This activity will ask students to trace various historical events, as well as state and national laws and their impacts on two different women in the South. Following along with a series of overlapping Twine stories, students will learn how computer programs can be constructed using simple variables and if-then statements to tell complex stories. Moreover, they will analyze how different women experienced historical events differently, leading to widely different points of view about the Civil War. 

The Problem with "Reagan Democrats;" Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

A Refugee in Puerto Rico, 1942; Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.

For a quarter century, the federal government provided funding for cities large and small to raze "blighted" or "slum" neighborhoods. Though improved housing opportunities was the ostensible goal, over time, cities used federal funds to stimulate commercial and industrial redevelopment. Through these programs, cities displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes and neighborhoods. Renewing Inequality visualizes those displacements and urban renewal more generally.

Resurrection City, 2.0; A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.

In this lesson students will investigate and describe the social and economic impacts and aftermath of riots of the 1960s using primary and secondary sources in a Google Hyperdoc.

The Supply-Side Swindle; For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?

"What is Sport to You is Death to Us."; In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.

Artists throughout time have come to their work with stories to tell, concepts to explore, and puzzles to work out. By looking at works of art with a curious and investigative eye, students may connect with these artistic ideas while exercising creative and critical thinking skills. This resource pairs objects from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection with simple engagement activities to help students thoughtfully consider and unpack the big ideas each artwork presents.

What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice; A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.

As 3rd grade students have been learning about History SOL 3.13 - this lesson integrates the content that American people have different ethnic origins and come from different countries (immigration) as well as the reading strategy of reading the author’s words and determining whether the information is directly stated (right there) or inferred based on clues from the author’s words.

When Science Was Big; This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?

Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution; The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The World According to the 1580s; A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.

Zones of Doubt; What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort to quantify the chemical properties of wool.