How 9/11 Changed America: Four Major Lasting Impacts
Fourteen years ago the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t exist. We deported half the number of people we do...
View ArticleInteractive: Americans Killed in War, By the Numbers
America has never been a stranger to war. In our relatively short history as a nation, we’ve fought a lot of them: 11 official wars and numerous other domestic and international military conflicts that...
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Trump’s First 100 Days: What He Wants to Do; What He Can Do (with Lesson Plan)
Last updated Thursday, Feb. 9 Teach with the Lowdown Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection here. Lesson Plan:...
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MAP: How Many Refugees Did The U.S. Let In Last Year?
Talk about a whirlwind. To begin, a brief recap of the dramatic, confounding changes made to America’s immigration rules in the last week: On Jan. 27 — Holocaust Remembrance Day to be precise —...
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Coming to America: A History of Refugee Resettlement (with Lesson Plan)
Teach with the Lowdown Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection here. Lesson Plan: History of U.S. Refugee...
View ArticleYes, We’ve Done It Too: A History of U.S. Meddling in Other Countries’ Elections
With headlines like these, who needs spy novels! Revelations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have come as a shock to many Americans. And the plot keeps getting thicker....
View ArticleBryan Stevenson: On Teaching America’s Long History of Racial Injustice
America’s long legacy of racial oppression is not a history to be proud of, but it’s one that Bryan Stevenson insists needs to be acknowledged and preserved. A civil rights lawyer and social justice...
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Fighting Words: How Presidents — from FDR to Trump — Make the Case for...
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View ArticleINTERACTIVE: What Is the Paris Climate Accord and Will Trump Keep the U.S. in...
On the campaign trail last May, then-candidate Donald Trump declared: “We’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement … and stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to U.N. global warming...
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A Brief History of North Korea and How it Became One of America’s Biggest...
Teach with the Lowdown Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection here. Lesson Plan: History of North Korea (PDF) In...
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Trump Just Backed Out of the Paris Climate Deal. Here’s What the U.S. Is...
President Trump on Thursday announced plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, a landmark international agreement to reduce planet-warming emissions that nearly every country in the...
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How North Korea Became One Of America’s Biggest Security Threats (with Lesson...
Teach with the Lowdown Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection here. Lesson Plan: History of North Korea (PDF) North...
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Were the Pilgrims America’s Original Refugees?
Regardless of where you stand in the politically-heated debate over how many refugees the U.S. should take in, it’s worth considering the issue’s relevance to Thanksgiving, a holiday rooted in the...
View ArticleTIMELINE: A History of Political Controversy at the Olympics
[Scroll down for the interactive timeline] It’s kind of inevitable, right? The Olympics brings together athletes from around the world, representing their countries, in an intensely competitive...
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