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The following are links designed primarily to help teachers plan lessons that coordinate with those in the 20th Century Interactive project. Also, links for each unit are listed separately from this page.

If you have a favorite link that works well with the project, please send it to us so that we can add it to the list!

In addition to participating in the 20th Century Interactive discussion forum, teachers may want to get involved with H-Ohio a website that provides teaching resources on the history and culture of the state of Ohio.

If a field trip can be included for students studying issues involved in the 20th Century Interactive project, consider contacting the following organizations:

General History Online Resources for Teachers

While there are many history resources online for teachers to use, one of the best comes from Emporia University. Teaching History - Teaching Resources and Teaching History - A Journal of Methods has great information and sources for teachers new to the field or those who've been in the field for many years. One link on that page that may prove useful is to a site that can help teachers check for plagiarism.

The American History Association also has information for teachers on its website, from help on convincing students why it's important to study history, to a selection of excellent links for history and social study teachers.

To Drink and To Vote - The Campaigns for Prohibition and Women's Suffrage

The Anti-Saloon League is a great website, complete with "dry arguments," "dry propaganda," political cartoons and photographs of the Anti-Saloon League offices and workers. There are also political cartoons and descriptions featuring the efforts of police to enforce the prohibition statutes, particularly in light of the tax revenue the government got from the liquor trades.

Other illustrations that can help show the powerful propaganda that was circulated for the prohibition movement can be found at The Ram's Horn's Views of the Liquor Traffic and Prohibiton site, compiled by scholars at Ohio State University. The Ram's Horn was published in Chicago, Illinois during the 1890s and the early years of the twentieth century by Frederick L. Chapman & Company.

The Westerville Public Library has a website titled "Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933" that provides a list of classroom activities that can be incorporated into the 20th Century Interactive studies.

A description of the suffrage movement in Ohio, along with details of the contents of an excellent special collection can be found at the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. The collection includes diaries, papers, correspondence, scrapbooks and legal documents obtained from women who were activists in the woman suffrage movement in Dayton.

The National Archives and Records Administration features primary sources and activities for Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment.

Political cartoons also appeared during the Suffrage Movement. Political Cartoons and Cartoonists features the suffrage movement. On the home page, type "suffrage" into the search box on the left side of the page, hit "enter" and you'll get descriptions and links in increments of ten.

Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has written a history of women voters in the state.

No Strength Without Unions?

The Illinois Labor History Labor History Society has "A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers."

For additional study, students can visit one of Ohio State History Department's world wide projects on industrial revolution, which features stories on labor-management conflict and the workers and people of the steel industry.

The University of Albany has a serious collection of labor speeches at U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive. All the files are RealPlayer or MediaPlayer compatible.

Ohio State University features Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, which includes political cartoons dealing with labor.

The Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University is devoted to the study of working-class life and culture and serves as a clearinghouse for information on those topics.

American Labor History - An Online Study Guide gives an overview of labor in the U.S., defines terms and lists resources for further study.

Housing the Great Migration

For teachers and students who are interested in further exploration on writing history, How to Write and Publish Local History offers insight on the process. While the book also includes information on publishing, early chapters offer advice on assembling ideas and the style and structure of writing.

Writing History and Writing Fiction is a Virtual Conference on writing historical fiction. The participants are all academic historians who have published both works of history and fiction and have interesting insight into teaching history by using fiction.

A Student's Guide to the Study of History - Why Write History? are a teacher's thoughts on ways to empower students in their work. The rest of the guide is also useful for students who need help in writing essays and choosing topics.

Why Study or Write History? for when the classic methods of persuasion aren't working, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke offers a page of possible insights into those questions.

Mississippi Burning

LessonPlansPage.com contains a number of great lessons involving African American History, including one on the Civil Rights Movement.

A lesson plan titled "The Fight for Civil Rights" for grades 9-12 deals with problem solving issues and requires three 50-minute class periods.

The National Civil Rights Museum web site features an interactive tour that can both teach and engage students who need or want additional study time or a way to learn about the subject on their own.

An incredibly complete lesson plan intended for high school students has been developed and is based on a PBS documentary, which is available through the public library and sometimes through your local public television station. "Eyes on the Prize: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1954 to 1965" can be used as a ten to fifteen day mini course or as a supplement to a lesson or unit in the 20th Century Interactive project. The lesson was developed by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Another lesson from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute is American Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Explored Through the Literature of Eloise Greenfield examines the history of women who worked for civil rights in the mid-20th century.