List of Reading Like a Historian Lessons - SHEG

I'm doing some professional development right now from Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) and I just wanted to share their current list of Reading Like a Historian history lessons.

In Waldorf, true history begins in 6th grade, starting with World History (Greek and Roman History, the Middle Ages). 7th grade includes the Age of Exploration and the Renaissance & Reformation. 8th grade includes the Age of Revolution and U.S. History to the present day. History is covered chronologically, so U.S. History is not taught until when the U.S. began! There's a lot of U.S. History to cover, so it's a good idea to be prepared with a short list of trusted resources, and SHEG delivers.

These lessons are all FREE and they are fantastic!!! All based on primary sources and include tension (conflicting information between the viewpoints) that gives students great practice in critical thinking.

Highly Recommended!

Introduction Lesson Plans
Lunchroom Fight I	Make Your Case!
Lunchroom Fight II	Snapshot Autobiography
Evaluating Sources
Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts
Close Reading	Contextualization
Corroboration	Historical Thinking Chart
Sourcing	What is History?
U.S. History
Unit 1: Colonial
Examining Passenger Lists	Mapping the New World
Pocahontas	The Puritans
The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons	King Philip's War
Salem Witch Trials	Portola Expedition
California Missions
Unit 2: Revolutionary and Early America
Great Awakening	Stamp Act
American Revolution SAC	Boston Massacre
Loyalists	Battle of Lexington
Declaration of Independence	Shays' Rebellion OUT
Federalists and Anti-Federalists	Slavery in the Constitution
Hamilton v. Jefferson
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery
Manifest Destiny	Second Middle Passage
Slavery Narratives	Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark SAC	Freedom's Journal
Texas Revolution	Irish in 19th-Century America
Gold Rush and San Francisco	Evaluating Sources on Juana Briones
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction
John Brown's Motivation	Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction SAC	Sharecropping
Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons	Fort Sumter
Civil War Photographs
Unit 5: The Gilded Age
Battle of Little Bighorn	Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Great Plains Homesteaders	Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
Albert Parsons SAC	Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike	Populism and the Election of 1896
1898 North Carolina Election
Unit 6: American Imperialism
Annexation of Hawaii	Maine Explosion
Spanish-American War	Soldiers in the Philippines
Philippine-American War Political Cartoons
Unit 7: Progressive Era
Background on Woman Suffrage	Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
Child Labor	Jacob Riis
Political Bosses	Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
Settlement House Movement SAC	Edward Curtis
Anti-Suffragists
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s
Marcus Garvey	Great Migration
Sedition in WWI	U.S. Entry into WWI
Porvenir Massacre	Chicago Race Riots of 1919
League of Nations	Palmer Raids
Prohibition	Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s
Scopes Trial	Sacco and Vanzetti
Unit 9: New Deal and World War II
Mexican Migration in the 1930s	The Dust Bowl
New Deal SAC	Social Security
Migrant Mother Photograph	Japanese American Incarceration
Ansel Adams at Manzanar	Zoot Suit Riots
The Atomic Bomb
Unit 10: Cold War
The Cold War	Korean War OUT
Truman and MacArthur	Guatemala OUT
Castro and the United States	Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Unit 11: Cold War Culture/Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement Photos	NAACP Letters
Public Housing	Women in the 1950s
Little Rock Nine	Montgomery Bus Boycott
John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights	Great Society
Anti-Vietnam War Movement	Stonewall Riots
Equal Rights Amendment
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s
Reaganomics SAC	AIDS Crisis
Iran-Contra Affair	Kyoto Protocol
NAFTA	Iraq Resolution
Hurricane Katrina
World History Lessons
Unit 1: Ancient
Hammurabi's Code	Athenian Democracy SAC
Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem	Battle of Thermopylae
Roman Republic	Fall of the Qin Dynasty
Confucianism and Daoism	Augustus
Cleopatra	Attila and Pope Leo
Roman Empire and Christianity
Unit 2: Medieval
The Dark Ages	Expansion of the Islamic Empire
First Crusade	Teotihuacan
Mansa Musa	Ibn Battuta
The Black Death in Florence	Understanding the Black Death
Inca Empire	Martin Luther
Moctezuma and Cortés	La Malinche
Moctezuma's Zoo	Aztec Encyclopedia
Atahualpa and the Bible	Galileo
Unit 3: Modern
The Middle Passage	Reign of Terror
Portola Expedition	Factory Life
The Sepoy Rebellion	Battle of Adwa
Battle of the Somme	Armistice
Atatürk and Women's Rights in Turkey	Women's War of 1929
Invasion of Nanking	Appeasement
Nazi Propaganda	India Partition
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba	China's Cultural Revolution
The Atomic Bomb	The Cold War
The Korean War	Cold War in Guatemala
Castro and the United States	Cuban Missile Crisis
Iran-Contra Affair