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Now in its 5th edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons, projects, and activities.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface "The Work of the Future" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Centralizing the History of Slavery, Racism, and Resistance: Why Race Still Matters -- Teaching Notes -- Teaching Notes -- 1 Most of the "Founders" Were Not Abolitionists, but Some from New York Were -- The Deleted Passage (1776) -- Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, President of the Continental Congress (1779) -- Rejected Motion at the New York State Constitutional Convention (1777) -- An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1799) -- An Act Relative to Slaves and Servants (1817) -- Tredwell's Address to the New York State Constitutional Ratification Convention (1788) -- Frederick Douglass and the Constitution (1849, 1860) -- Teaching Notes -- 2 Resistance! Resistance! Resistance!: New York State's Radical Black Abolitionists and the Coming of the Civil War -- Henry Highland Garnet Calls for Resistance (1843) -- Battling Slavecatchers in Buffalo -- Resisting the Fugitive Slave law -- Teaching Notes -- 3 Abolition on the Margins -- Teaching Notes -- 4 Narratives of Slavery and Escape: The Importance of Solomon Northup -- Teaching Notes -- 5 We May Never Know the Real Harriet Tubman -- William Still on Harriet Tubman -- Harriet Tubman in the Newspapers -- Teaching Notes -- 6 New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations -- Teaching Notes -- 7 Lincoln at Gettysburg: Were All Men Created Equal? -- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Teaching Notes -- New York Senator William Seward Battles against Slavery -- 8 The New York Press, Racism, and the Presidential Election of 1864 -- Teaching Notes -- 9 Abolition: From Marginalization to Emancipation -- Teaching Notes -- 10 "The Execration of History": New York's Opposition to Congressional Reconstruction -- Teaching Notes -- 11 Politics of Historical Memory -- Teaching Notes -- References -- Index

Student activism and civics education -- A wave of student activism -- Pablo's story -- Alan's story -- What do state and national standards say? -- Pablo's pedagogy -- Rights and responsibilities as teachers -- Integrating activism across the K-12 curriculum -- Undocumented immigrants and immigration reform -- Forum club -- New York and slavery walking tour -- Uniondale students protest gun violence -- Hempstead Freedom Walkers -- Save our schools -- Occupy Wall Street -- Metal detectors in schools -- Citizenship for the 21st Century.