Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn more about Columbus Day, reflect on why some cities and states have renamed it Indigenous Peoples
June 7, 2024
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn more about Columbus Day, reflect on why some cities and states have renamed it Indigenous Peoples
Students will use critical thinking skills to analyze primary source documents related to the life of Benjamin Franklin and his relationship with slavery. This lesson
Thomas Ray Garcia, former candidate for the Texas State Board of Education and teacher, details his personal discovery that he grew up mere blocks from
Nazism emerged in Germany during the era of “Jim Crow” in the United States (a period after the Civil War in which segregation was legal
Although different in many ways, antisemitism in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and anti-Black racism in Jim Crow-era America deeply affected communities in these countries.
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall uprising took place. It began in the early morning at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York
In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine published The 1619 Project, an ongoing initiative that aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the
A study of a new curriculum will test a new approach to learning about race: studying it in biology class. In this lesson, you’ll learn
For this lesson, students will be introduced to the history of race. Our modern understanding of race was introduced starting in the 1600s as European
For this lesson, students will be introduced to important elements of culture, both surface and deep culture. Students will come to understand how culture shapes