Unit Title	Author
2020
Welcome to America: Enslaved Diasporic and Indigenous People	Jeri Johnson, M.S. Ed., M.S. School Psychology
Keywords: indigenous people, Slavery, Afircan American History, American History
Teaching African American Culture Through Cinema	Chanelle Harley
Keywords: film, History, African American culture, community, cinema, American History
The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: film, History, American History, Civil Rights Movement
2019
Rich or King “Founding” Fathers or Mothers’ Mythology	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: king, mythology, Humanities, founding fathers, American History
2018
Learning Through the Lens: How Hollywood Shapes the Way We View History	Andrea Ferentchak
Keywords: Media, History activity, Reading, American History, Creative Writing
Reds in Tinseltown: The Cold War, Hollywood, and Blacklisting	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: Media, Media Strategies, Media Studies, Entertainment industry, World War II, World politics, Propaganda, Pop culture, Politics, American History, Cinematography, Cold War
2017
Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: Literature, Jazz History, Musicology, Music Studies, Music History, Jazz Studies, Jazz, Grades 9-12, Swing Music, World War II, The Jazz Age, The Harlem Renaissance, African American History, American History, Bebop
2015
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on 18th Century Philadelphia	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: literature of Haitian Revolution, Middle school social studies, French negroes in Philadelphia, gens de couleur libres, French slaves in Philadelphia, Global Studies, free people of color, francophone, Exclusif, Girondists, Jacques Pierre Brissot, grands blancs, high school history, Haitians in Philadelphia, Haitian Revolution, Haitian rebellion, Haiti, Sonthonax, Societie des Amis des Noir, Stephen Girard, small whites, world history, tenth grade African American History, Polverel, Philadelphia 18th century history, petty whites, petits blancs, ninth grade World History, slave uprising, Saint Domingue rebellion, Saint Domingue slave revolution, Saint Domingue refugees in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue civil war, Saint Dominguan slaves in Philadelphia, affranchise, African American History, 18th century Philadelphia, American History, class division in Saint Domingue, Code Noir of 1685, eleventh grade American History, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 18th century Philadelphia merchants, big whites
The Panama Canal: Path to Global Destiny	Patrick Naughton
Keywords: Geography, Socratic Seminar, yellow fever, Panama Canal, Roosevelt, engineering, Empire, American History
The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: Memorial Day, vietnam war, American empire, American History
Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?	Meagan C. Rubino
Keywords: Puerto Rico, American empire, American History, Empire
2014
The Seminole and African Collaboration: An Alliance for Survival	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: Zachary Taylor, Luis Fatio Pacheco, La Florida, John Horse, John Caesar, Native American History, Mikasuki, Micconuppe, Micanopy, Geechee, freedom fighters, Francis L. Dade, First Battle of Withlacoochee, History, Gullah, Negro Fort Massacre, St. Augustine, St. John Slave Revolt, Wild Cat, Tuskegee, Thomas Sidney Jesup, Osceola, Seminoles, Seminole maroons, Seige of Camp Izard, Second Battle of Withlacoochee, runaway slaves, Alachua chief, Abraham, African American History, American History, Coacoochee, Colonial Florida, Dade’s Massacre, Edmund P. Gaines, Duncan Clinch, Destruction of St. John’s Sugar Plantations, Battle of Lockahatchee, Battle at Jupiter Inlet, Ben Bruner, Andrew Jackson, Asi Yahola, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Black Seminoles, Battle of Okeechobee, Battle at Hatcheelustee Creek
Whispering Rivers: Whatever Happened to the Indians of Pennsylvania?	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: Native American issues, Native American History, Native American, Native Americans, History, Historical Context, Political Activism, political unrest, Political thought, Pennsylvania History, American History
2013
The Civil Rights Era	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: American History, civil rights, civil rights era
2012
Liberty and Justice for (Not) All	Rita Sorrentino
Keywords: liberty, justice, Reconstruction, American History, civil rights era
“Can We All Get Along?” Evaluating Racism in the Media	Elisabeth R. Yucis
Keywords: Media, racism, American History
2011
Allegory and America: Analyzing the work of Virginia Lee Burton	Kate Reber
Keywords: literary devices, Virginia Lee Burton, American History
Marcellus Shale: Finding Common Ground	Troy J. Holiday
Keywords: marcellus shale, geology, Environmental Science, American History
African American History as told through African American Music	Sue Christmas
Keywords: Media, Music, African American music, American History
2010
Here’s Lookin’ At You, Kid Growing Up in America Through Art and Literature	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: American History, childhood