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Teaching with Documents


World Book Advanced's Teaching with Documents are lesson plans focusing on one or more primary source images. The Teaching with Documents pieces feature historical background text, enlargeable images, discussion questions, worksheets, and book lists. The title list, categorized by topic, is below. New Teaching with Documents will be added regularly; check back for updates.


American Indians

Census of Cherokees in the Limits of Georgia in 1835
Native American Education
Petition for the Rights of Hopi Women
A Resolution on "The Indian Question"

Constitutional Issues

The 26th Amendment and Youth Voting Rights
Abington v. Schempp: A Study in the Establishment Clause
Bakke Syllabus
The Bill of Rights: Due Process and Rights of the Accused
Censoring the Mails: What Is Your Opinion?
Constitutional Issues Through Documents: Ex Parte Milligan
Constitutional Issues: Federalism
Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers
Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution
Declaration of the Rights of Man (and of Citizens)
Due Process and Student Rights: Syllabus of the Goss v. Lopez Decision
Plessy v. Ferguson Mandate
The Ratification of the Constitution
Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Personal Liberties
U.S. Court of Claims Deposition of Kish um us tubbee
The Weimar Constitution
The Wording of the First Amendment Religion Clauses

Environmental Issues

Fire Prevention Posters: The Story of Smokey Bear
Sierra Club Petition to Congress Protesting the Proposed Diminution of Yosemite National Park

Patents

Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent
Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire

Political Cartoons and Posters

Campaign Slogans and Fliers
Cartoon Analysis of Peace Propaganda
A Cartoonist's View of the Eisenhower Years
The Fight for Equal Rights: A Recruiting Poster for Black Soldiers in the Civil War
A Poster on Inflation
A Political Cartoon

U.S. History

A 1939 Letter of Protest: Controversy Over Public Art During the New Deal
Chinese Exclusion Forms
Documents and Discovery: Jefferson's Letter to Washington Accepting the Position of Secretary of State
Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns From the DAR: A Study in Conscience
An English Theme Written About the Relocation of Americans of Japanese Ancestry
The Homestead Act of 1862
Immigration Patterns, Public Opinion, and Government Policy
It's in the Cards: Archives and Baseball
Jackie Robinson, President Eisenhower, and the Little Rock Crisis
Letter from a Mother
A Letter to Giuseppe Garibaldi
Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln's Letter to Siam
Lincoln's Spot Resolutions
A Literacy Test
Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mapping a Mystery: The Battle of Little Bighorn
No Religious Test: A Letter to Candidate John F. Kennedy
"Out of Fear and into Peace": President Eisenhower's Address to the United Nations
Petition for a Fair Representation of African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition
The Pledge of Allegiance
President Harry S. Truman's Diary
President Kennedy's Address to the Nation on the James Meredith Case
President Nixon's Letter of Resignation
A Questionnaire on Moral Problems and Discipline, c. 1924
The Red Scare and A. Mitchell Palmer
Robert E. Lee's Resignation from the U.S. Army
Rock 'n' Roll Heroes: A Letter to President Eisenhower
Schools for Americanization
State Department Briefing Notebook for President Eisenhower
The Statue of Liberty Deed of Presentation
A Telegram from Persia
Tonkin Gulf: A Study in Historical Interpretation
Writing a Letter of Appeal

Women's History

1869 Petition: The Appeal for Woman Suffrage
Correspondence Concerning Women and the Army Air Forces in World War II
A Letter on Employment of Married Women
Surgeon General's Office
Woman's Rights to the Suffrage

World History

The Assassination of Alexander II
Cache Note from Peary's North Greenland Expedition of 1892
Charlemagne's Conquests and Alliances
Close Encounters with the Fourth Dimension
Code of Hammurabi
A Description of Venice
Diderot’s Preface to the Last Installment of the EncyclopIdie (1765)
Duties of Lord and Vassals
Extracts From The Great Charter (1215)
Grants of King Henry to the English Conquerors in Ireland
The Inquiry Into the Education of Don Henry, and His Subsequent Death in the Spanish Civil War
An Interview With Bismarck
Key Press Release on the Recognition of the State of Israel
King James on the New Fashion of Tobacco Using
A Letter of Appeal on Behalf of Raoul Wallenberg
Letter Proposing Candidates for the First U.N. Assembly
Man of the Hour...A Comparison of Leadership
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
"On Your Mark...Get Set...Go!": The Space Race
The Protection of Working Children
Robert Owen's Reasons for Expecting the Speedy Arrival of the Millennium (1841)
Rules for the Ordeal of Iron
The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection
Testimony Given By Factory Laborers to the Parliamentary Committee of 1832
Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
Trial of Socrates
Views of Metternich in Regard to the Proper Policy of the European Governments
Voltaire's views of the Relation of Church and State
The World Economy: An Early Problem for Young America

World War I

The Black Soldier in World War I
Dispatches between Kaiser and Tsar
The First Amendment: The Finished Mystery Case and World War I
German Propaganda Leaflets in World War I
The League And Mandates
The Zimmermann Telegram

World War II

Correspondence Concerning Women and the Army Air Forces in World War II
Correspondence Urging Bombing of Auschwitz during World War II
"A Date Which Will Live in Infamy": The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address
D-day Message from General Eisenhower to General Marshall
Decision at Yalta: Anna Roosevelt's Diary
Eisenhower Gives the Signal‑Operation Overlord
Letter From Hitler To Mussolini Explaining The Attack On The Soviet
Mr. Churchill's Speeches of June 18, 1940, "Their Finest Hour," and August 20, 1940, "So Much Owed by So Many to So Few"
Nazi Medical Experiment Report: Evidence from the Nuremberg Medical Trial
The Nazi Technique Of Occupation
Rights in Times of Crisis: American Citizens and Internment
Victory Gardens in World War II