Unit Title	Author
2020
The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Pearl Jonas
Keywords: History, film, American History, Civil Rights Movement
Teaching African American Culture Through Cinema	Chanelle Harley
Keywords: History, film, African American culture, American History, cinema, community
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
2019
Rich or King “Founding” Fathers or Mothers’ Mythology	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: king, mythology, founding fathers, Humanities, 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 Studies, Media Strategies, World War II, World politics, Propaganda, Pop culture, Politics, American History, Cinematography, Cold War, Entertainment industry
2017
Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology	Matthew Menschner
Keywords: Literature, Musicology, Music Studies, Music History, Jazz Studies, Grades 9-12, Jazz History, Jazz, World War II, Swing Music, 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, Global Studies, Girondists, gens de couleur libres, French slaves in Philadelphia, French negroes in Philadelphia, free people of color, francophone, grands blancs, Haiti, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Haitian rebellion, high school history, Haitians in Philadelphia, Haitian Revolution, Sonthonax, Societie des Amis des Noir, Stephen Girard, small whites, world history, tenth grade African American History, ninth grade World History, Polverel, Philadelphia 18th century history, petty whites, petits blancs, slave uprising, Saint Domingue rebellion, Saint Domingue slave revolution, Saint Domingue refugees in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue civil war, Saint Dominguan slaves in Philadelphia, Exclusif, African American History, affranchise, American History, 18th century Philadelphia merchants, 18th century Philadelphia, eleventh grade American History, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Code Noir of 1685, big whites, class division in Saint Domingue
Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?	Meagan C. Rubino
Keywords: Puerto Rico, American empire, American History, Empire
The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam	Sydney Hunt Coffin
Keywords: Memorial Day, vietnam war, American empire, American History
The Panama Canal: Path to Global Destiny	Patrick Naughton
Keywords: Geography, Socratic Seminar, yellow fever, Panama Canal, Roosevelt, American History, Empire, engineering
2014
The Seminole and African Collaboration: An Alliance for Survival	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: Zachary Taylor, Luis Fatio Pacheco, La Florida, John Caesar, Native American History, Micanopy, Mikasuki, Micconuppe, John Horse, Negro Fort Massacre, Geechee, Gullah, Francis L. Dade, First Battle of Withlacoochee, History, St. John Slave Revolt, St. Augustine, Wild Cat, Tuskegee, Thomas Sidney Jesup, Osceola, Seminoles, Seminole maroons, Seige of Camp Izard, Second Battle of Withlacoochee, runaway slaves, freedom fighters, Abraham, African American History, Alachua chief, American History, Destruction of St. John’s Sugar Plantations, Edmund P. Gaines, Duncan Clinch, Dade’s Massacre, Colonial Florida, Coacoochee, Black Seminoles, Ben Bruner, Andrew Jackson, Battle of Lockahatchee, Asi Yahola, Battle of Okeechobee, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Battle at Jupiter Inlet, 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, History, Historical Context, Native Americans, Political Activism, political unrest, Political thought, Pennsylvania History, American History
2013
The Civil Rights Era	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: civil rights era, civil rights, American History
2012
“Can We All Get Along?” Evaluating Racism in the Media	Elisabeth R. Yucis
Keywords: Media, racism, American History
Liberty and Justice for (Not) All	Rita Sorrentino
Keywords: liberty, justice, Reconstruction, civil rights era, American History
2011
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
Allegory and America: Analyzing the work of Virginia Lee Burton	Kate Reber
Keywords: literary devices, Virginia Lee Burton, American History
2010
Encounters of the First Kind: Early U.S. and Middle East Relations	Mona Kolsky
Keywords: Middle East History, oil, American History