This course challenges students to further refine their analytical essay writing, research skills, and ability to use both primary and secondary sources to understand and
compare significant historical events and themes.
For more than 40 years, Facing History and Ourselves has worked in middle school and high school classrooms, providing tools for teachers and students to think critically about the impact
of significant historical events.
Alderson Court Reporting has memorialized the testimony
from significant historical events across the United States since 1938, literally chronicling the pages of our nation's history.
The plot of a lesson could encompass the lead - up to
a significant historical event; or it could engage students in how the scientific method works; or it could help students uncover the proof of a mathematical theorem.
Each presentation describes
a significant historical event for each day of the month.
Bradford came of age in the 1980s, witnessing the destruction of his primary communities of identification by two
significant historical events: the HIV / AIDS crisis which decimated the gay scene in Los Angeles and other major metropolitan centers, and the 1992 Rodney King riots, which rekindled much of the latent anger within L.A.'s African American neighborhoods that the 1965 Watts Rebellion had exposed a generation prior.