A 24-page manual provides principals, educators, and other school personnel with factual information about sexual orientation development, important legal principles they must consider, and problematic efforts to change sexual...

The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...

Read to find out why controversy in science can actually be productive and help science progress.

Digital repository of information and documentation of a controversy in 1920s North Carolina over the teaching of evolution. Includes a timeline of events, access to primary sources addressing both sides of the debate, and biographies of...

Activity in which students act as detectves to investigate an historical issue. In this activity students analyze primary source material to learn about controversy surrounding the U.S. Constitution when they are asked to find out what...

A digital exhibit of a selection of primary source materials that document many of the controversies surrounding the death penalty in North Carolina.

A quick comprehension check over cultural and political controversies of the 1920s.

Addison Anderson recounts the controversial origins of the first encyclopedia. [5:20]

This set of lesson plans contains background information on the teacher and school featured in the one hour video Workshop 7: Controversial Public Policy Issues.

Practice your skills in this exercise on controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age.

Inspired by a meeting at a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, this article is a summary of the main points made by presenter Professor H. Douglas Brown. Teaching students to be respectful citizens can...

Inspired by a meeting at a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, this article is a summary of the main points made by presenter Professor H. Douglas Brown. Teaching students to be respectful citizens can...

Using ten primary source documents, high school students will write a 2 1/2 page interpretive history of Puritan Society focusing on the antinomian controversy in Massachusetts.

The 2002 democratic election in Mali is facing controversy. Candidates are challenging the vote count, many voters did not turn out, voting was halted due to technical problems, and more. No final results have been announced.(May 1,2002)

The nullification controversy began as an economic dispute between north and south. See how the question about tariffs resulted in a states' rights issue in South Carolina. Read about what President Andrew Jackson was going to do about...

Students are introduced to the Monte Hall Paradox and the storm of controversy it provoked when it appeared in the Ask Marilyn column of Parade Magazine. The letters and testimonials challenge students and generate animated classroom...

This website from the Lehigh University provides a fresh way of approaching the old question of the need for the atom bomb. The site also outlines the controversy over how this historical event should be remembered and represented,...

A brief, but thorough, explanation of the controversy and antagonism between Gifford Pinchot and Richard Ballinger concerning conservation and the government's role in protecting public land. Read how this issue caused a rift in the...

Introductory information concerning Shakespeare's biography and the controversy surrounding it. Clear and concise information.

Primary sources help students understand issues and controversies surrounding the American Indian Reservations of the 1870s. Historians provide different accounts and views of this facet of American history, and students utilize these...

President Obama signed into law a historic health care bill; making the most dramatic changes to the American health care system in four decades. Follow the details of the bill, its history, and the controversy behind this historic bill,...

The National Humanities Center provides an essay on the issue, circumstances and explanations for the growing radicalism of the Colonists in the years leading up to the constitution.

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One of the most enduring myths in American history is the belief that the Puritans fled to America in search of religious liberty. Unfortunately, this belief is at best only a half-truth, The Puritans were strict religious people who...