanos

Teaching Latin American Independence. I’ve been thinking about an evergreen topic among World History teachers: bringing more Latina American content into our classes.

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Curriculum Historical Thinking History Lesson Plans

Titus: Self-Emancipated

Students read an excerpt from the book which is entry point to considering how Landers constructed historical knowledge from advertisements for runaway slaves and to learning about how some enslaved people sought freedom

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Curriculum History

Vast Anti-Imperial Conspiracy

Reading Underground Asia broadened, deepened, and challenged my understanding of revolution and anti-imperialism in the first three decades of the twentieth century.