The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
The Rhode Island Historical Society, in partnership with the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, was awarded a grant from the National Park Service* for a multi-phase project on African Americans’ Struggle for Civil Rights in Rhode Island: The 20th Century. The project consisted of conducting archival research, collecting oral histories, and documenting places of significance to civil rights in Rhode Island over the course of three years, 2017-2020. Public exhibits and school unit plans were also created thanks to this grant.
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This lesson plan focuses on two prominent Supreme Court cases on the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and it asks students to consider the executive branch's authority regarding individual liberties during times of war.

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Annenberg Classroom

This lesson helps dispel prevailing stereotypes and generalizing cultural representations of American Indians by providing culturally-specific information about the contemporary as well as historical cultures of distinct tribes and communities within the United States.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

This unit plan invites students to learn about the Civil Rights movement in Rhode Island while thinking more broadly about how conceptions of race and ethnicity change over time.
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The Rhode Island Historical Society
Do Americans have shared ideals? What do they look like? Students investigate this question by closely examining words that express American ideals, selecting images from a provided deck that best illustrate their interpretation of the word, and them comparing their choices to others in their group.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

This unit plan deeply explores the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s. Students will examine why widespread American sympathy for the plight of Jewish refugees never translated into widespread support for prioritizing their rescue.

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Facing History and Ourselves

Learn how the American idea of government evolved from a revolutionary response to monarchy to that of a unified nation. Students will dig into the preambles and introductory text of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.

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iCivics, Inc.

Students use primary sources focused on baseball to explore the American experience regarding race and ethnicity.

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The Library of Congress

This lesson is an icebreaker that provides an opportunity for students to reflect on and share how names reflect identity. By creating a class identity chart, they will explore both what is diverse and what is shared in their classroom community.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This free curriculum guide from the New-York Historical Society explores the contested efforts toward full citizenship and racial equality for African Americans that transpired in the fifty years after the Civil War. Examining both the activism for and opposition to Black citizenship rights, the materials in this curriculum underscore how ideas of freedom and citizenship were redefined by government and citizen action, and challenged by legal discrimination and violence.

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New-York Historical Society

An open access e-Book for upper elementary, middle and high school teachers and students, "Building Democracy for All: Interactive Explorations for Government and Civic Life" presents an interactive, multimodal, and multicultural exploration of key topics in United States government and civic life.

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College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst

In this lesson plan, students will read, view, and discuss child labor before reforms were made in our country.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History
