Cliff Baker - Ye Olde History Emporium
Ye Olde US History Emporium started as a labor of love. When I was a new 8th grade US history teacher, I couldn’t find a textbook that I would want to read as a student: they were all shallow, incomprehensively written, and/or missing key stories of our nation’s history. As a result, I wrote my own -- a 380 page “warts and all” US history textbook covering Columbus through Reconstruction -- and complemented it with an entire curriculum of study guides, PowerPoints, games, projects, activities, and primary source examinations. This curriculum is focused on telling the very human story of our nation’s history from all points of view, which means it includes extensive coverage of the Native American and African American experience. For more than a decade this textbook (separated into 10 units) and the associated lessons have been and continue to be battle tested and refined in the crucible of my own 8th grade classroom. They will not disappoint.
Cliff Baker (Ye Olde History Teacher) has a BA from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and a J.D. from UC Davis. He is a former trial and appellate lawyer who switched to working with actual adolescents from adults who simply acted like them. As an 8th grade history teacher he works twice as hard, makes half as much, and won’t ever go back.
Visit me at https://yeoldehistoryteacher.com/ or follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/cliffb714.
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Marbury v. Madison and Federalist 78 primary source activity
$3.00Everybody “knows” that the Courts have the power to declare any law passed by Congress “unconstitutional,” but where did that power come from? The Constitution itself is silent on the matter, and several founding fathers,...$3.00 -
Reconstruction mini-unit, including text
$10.00As the Civil War came to its bloody conclusion, the country was faced with a monumental task: bring the Confederate states back into the body politic, rebuild the war-ravaged Southern economy, and integrate over three million former slaves into free...$10.00 -
Women in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$4.00In this mini-unit, students will learn about the unique experience of women in the Civil War. Frustrated with societal norms that prevented them from participating as men could, many women disguised themselves as men and fought, spied for their...$4.00 -
African-Americans in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$6.00Unlike the American Revolutionary War, there was no conflict or disagreement amongst African-Americans over which side to support. Although Northern policy at the beginning of the war was to preclude black participation in the war effort, both the need...$6.00 -
Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Show
$4.00Let’s face it – review and study prep for a Civil War and Reconstruction unit test is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by making a game out of it. This 106...$4.00 -
Other Battlefronts game - African Americans & women in the Civil War, with text
$5.00The Civil War presented African-Americans and women with unique opportunities and challenges. For slaves, the North provided an opportunity to escape their bondage, enlist in the army, and return to fight their former oppressors. It gave free blacks a...$5.00 -
Plessy v. Ferguson/ Brown v. Board of Education primary source analysis activity
$3.00In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of races in public life was perfectly legal under the doctrine of “separate but equal.” This ruling legitimized Jim Crow laws and second-class citizenship for...$3.00 -
Gettysburg Address primary source translation activity
$2.00President Lincoln wasn’t even on the original guest list for the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Both he and the war were highly unpopular at the time, given the appalling numbers of casualties and no end in sight. He was eventually...$2.00 -
The Civil War and Reconstruction unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit covers the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction, 1861-1876. The unit examines: the political, military, economic and social strategies, triumphs and failures of the War itself; the Emancipation Proclamation; the...$30.00 -
Dred Scott mini-unit, including text and primary source activity
$5.00In 1858, as the fight over the future of slavery in the United States was reaching fever pitch, the Supreme Court was asked to rule on the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Scott, a slave from Missouri, had lived with a previous owner both in the free...$5.00 -
American Slavery Primary Source Activity
$4.00The study of America, from its founding through the Civil War, necessitates a close examination of the enslaved peoples whose labor built this nation and the "peculiar institution" which required a horrific war to bring to an end. Part of that study...$4.00 -
US history 1788-1861 complete 3 unit bundle, including text
$75.00This multiple unit bundle covers US history from the ratification of the Constitution up to the start of the Civil War. This is a “warts and all” examination of this period of history; it is both a story of triumph and tragedy as well as one...$75.00