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A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston An activity combining process and content “Salem, where we landed, pleased us not,” wrote Thomas Dudley, describing the arrival of...

On August 18, 1572 Marguerite de Valois (a Catholic), the sister of French King Charles IX, was wed in Paris to Henry III of Navarre (a Protestant). Their marriage was intended to solidify the...

It took eight years of bitter fighting for Americans to win their independence from England. Most U.S. history courses concentrate on the causes that led Americans to seek independence, and then...

Bundle of 6 lessons, individually $30. Save 50% with the Bundle.  1.      Making a Book about Washington D.C. during the Civil War  2...

Most Civil War historians would agree that in order to win the war the North needed to carry the fight into the South. But the Southern commanders, especially General Robert E. Lee, believed that...

 At the start of the American Civil War both the Union and the Confederacy an immediate problem of enlisting men into their respective armies and providing them with competent commanders. Many...

 A group of wealthy Puritans, including John Winthrop, set up the Massachusetts Bay Company and asked the English King for permission to found a colony in New England. The King agreed and...

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  FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT DURING THE RENAISSANCE Was it a true democratic Republic?   In the summer of 1378, the lowest class of woolen workers, known as the “ciompi” because...

This activity combines process and content allowing students to use the included thirty-two well-researched pages to create their own personal book about the colonial city of Philadelphia and its...

“Millions of men are marching at once towards the same horizon: their language; their religion; their manners differ; their object is the same. Fortune has been promised to them somewhere in...

  Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War An activity that combines process and content In 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of a little over 50,000 inhabitants. Most...