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    • American History - Connecting to the Past
      • Adena & Hopewell Cultures: Artifact Analysis
      • African Slave Trade
        • African American Slavery
        • John Rankin and the Underground Railroad
        • My Furthest Back Person by Alex Haley
        • Slave Ships
        • Slavery as Scene by Austin Steward
        • The Daily Life of Slaves
        • The Passage
      • American Revolution
        • American Revolution - Image Analysis
        • American Revolution in the Ohio Country
        • An Ode to the American Revolution (1788): Using Poetry to Teach History
        • Articles of Confederation vs. The U.S. Constitution
        • Battle of Trenton: True Turning Point or Popular Myth?
        • Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence
        • Common Sense: Thomas Paine and American Independence
        • Compare and Contrast Georges
        • Daily Life of Revolutionary War Soldiers: An Artifact Analysis
        • Declaration of Independence
        • Fort Laurens, Ohio, and the American Revolution
        • George Washington
        • King George III and George Washington
        • Ohio during the Pre- Revolutionary Era
        • Revolutionary Songs
        • Revolutionary War Maps
        • Spies and Espionage
        • Tarring and Feathering - Image Analysis
        • Tarring and Feathering - Political Activism
        • The Boston Massacre
        • The Boston Massacre - Analyzing the Evidence
        • The Boston Massacre - Paul Revere's Engraving
        • The Molasses Act
      • An Exchange of Cultures
      • Cahokia and the Mississippian Native Culture
      • Canal Versus National Road
      • Canals: Getting Goods to Market
      • Child Labor: Through their Eyes
      • Christopher Columbus: Friend or Foe
      • Cold Case: The Lost Colony
      • Debating the Constitution
      • Diarists on the Ohio Frontier
      • Immigration to America in the 1800s
      • Irish Immigration to the United States
      • John Winthrop and the Puritans
      • Native American Cultures
      • Progression of Transportation in Ohio and the West
      • Seed to Shirt: The Linen Industry
      • Shay's Rebellion
      • Students and the Supreme Court
      • The Constitution
      • The Lewis and Clark Expedition
        • Council with the Indians
        • Holding Council with the Indians
        • Jefferson Peace Medals
        • Lewis and Clark Etching
        • Prairie Animals
        • Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
      • The Ohio and Erie Canal
      • The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act
      • The Underground Railroad in Ohio
      • Trade Silver: Analyzing Trade Goods Desired by Native Americans
      • Transporting Ohio Goods to Market in the 1840s
      • Western Expansion
        • Don't Leave the Farm Boys
        • Early Ohio Settlement
        • Getting there: Settling the West
        • Homestead Act of 1862
        • Hunting of Bison
        • Impact of European Settlers on Ohio
        • Petition to Ohio Governor Huntington from Chief Tarhe
    • Back to History Lesson Plans
    • Back to History Primary Source Activities
    • Central Asia in World History
    • Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods
      • Lesson plans
        • Birds of a Feather
          • Birds of a Feather - Group Photo
          • Byrd Quoted in National Geographic Magazine
          • Carl O. Petersen
          • George A. Thorne
          • Harold Irving June
          • Jacob Bursey
          • Magic Words
          • Norman D. Vaughan
          • Richard E. Bryd's Little America
          • Unpublished Writings by Byrd, "How I Pick My Men"
          • William Cyclone Haines
        • Boy Scout with Byrd
          • Boy Scout With Byrd - Primary Sources
        • Daily Life in Antarctica
        • Did Byrd Fly over the North Pole in 1926?
          • Did Byrd Fly over the North Pole in 1926? - Primary Sources
        • Who Won the Race to the North Pole: Cook or Peary?
          • Who Won the Race to the North Pole: Cook or Peary? - Primary Sources
      • Credits
    • European History, 1450 - Present
      • The Scientific Revolution
        • Historical Resources
        • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
        • Go straight to the Source: Newton and Wilkins
        • An Overview
        • Picturing a Worldview
        • Another Overview Lesson
        • Where in the Universe is the Earth?
        • Walking the Historical Path: Chemistry's Journey
        • The Development of Atomic Theory
        • Galileo and the Scientific Method
        • From White Light to Rainbow Brite
        • Emblematic Images in the Scientific Revolution
        • Witchcraft in Salem
        • Religion and the Scientific Revolution
        • The Trial of Galileo
        • Revolutionary Thinkers from the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment
        • From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
        • Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment Baseball Card Project
        • The Scientific Revolution: Credits
      • The First World War in Global Context
        • Teacher Resources
        • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
        • Why did they fight?
        • The Soldier's Experience
        • Life in the Trenches: Photograph Analysis
        • The Impact of the Great War on Youth
        • A Soldier’s Voice from World War I: Gallipoli
        • World War I from the German Side
        • The Great War and the People It Affected
        • The Human Cost of War
        • Nationalism & Propaganda
        • Sheet Music in the Great War
        • World War I in Poetry
        • The United States Enters World War I
        • The Experiences of African Americans
        • The Great War: Credits
      • The French Revolution
      • The Holocaust
      • The Industrial Revolution
    • Teaching History with Historic Clothing Artifacts
      • Lesson Plans
        • A Shirtwaist Disaster!
        • Industrial Revolution in America
        • Cultural Revolution of the 60s
        • Inspiring Beauty – 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
        • Making Writing Fun While Exploring Historical Artifacts
        • Sports Clothing
        • The Space Race and the Impact on Society
        • Tuck Everlasting Lesson Plan
        • WWII Rationing on the Homefront
    • Inventors and Innovators (Ohio Chautauqua 2008)
      • A Poetic Look at Contrasting Views of Innovators
      • Alexander Graham Bell Primary Source Activity
      • Blast Off – Robert Goddard’s Impact on the USA Space Program
      • Code Talkers—The Navajo Soldiers of WWII
      • George Washington Carver and the Trip I’ll Make to Learn About Him
    • Opper Project
      • Editorial Cartoons: An Introduction
        • Stereotypes
          • Aw, Schucks
          • Food? We Germans don't eat food! We Germans eat countries!
          • Hans! Franz!
          • My New Caricatures
          • The Father of Our Country as Seen by His Children
          • The Girls He Left Behind Him
          • Which Color is to be Tabooed Next
          • [Hobo]
        • Opper Resources
      • History of Editorial Cartoons
      • Lesson Plans
        • American Imperialism
          • A Fair Field and No Favor!
          • Peace
          • President Roosevelt’s Forthcoming Feast
          • Roosevelt As the Rising Sun of Yankee Imperialism
          • This Encounter
          • Uncle Sam’s New Class in the Art of Self-Government
          • Union Nursery
        • Andrew Jackson: Hero or Villain?
        • Anti-Vietnam Conflict (War) Protest
          • ...But It's Okay Over Here?
          • Echoes of the Enemy
          • Here They Come
          • Kissinger and 'The Books'
          • The Threat of a Full-Time Job
          • Viet-Conga Line
          • You Can Hear the Same 'Program' Closer to Home
        • Business v. Labor and the Role of Government
          • Between Two of a Kind: The Consumer Suffers When These Two Trusts Fall Out
          • Come, Brothers, You Have Grown So Big You Cannot Afford to Quarrel
          • Next!
          • The King of the Combinations
        • Business and Labor
        • Lincoln
          • Lincoln's Two Difficulties
          • Long Abraham Lincoln a Little Longer
          • Old Mother Lincoln
          • Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up
          • The American Difficulty
          • The Coming Man's Presidential Career, á la Blondin
          • The New Orleans Plum
          • The President's Inaugural
        • Cartooning the Collapse of the Soviet Union
        • Reconstruction
          • Lead Us Not into Temptation
          • Reconstruction (Image)
          • Republican Principles vs. Democratic Principles
          • This is a White Man's Government
          • Who Are the Haters
        • Cold War Conflict in Korea: 'The Powerful and Powerless United Nations'
          • 'Peace' Movement in Korea
          • All the Tea Leaves in China
          • Rocky Road to Nowhere
          • Those Are the Flags of Various Gangster Mobs and Millionaires. Now Shut Up.
        • Teddy Roosevelt as the Face of American Imperialism
        • Cold War Conflict in Vietnam: 'The Vietnam-Era Presidency'
          • Johnson's Scar
          • Nam War
          • Nightmare
          • The Commander-in-Chief
          • Vietnam Meat Grinder
          • Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
        • We came, We Saw, We Conquered
        • Dr. Seuss and U.S. Isolationism WWII
        • Editorial Cartoons of WWII in Europe
          • As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
          • Splendid Isolation
          • The Epic of Stalingrad
          • The Race For Berlin
          • The Way of a Stork
          • V-E Delivery Room
          • With the Greatest of Ease?
        • Energy Crisis
          • Gulp, Shill, Exxtort, Pilfer 66
          • Hey, man...like I don't care what it's costing...I need it.
          • Painted Into a Corner
          • Tune in Next Decade for the Exciting Conclusion
          • World's Spigot
          • You May Force Us to Do Something About This!
        • Immigration
          • A Bombardment that Would Paralyze Them
          • A Statue for Our Harbor
          • Looking Backward
          • San Francisco's Three Graces
          • Seeking More Freedom!
          • The Hyphenated American
          • The Immigrant
          • What Shall We Do With Our Boys?
        • Immigration in U.S. History: Through the Eye of Editorial Cartoons
        • League of Nations
          • Best New Devices Ever Seemed Impractical at First
          • He Did It!
          • Interrupting the Ceremony
          • Prospective Stepfather
          • Strange Bedfellows
          • The Accuser
          • There Were Unbelievers Then—There are Unbelievers Now
          • They Won’t Dovetail
        • Nixon and Watergate
          • Defining Impeachable Offense and Executive Privilege
          • Executive v. Legislative
          • I Have Nothing to Hide
          • The Executive Branch
          • The Mob Has Taken Over
          • We the People
        • Nuclear Weapons
          • Area of Agreement
          • At the Wrong End of the Table
          • Keep moving...
          • Limited Chicken
          • Nuclear freeze scenario
          • Preliminary Disarmament Talks...
          • The History of Arms Reduction Talks
          • Tick-tick-tick
          • You'll Not Get Rich (Rat-Tattatta-Tat) You're in the Arms Race Now!
        • Progressive Reforms
          • Happy Childhood Days
          • Jack and the Wall Street Giants
          • The Poor Little Rich Boy
          • The Tenement - A Menace to All
        • Prohibition
          • Death of Personal Liberty
          • Returned Soldier: I should have stayed home and fought for liberty.
          • To the American Soldier the Middle of the Road is Closed
          • U.S.: I wonder if self-determination is meant only for Europe?
          • United States Rules for Living
        • The Civil Rights Movement
          • A Letter from the Front
          • Daredevil Lyndon Johnson
          • Getting Ready for School…1969
          • Literacy Test
          • Marching Together
          • Somebody Had Better Apply the Breaks!
          • …It Was Against the Rule
        • The Civil Rights Movement: Cartoons as a Means of Protest
        • The Election of 1896 - Gold or Silver?
          • Bryan is the Ablest Worker for Sound Money
          • Forbear
          • Shoulder to Shoulder
          • The Deadly Parallel
        • The Election of 1912
          • Can He Get Across?
          • Favors Always for the Few
          • The Bill Posters
          • The Elephant
          • The Man Hunt
          • Why Is It Nobody Loves Me?
        • The Equal Rights Amendment: Viewing Women’s Issues Through Political Cartoons
        • The Great Depression
        • The Great Depression: The Role of Political Parties
          • Brothers in Distress
          • But the Old Tree Was a Mighty Good Producer
          • Helping Uncle Fish
          • Now Then, Sail On, O Ship of State
          • See the Pretty Banner
          • The Bulwark
        • The Red Scare
          • Boiling Over
          • Hell’s Masterpiece
          • Missent
          • The Socialist (to the Democratic Donkey)—You’re Stealing My Props! Why Not Take this Also?
          • The Source
          • The World Had Better Watch This Insect
          • We Can’t Digest the Scum
        • Treaty of Versailles
          • Cloudy and Unsettled
          • Don’t Worry!
          • In Order To Get the Sugar
          • The Art Student's Masterpiece and the Professor's Criticism
          • The Train Pulls Off Without Us
        • Want a Drink, Anybody? (Temperance)
        • Who is to Blame? Analyzing Points of View in Gas Price Editorial Cartoons from the 1970s and 2000s
        • Wilson's 14 Points
          • Barring His Way
          • Can He Produce the Harmony?
          • Father, I Cannot Tell a Lie. I Did It With My Fourteen Swats.
          • He Was Bound to Get It Wrong
          • It’s The Only Way Out, Wilhelm!
          • The Dime Novel
        • You’ve come a long way -- maybe: Female vice presidential candidates in editorial cartoons
      • Biography of Opper
      • Credits
    • Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
    • United States History
      • 1920s Consumer Culture
      • Espionage in the American Revolution
      • Indian Removal
      • Loyalists and Loyalism in the American Revolution
      • Lynchings
      • Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
      • Native American History: John Smith and the Powhatan
      • Native American Stereotypes and Assimilation
      • Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War
      • The Age of Reform
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      • The American Revolution and Enlightenment
      • The Automobile
      • The Boston Massacre
      • The Cotton Gin
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      • The Manhattan Project
      • The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
      • U.S. Constitution versus the Articles of Confederation
      • U.S. Constitution: The Bill of Rights
      • U.S. Constitution: The Powers of the Presidency
      • U.S. Constitution: The Preamble
      • Views of Antebellum Slavery: Uncle Tom's Cabin
      • Westward Expansion and the African-American Experience
      • Westward Expansion at First Hand: Letters of Anna Ketchum and Ruhamah Hayes
      • Women's Suffrage, 1890 - 1920
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      • America’s Path to WWII
      • Children's Activities that Helped the War Effort
      • Eyewitness to History: History through the eyes that lived it
      • Mansfield's WWII Homefront ("Our Story")
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      • To Drop the Bomb or Not
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The American Revolution

Lesson Plans
 

 
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
 


Below are American Revolution lesson plans listed by grade level:

 

Grade 4

The Molasses Act and the Coming of the American Revolution
 
The Boston Massacre
 
American Revolution in the Ohio Country
 
Fort Laurens, Ohio, and the American Revolution
 
Articles of the Confederation Vs. The U.S. Constitution
 
Comparison of King George III and George Washington
 
 

Grade 5

Spies and Espionage
 
Daily Life of Revolutionary War Soldiers: An Artifact Analysis
 
Ohio during the Pre-Revolutionary Era
 
Revolutionary Songs
 
 

Grade 6

Compare and Contrast Georges
 
 

Grade 7

An ode to the American Revolution (1788): Using Poetry to Teach History
 
Tarring and Feathering: Image Analysis
 
 

Grade 8

The Boston Massacre: Analyzing the Evidence
 
The Boston Massacre: Paul Revere's Engraving 
 
Common Sense. Guided reading of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet. 
 
The Declaration of Independence
 
Revolutionary War Maps
 
Tarring and Feathering: Political Activism
 
American Revolution - Image Analysis
 
Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence
 
George Washington
 
The Battle of Trenton
 
 

History Lesson Plans

  • American History - Connecting to the Past
    • Adena & Hopewell Cultures: Artifact Analysis
    • African Slave Trade
      • African American Slavery
      • John Rankin and the Underground Railroad
      • My Furthest Back Person by Alex Haley
      • Slave Ships
      • Slavery as Scene by Austin Steward
      • The Daily Life of Slaves
      • The Passage
    • American Revolution
      • American Revolution - Image Analysis
      • American Revolution in the Ohio Country
      • An Ode to the American Revolution (1788): Using Poetry to Teach History
      • Articles of Confederation vs. The U.S. Constitution
      • Battle of Trenton: True Turning Point or Popular Myth?
      • Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence
      • Common Sense: Thomas Paine and American Independence
      • Compare and Contrast Georges
      • Daily Life of Revolutionary War Soldiers: An Artifact Analysis
      • Declaration of Independence
      • Fort Laurens, Ohio, and the American Revolution
      • George Washington
      • King George III and George Washington
      • Ohio during the Pre- Revolutionary Era
      • Revolutionary Songs
      • Revolutionary War Maps
      • Spies and Espionage
      • Tarring and Feathering - Image Analysis
      • Tarring and Feathering - Political Activism
      • The Boston Massacre
      • The Boston Massacre - Analyzing the Evidence
      • The Boston Massacre - Paul Revere's Engraving
      • The Molasses Act
    • An Exchange of Cultures
    • Cahokia and the Mississippian Native Culture
    • Canal Versus National Road
    • Canals: Getting Goods to Market
    • Child Labor: Through their Eyes
    • Christopher Columbus: Friend or Foe
    • Cold Case: The Lost Colony
    • Debating the Constitution
    • Diarists on the Ohio Frontier
    • Immigration to America in the 1800s
    • Irish Immigration to the United States
    • John Winthrop and the Puritans
    • Native American Cultures
    • Progression of Transportation in Ohio and the West
    • Seed to Shirt: The Linen Industry
    • Shay's Rebellion
    • Students and the Supreme Court
    • The Constitution
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition
      • Council with the Indians
      • Holding Council with the Indians
      • Jefferson Peace Medals
      • Lewis and Clark Etching
      • Prairie Animals
      • Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
    • The Ohio and Erie Canal
    • The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act
    • The Underground Railroad in Ohio
    • Trade Silver: Analyzing Trade Goods Desired by Native Americans
    • Transporting Ohio Goods to Market in the 1840s
    • Western Expansion
      • Don't Leave the Farm Boys
      • Early Ohio Settlement
      • Getting there: Settling the West
      • Homestead Act of 1862
      • Hunting of Bison
      • Impact of European Settlers on Ohio
      • Petition to Ohio Governor Huntington from Chief Tarhe
  • Back to History Lesson Plans
  • Back to History Primary Source Activities
  • Central Asia in World History
  • Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods
    • Lesson plans
      • Birds of a Feather
        • Birds of a Feather - Group Photo
        • Byrd Quoted in National Geographic Magazine
        • Carl O. Petersen
        • George A. Thorne
        • Harold Irving June
        • Jacob Bursey
        • Magic Words
        • Norman D. Vaughan
        • Richard E. Bryd's Little America
        • Unpublished Writings by Byrd, "How I Pick My Men"
        • William Cyclone Haines
      • Boy Scout with Byrd
        • Boy Scout With Byrd - Primary Sources
      • Daily Life in Antarctica
      • Did Byrd Fly over the North Pole in 1926?
        • Did Byrd Fly over the North Pole in 1926? - Primary Sources
      • Who Won the Race to the North Pole: Cook or Peary?
        • Who Won the Race to the North Pole: Cook or Peary? - Primary Sources
    • Credits
  • European History, 1450 - Present
    • The Scientific Revolution
      • Historical Resources
      • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
      • Go straight to the Source: Newton and Wilkins
      • An Overview
      • Picturing a Worldview
      • Another Overview Lesson
      • Where in the Universe is the Earth?
      • Walking the Historical Path: Chemistry's Journey
      • The Development of Atomic Theory
      • Galileo and the Scientific Method
      • From White Light to Rainbow Brite
      • Emblematic Images in the Scientific Revolution
      • Witchcraft in Salem
      • Religion and the Scientific Revolution
      • The Trial of Galileo
      • Revolutionary Thinkers from the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment
      • From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
      • Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment Baseball Card Project
      • The Scientific Revolution: Credits
    • The First World War in Global Context
      • Teacher Resources
      • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
      • Why did they fight?
      • The Soldier's Experience
      • Life in the Trenches: Photograph Analysis
      • The Impact of the Great War on Youth
      • A Soldier’s Voice from World War I: Gallipoli
      • World War I from the German Side
      • The Great War and the People It Affected
      • The Human Cost of War
      • Nationalism & Propaganda
      • Sheet Music in the Great War
      • World War I in Poetry
      • The United States Enters World War I
      • The Experiences of African Americans
      • The Great War: Credits
    • The French Revolution
    • The Holocaust
    • The Industrial Revolution
  • Teaching History with Historic Clothing Artifacts
    • Lesson Plans
      • A Shirtwaist Disaster!
      • Industrial Revolution in America
      • Cultural Revolution of the 60s
      • Inspiring Beauty – 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
      • Making Writing Fun While Exploring Historical Artifacts
      • Sports Clothing
      • The Space Race and the Impact on Society
      • Tuck Everlasting Lesson Plan
      • WWII Rationing on the Homefront
  • Inventors and Innovators (Ohio Chautauqua 2008)
    • A Poetic Look at Contrasting Views of Innovators
    • Alexander Graham Bell Primary Source Activity
    • Blast Off – Robert Goddard’s Impact on the USA Space Program
    • Code Talkers—The Navajo Soldiers of WWII
    • George Washington Carver and the Trip I’ll Make to Learn About Him
  • Opper Project
    • Editorial Cartoons: An Introduction
      • Stereotypes
        • Aw, Schucks
        • Food? We Germans don't eat food! We Germans eat countries!
        • Hans! Franz!
        • My New Caricatures
        • The Father of Our Country as Seen by His Children
        • The Girls He Left Behind Him
        • Which Color is to be Tabooed Next
        • [Hobo]
      • Opper Resources
    • History of Editorial Cartoons
    • Lesson Plans
      • American Imperialism
        • A Fair Field and No Favor!
        • Peace
        • President Roosevelt’s Forthcoming Feast
        • Roosevelt As the Rising Sun of Yankee Imperialism
        • This Encounter
        • Uncle Sam’s New Class in the Art of Self-Government
        • Union Nursery
      • Andrew Jackson: Hero or Villain?
      • Anti-Vietnam Conflict (War) Protest
        • ...But It's Okay Over Here?
        • Echoes of the Enemy
        • Here They Come
        • Kissinger and 'The Books'
        • The Threat of a Full-Time Job
        • Viet-Conga Line
        • You Can Hear the Same 'Program' Closer to Home
      • Business v. Labor and the Role of Government
        • Between Two of a Kind: The Consumer Suffers When These Two Trusts Fall Out
        • Come, Brothers, You Have Grown So Big You Cannot Afford to Quarrel
        • Next!
        • The King of the Combinations
      • Business and Labor
      • Lincoln
        • Lincoln's Two Difficulties
        • Long Abraham Lincoln a Little Longer
        • Old Mother Lincoln
        • Progressive Democracy - Prospect of a Smash Up
        • The American Difficulty
        • The Coming Man's Presidential Career, á la Blondin
        • The New Orleans Plum
        • The President's Inaugural
      • Cartooning the Collapse of the Soviet Union
      • Reconstruction
        • Lead Us Not into Temptation
        • Reconstruction (Image)
        • Republican Principles vs. Democratic Principles
        • This is a White Man's Government
        • Who Are the Haters
      • Cold War Conflict in Korea: 'The Powerful and Powerless United Nations'
        • 'Peace' Movement in Korea
        • All the Tea Leaves in China
        • Rocky Road to Nowhere
        • Those Are the Flags of Various Gangster Mobs and Millionaires. Now Shut Up.
      • Teddy Roosevelt as the Face of American Imperialism
      • Cold War Conflict in Vietnam: 'The Vietnam-Era Presidency'
        • Johnson's Scar
        • Nam War
        • Nightmare
        • The Commander-in-Chief
        • Vietnam Meat Grinder
        • Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
      • We came, We Saw, We Conquered
      • Dr. Seuss and U.S. Isolationism WWII
      • Editorial Cartoons of WWII in Europe
        • As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap
        • Splendid Isolation
        • The Epic of Stalingrad
        • The Race For Berlin
        • The Way of a Stork
        • V-E Delivery Room
        • With the Greatest of Ease?
      • Energy Crisis
        • Gulp, Shill, Exxtort, Pilfer 66
        • Hey, man...like I don't care what it's costing...I need it.
        • Painted Into a Corner
        • Tune in Next Decade for the Exciting Conclusion
        • World's Spigot
        • You May Force Us to Do Something About This!
      • Immigration
        • A Bombardment that Would Paralyze Them
        • A Statue for Our Harbor
        • Looking Backward
        • San Francisco's Three Graces
        • Seeking More Freedom!
        • The Hyphenated American
        • The Immigrant
        • What Shall We Do With Our Boys?
      • Immigration in U.S. History: Through the Eye of Editorial Cartoons
      • League of Nations
        • Best New Devices Ever Seemed Impractical at First
        • He Did It!
        • Interrupting the Ceremony
        • Prospective Stepfather
        • Strange Bedfellows
        • The Accuser
        • There Were Unbelievers Then—There are Unbelievers Now
        • They Won’t Dovetail
      • Nixon and Watergate
        • Defining Impeachable Offense and Executive Privilege
        • Executive v. Legislative
        • I Have Nothing to Hide
        • The Executive Branch
        • The Mob Has Taken Over
        • We the People
      • Nuclear Weapons
        • Area of Agreement
        • At the Wrong End of the Table
        • Keep moving...
        • Limited Chicken
        • Nuclear freeze scenario
        • Preliminary Disarmament Talks...
        • The History of Arms Reduction Talks
        • Tick-tick-tick
        • You'll Not Get Rich (Rat-Tattatta-Tat) You're in the Arms Race Now!
      • Progressive Reforms
        • Happy Childhood Days
        • Jack and the Wall Street Giants
        • The Poor Little Rich Boy
        • The Tenement - A Menace to All
      • Prohibition
        • Death of Personal Liberty
        • Returned Soldier: I should have stayed home and fought for liberty.
        • To the American Soldier the Middle of the Road is Closed
        • U.S.: I wonder if self-determination is meant only for Europe?
        • United States Rules for Living
      • The Civil Rights Movement
        • A Letter from the Front
        • Daredevil Lyndon Johnson
        • Getting Ready for School…1969
        • Literacy Test
        • Marching Together
        • Somebody Had Better Apply the Breaks!
        • …It Was Against the Rule
      • The Civil Rights Movement: Cartoons as a Means of Protest
      • The Election of 1896 - Gold or Silver?
        • Bryan is the Ablest Worker for Sound Money
        • Forbear
        • Shoulder to Shoulder
        • The Deadly Parallel
      • The Election of 1912
        • Can He Get Across?
        • Favors Always for the Few
        • The Bill Posters
        • The Elephant
        • The Man Hunt
        • Why Is It Nobody Loves Me?
      • The Equal Rights Amendment: Viewing Women’s Issues Through Political Cartoons
      • The Great Depression
      • The Great Depression: The Role of Political Parties
        • Brothers in Distress
        • But the Old Tree Was a Mighty Good Producer
        • Helping Uncle Fish
        • Now Then, Sail On, O Ship of State
        • See the Pretty Banner
        • The Bulwark
      • The Red Scare
        • Boiling Over
        • Hell’s Masterpiece
        • Missent
        • The Socialist (to the Democratic Donkey)—You’re Stealing My Props! Why Not Take this Also?
        • The Source
        • The World Had Better Watch This Insect
        • We Can’t Digest the Scum
      • Treaty of Versailles
        • Cloudy and Unsettled
        • Don’t Worry!
        • In Order To Get the Sugar
        • The Art Student's Masterpiece and the Professor's Criticism
        • The Train Pulls Off Without Us
      • Want a Drink, Anybody? (Temperance)
      • Who is to Blame? Analyzing Points of View in Gas Price Editorial Cartoons from the 1970s and 2000s
      • Wilson's 14 Points
        • Barring His Way
        • Can He Produce the Harmony?
        • Father, I Cannot Tell a Lie. I Did It With My Fourteen Swats.
        • He Was Bound to Get It Wrong
        • It’s The Only Way Out, Wilhelm!
        • The Dime Novel
      • You’ve come a long way -- maybe: Female vice presidential candidates in editorial cartoons
    • Biography of Opper
    • Credits
  • Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
  • United States History
    • 1920s Consumer Culture
    • Espionage in the American Revolution
    • Indian Removal
    • Loyalists and Loyalism in the American Revolution
    • Lynchings
    • Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
    • Native American History: John Smith and the Powhatan
    • Native American Stereotypes and Assimilation
    • Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War
    • The Age of Reform
    • The Alien and Sedition Acts
    • The American Revolution and Enlightenment
    • The Automobile
    • The Boston Massacre
    • The Cotton Gin
    • The Homefront: America and WWII
    • The Manhattan Project
    • The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
    • U.S. Constitution versus the Articles of Confederation
    • U.S. Constitution: The Bill of Rights
    • U.S. Constitution: The Powers of the Presidency
    • U.S. Constitution: The Preamble
    • Views of Antebellum Slavery: Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • Westward Expansion and the African-American Experience
    • Westward Expansion at First Hand: Letters of Anna Ketchum and Ruhamah Hayes
    • Women's Suffrage, 1890 - 1920
  • World War II (Ohio Chautauqua 2007)
    • America’s Path to WWII
    • Children's Activities that Helped the War Effort
    • Eyewitness to History: History through the eyes that lived it
    • Mansfield's WWII Homefront ("Our Story")
    • Ohio and Its World War II Effort
    • People of WWII
    • Racism During WWII and Civil War
    • To Drop the Bomb or Not
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