Teachers Resource Manuals
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Each Reading Through History teachers' manual features a number of lessons related to each topic, which includes a one or two-page reading passage, fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions, vocabulary exercises, and free-response essay questions.
"The Age of Exploration" includes 100 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the golden era of exploration. Topics include: Erik the Red, Marco Polo, Vasco Da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Coronado, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Robert de LaSalle, Bernard LaHarpe, a close look at the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures, and more.
"Colonial America" includes 136 pages related to the major figures and events of the colonial era of American History. Topics include: Roanoke, Jamestown, Pocahontas, Triangular Trade, the Pilgrims, Massachusetts Bay, Colonial Daily Life, Slavery in Colonial America, the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather, the First Great Awakening, Bacon's Rebellion, King Philip's War, Queen Anne's War, the Deerfield Massacre, John Peter Zenger, Benjamin Franklin, and much more.
“The American Revolution” includes 158 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the American Revolution. Topics include: the French & Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, “Common Sense”, the Second Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence, “The Crisis”, the Battle of Saratoga, Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, and much, much more.
"Early America" includes 198 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of early America. Topics include: the Northwest Ordinance, Daniel Boone, the Second Great Awakening, the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution, Washington's Farewell Address, the Alien & Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson, the Burr-Hamilton Duel, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the Lowell Mill Girls, the War of 1812, the Erie Canal, Horace Mann, Edgar Allan Poe, and much more.
"The Age of Jackson & Westward Expansion" includes nearly 150 pages of student activities related to this major time period. Topics include: Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal, Manifest Destiny, the California Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Donner Party, the Texas Revolution, the Alamo, the Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, the Pony Express, the telegraph, the transcontinental railroad, and much more.
"The Road to Civil War" includes 207 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events during the build-up to the American Civil War. Topics include slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Law, abolitionists, the development of the North, the development of the South, Eli Whitney and the cotton gin, Irish and German immigration, the Mason-Dixon Line, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Bleeding Kansas, and more.
"The Old West Vol. 1" includes 142 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the Old West era. Topics include: Post-Civil War Indian Removal and Western settlement, mining, boomtowns, the Pony Express, the telegraph, the Transcontinental Railroad, Little Bighorn, the Wounded Knee Massacre, the Ghost Dance, Native American assimilation, Chief Seattle, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Geronimo, Black Kettle, Roman Nose, Quanah Parker, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and more!
"The Old West Vol. 2" includes 162 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the Old West era. Topics include: Cowboys, Cattle trails, the Range Wars, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Lincoln County War, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Gunfight at the OK Corral, the Texas Rangers, Bat Masterson, Bass Reeves, Judge Isaac Parker, Judge Roy Bean, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, Belle Starr, Samuel Colt, John B. Stetson, and much more!
"The Gilded Age" includes nearly 200 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Topics include: the Robber Barons (Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and JP Morgan), immigration, Ellis Island, Angel Island, the inventors (Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla etc.), William Randolph Hearst, the Spanish-American War, William Jennings Bryan, Vaudeville, Harry Houdini, Spiritualism, and much more.
"The Progressive Era & World War I" includes over 180 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the early 1900s, all the way up through the conclusion of World War I. Topics include: Teddy Roosevelt and his efforts at trust busting, food and drug regulations, the Boxer Rebellion, the Roosevelt Corollary, Dollar Diplomacy, the Panama Canal, The Jungle, and Ida Tarbell; as well as the causes of World War I, trench warfare, and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points.
"The Roaring Twenties" includes 159 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of an exciting decade. Topics include: prohibition, bootleggers, speakeasies, Isolationism, the Red Scare, Nativism, Warren G. Harding, the Tea Pot Dome scandal, flappers, the Scopes Trial, Calvin Coolidge, the Scopes Trial, electricity, radio, automobiles, jazz, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, Charles Lindbergh, The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway, Babe Ruth, and much, much more.
"The Great Depression & the Dirty Thirties" includes 162 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of this difficult, yet fascinating decade. Topics include: the stock market crash, Hoovervilles, the Bonus Army, Franklin Roosevelt, the First 100 Days, the New Deal, the WPA, the CCC, the Dust Bowl, Black Blizzards, the Okies, the demagogues (Huey P. Long, Alfalfa Bill Murray etc.), Dorothea Lange, Will Rogers, Woody Guthrie, Bing Crosby, big band music, movies, and more.
"World War II" includes nearly 250 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of World War II. Topics include: the causes of World War II including the rise of Adolph Hitler, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Stalingrad, the North African campaign, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, Dresden, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the Atomic Bomb, the Holocaust (including Kristallnacht, the Ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps), and much more.
"The Forties & Korean Conflict" includes 167 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of this fabulous decade. Topics include: The Truman Administration, the Marshall Plan, the UN, NATO, the Korean Conflict, Penicillin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Howard Hughes, Roswell, the X-1, the Red Scare, McCarthyism, HUAC, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Death of a Salesman, Jackson Pollock and much more!
"The Fifties" includes 201 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of this nifty decade. Topics include: Dwight Eisenhower, the U-2 incident, Brown v. the Board, the Little Rock Nine, Emmett Till, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, McDonald's, Disneyland, Rock n' Roll, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, television, I Love Lucy, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Jim Brown, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, On the Road, the Greasers, the Beatniks and much more!
"The Cold War" includes 284 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the Cold War. Topics include: the Soviet Union, the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin Airlift, the Korean Conflict, Cold War spies, the Red Scare, civil defense, fallout shelters, the effects of nuclear weapons, the Kitchen Debate, the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, the Vietnam Conflict, Nixon goes to China, SALT, and more.
"The Sixties: Vol. 1" includes 165 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the 1960s, with a specific focus on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, as well as the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include: the Kennedy / Nixon debates, the election of 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps, the Kennedy assassination, the Great Society, Martin Luther King Jr., the March on Washington, Selma, Malcolm X, the Black Power Movement, and more.
"The Sixties: Vol. 2" includes 188 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the latter 1960s and early '70s. Topics include: the Vietnam Conflict, the Counterculture, hippies, the Human Be-In, the 1968 presidential election, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace, the Super Bowl, Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, the British Invasion, The Beatles, Woodstock, Bob Dylan, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Yippies, the Kent State Massacre, and more.
"The 1970s & 1980s" includes 161 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of two great decades in American History. Topics include: Richard Nixon, Watergate, the Wounded Knee Incident, the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, the Bicentennial Celebration, the Camp David Accords, the oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis, Ronald Reagan, Libya, the Iran-Contra affair, the Challenger disaster, Wal-Mart, AIDS, George HW Bush, the Persian Gulf War, and more.
"The 1990s & 2000s" includes 141 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the past three decades in American History. Topics include: Bill Clinton, the Branch Davidians, the Battle of Mogadishu, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the internet, the Yugoslav Wars, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the Columbine Massacre, the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush, September 11th, the War on Terror, the Afghanistan War, the Patriot Act, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, and more.
"African American History: Volume One" includes 159 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of African American History from the colonial era up through the 1940s. Topics include: the Middle Passage, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, the 13th, 14th, & 15thAmendments, Buffalo Soldiers, Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and more.
"African American History: Volume Two" includes 154 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of African American History from the 1950s up through the modern era. Topics include: Brown v. The Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, Emmett Till, the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., SNCC, the Watts Riot, Malcolm X, the Black Power Movement, and more.
"Women in American History: Volume One" includes 154 pages of activities related to the major women who have played a significant role in American History through the 1920s. Topics include: The Women's Suffrage Movement, the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, the 19th Amendment, Daily Life for American Women through the Ages, and much more.
"Women in American History: Volume Two" includes 200 pages of activities related to the major women who have played a role in American History throughout the 1800s, 1900s, as well as the modern era. Topics include: Hillary Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jeannette Rankin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maya Angelou, Katherine Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, and much more.
"Oklahoma History: Volume One" includes 167 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of Oklahoma History from the earliest native settlers up through statehood. Topics include: early exploration, Indian Removal, the Five Civilized Tribes, Worcester v. Georgia, Sequoyah, the Civil War in Indian Territory, Stand Watie, Geronimo, Black Kettle, Quanah Parker, Roman Nose, the Chisholm Trail, Belle Starr, the Boomer Movement, the land run, statehood, and much, much more.
"Oklahoma History: Volume Two" includes 177 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of Oklahoma History from the 1910s up through the modern era. Topics include: Jim Thorpe, the Green Corn Rebellion, the Tulsa Race Riot, the Dust Bowl, “Alfalfa” Bill Murray, Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Woody Guthrie, oil booms (and busts), Oklahoma!, the Oklahoma City Bombing, Kate Barnard, Wilma Mankiller, Clara Luper, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, and much, much more.
"The Great Supreme Court Cases" includes 194 pages of activities related to the landmark Supreme Court cases which have shaped America. Court cases include: Marbury v. Madison, Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. The Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Tinker v. Des Moines, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, Obergefell v. Hodges, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, an introduction to the history and procedures of the US Supreme Court, and more.
"The President & The Executive Branch" includes 101 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with America’s chief executive. Topics include: primary elections, the Electoral College, qualifications to be president, the roles of the presidency, the vice presidency, the First Lady, the Secret Service, the White House, Air Force One, the Cabinet, the bureaucracy, the presidential staff, the growth of presidential power, executive orders, impeachment, and much, much more.
"The United States Congress" includes 96 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with America’s legislative branch. Topics include: How a bill becomes a law, the House of Representatives, the Senate, Speaker of the House, committees, procedures, leadership roles, congressional apportionment, gerrymandering, filibusters, a history of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, other congressional offices, a history of the US Capitol Building, and much, much more.
"Personal Finance" includes 75 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with financial literacy. Topics include: earning an income, taxes, budgeting, financial service providers, saving for the future, credit, consumer fraud, housing, bankruptcy, gambling, charitable giving, and much more. Each of the 16 lessons has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions.
"The History of Halloween" includes 111 pages of student activities related to the history of one of America’s favorite holidays. Topics include: the origins of Halloween, the Autumn Equinox, trick-or-treating, traditional Halloween foods and games, Jack o’ Lanterns, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, black cats, spiders, bats, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Haunted Houses, Halloween around the world, and more. There are also some suggested Halloween activities and recipes.
"The History of Christmas" includes 113 pages of student activities related to the history of this wonderful holiday. Topics include: the origins of Christmas, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, traditional Christmas foods, Christmas cards, caroling, candy canes, the Magi, Christmas pageants, Christmas decorations, the twelve days of Christmas, A Christmas Carol, "Twas the Night Before Christmas", and much, much more. There are also lists of suggested Christmas films and songs.
"Holiday Round-Up" includes 246 pages of activities related to the history of every major holiday on the calendar (except Halloween and Christmas). Students will learn about the origins and traditions associated with the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, Fathers’ Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and more. Each of the 51 lessons has several pages of student activities.