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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
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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