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Curricula

Links for Curricula developed through this Teaching American History Project can be found below. Many of the curriculum units and guides include historical dramas, powerpoint presentations, GIS projects, and DBQ exercises. Look at the curricula abstracts to find a unit that meets your needs!

[Download/View PDF of 2002-09 Curricula Abstracts Here]

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All curriculum units listed alphabetically.

"A Necessary Evil" A Drama about the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
*Download <Atomic Bomb> Slides for Drama

African-American Exclusion: The People of Oregon v. The Oregon Constitution
* Download Interactive PDF Project <OR Racial Timeline> (75mg)

RUN THE OREGON RACIAL TIMELINE HERE
Warning: requires high-speed internet connection

Borders of Change: A Drama about Immigration and the Immigration Act of 1965
*Download <Immigration Act> Slides for Drama

Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg: A Drama about a Family Divided
*Download <Civil War> Slides for Drama

Community and Connections
*Download <Sellwood Base Map> ArcView GIS Project
*Download <Personal Immigration Stories> ArcView GIS Project

Conservation and the Environment: Tracing a Movement through History
* Download Video <Willamette River> [link not active; video is in the process of being clipped to a smaller download size]

Desegregation & the Little Rock Crisis
* Download/Run <African-American Demographics - 1950> Google Earth Project

Development of Cities
*Download <US City Growth> Powerpoint
*Download <PDX Urban Growth> Powerpoint
*Download <OR Settlement> Powerpoint
*Download <Westward Expansion> Powerpoint
*Download <Early OR Settlement Pix> Powerpoint

Early 20th Century U.S. Labor Struggles (Centralia)

East Meets West: Manifest Destiny and the Oregon Tribes
*Download <1860 Tualatin> ArcReader GIS Project (87mg)

Evaluating the Nature of the Vietnam War

Fins, Fulfillment and Foreign Makes: What is the meaning of fulfillment in contemporary American life?
*Download <Fins Fulfill Foreign Makes> Powerpoint

FDR's New Deal: New Deal or Raw Deal?

Franklin High School History Project
*Download <Metadata Lesson > ArcView GIS Project

Free Speech and the Labor Movement in the Early 20th Century Pacific Northwest
*Download <1900-1914 Progressivism Labor> Powerpoint
*Download <Wobblies Free Speech> Powerpoint

Furs, Forts & Flags: Who Owns the Land? (Astoria, OR)
*Download <Furs, Forts & Flags> Drama Powerpoint

Hawaiian Annexation (1898)
*Download the <Hawaii Annexation> Drama Powerpoint

Immigrant Families of Northwest Portland (1890-1920)
*Download <Immigrants NW Portland> Powerpoint
*Download <NW PDX> ArcReader GIS Project (60mg)

Indian Removal
*Download/Run <Louisiana Purchase & Native American Displacement> Google Earth Project

[The] Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934
*Download/Run <Indian New Deal> Google Earth Project
*Download the <Poker Jim> Powerpoint

Interconnected Relationship Between People-Transportation-Cities
*Download <Trolleys> Powerpoint

Japanese Internment
*Download/Run the <Japanese Internment> Google Earth Project

Jeffersonian Visions and its Impact on Western Expansion

Jefferson on the Run: A Drama about Thomas Jefferson's Escape from Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War
*Download <Jefferson on the Run> Slides for Drama

Legacy of Oregon's 19th Century Exclusion Laws: The Case of Jacob Vanderpool

Latino Immigration
*Download <Latino Census> ArcView GIS Project

McCarthy and the "Great Fear"
*Download PDF Poster <The Great Fear>

[The] Monroe Doctrine
*Download/Run <The Monroe Doctrine> Google Earth Project
*Download <The Monroe Doctrine Google Earth Project Description>

Nihonmachi - Oregon's Japan Town Remembered
*Download <Personal Immigration Stories> ArcView GIS Project
*Download <Oldtown 1930 Census> ArcView GIS Project
*Download <Oldtown Vice> ArcView GIS Project
*Download <Portland Foreign Born> ArcView GIS Project

Oregon Myth vs. Reality
*Download <OR Myth> ArcReader GIS Project (107mg)

Oregon: The Uncomfortable Road to Statehood
*Download/Run the <Oregon Statehood> Google Earth Project

Pattern of Chinese Presence in Oregon's History
*Download <PDX Chinatown> Powerpoint

Portland: From Redlining to Revitalization
*Download <PDX African American> ArcView GIS Project

Property Rights & Land Use
*Download/Run <Oregon's Measure 37> Google Earth Project

Public Voice and the Vietnam War
*Download <Natl. Election Survey and Vietnam> Powerpoint
*Download <Turning Points in the Vietnam War> Powerpoint

Push/Pull Factors of Westward Migration

Racism and de facto Segregation

[The] Red Scare

[The] Salem Witch Trials
*Download/Run the <Salem Witch Trials> Google Earth Project
*Download the <Salem Witch Trials> Drama Powerpoint

Settlement of the Oregon Territory: Impact of Geography
*Download <Early OR Settlement Pix> Powerpoint

Slavery and Freedom in America (1790-1890)

Urban Renewal and the Minnesota Freeway (North Portland OR)
*Download <Minnesota Freeway> ArcView GIS Project

Urban Renewal in the Eliot Neighborhood (Portland OR)

[City of] Vanport, OR: More than just the nation's largest wartime housing project
*Download <Vanport> Powerpoint

Vietnam: A Cold War Case Study
*Download <Vietnam Military History> Powerpoint

Vietnam: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

War, Survival and Healing: Stories of Vietnam and America
*Download <War Survival Healing> ArcView GIS Project

Westward Expansion: Settling of the West, Ethnic and Gendered Perspectives
*Download <Manifest Destiny> ArcView GIS Project

What Ignites Movement? (Westward Expansion)

Who Owns the Land? (Case Study: SE Portland, OR)
*Download the <Kelly Family Documents.zip> folder (bios, images, and other data)
*Download <Who Owns the Land> ArcView GIS Project (Warning: over 100mgs)

Wobblies
*Download <PNW Economy Lesson> Powerpoint
*Download <Labor Strategies Lesson> Powerpoint

Women Workers on the Home Front During WWII
*Download <Women and WWII Propaganda> Powerpoint
*Download <Women in the Labor Force 1940-2000> Powerpoint

World War II and the Japanese Internment in Portland, OR
*Download <Japanese Internment> ArcView GIS Project

World War II: Peoples on the Move
*Download <WWII:Peoples on the Move> Drama Powerpoint

World War II: Population, Labor & Education in Portland Oregon
*Download <WWII & PPS> ArcView GIS Project

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