National
Geography History
Project
Resources for teaching history with a
geographic perspective
Michigan Geographic Alliance
New York Center for Geographic Education
Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
Croft Institute for International Studies
National
Geography History
Project
This CD Rom, Resources for Teaching History with a Geographic Perspective, was
developed to help teachers include geography while teaching the eras of world
history. It was developed under a grant from National Geographic Educational
Foundation, by partners from Michigan Geographic Alliance, New York Center for
Geographic Education, Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education, and the Croft
Institute for International Studies.
Dr. Michael Libbee, Central Michigan University
Dr. Phil Gersmehl, Hunter College
Dr. David Rutherford, Mississippi State University
Dr. Richard Boehm, Texas State University
Judy Behrens, Texas State University
Judy Lucas, Texas Geographic Alliance
Ed Bonne, Michigan Geographic Alliance
This is a draft product. Using the matrix,
choose a topic and an era. Clicking on that
box will take you to the name of the lesson (s)
and a url. Click on the url to find the website.
To 1789
1789-1865
1865-1900
1900-1945
1945 On
Cultural
Patterns
Enlightenment
Expansion of Slavery
Reconstruction
Rising Middle Class
Civil Rights,
Aids
Economics
Mercantilism
Cotton Kingdom
Industrialization
New Deal
High Tech Industry
Globalization
Environment
Physical Regions
Louisiana Purchase
Sod Busting
Deforestation
National Parks
Dust Bowl
EPA
Geo-Politics
Revolution
War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
Imperialism
World Wars
Cold War
Korea and Vietnam
Migration
Discovery
Lewis and Clark
Germans/Irish
“New” Europeans
South to North
Farm to City
3rd World Immigrants
Regional
Differences
Types of Colonies
Sectionalism
Civil War
The West
Resources
Colonial Agriculture
Pioneers
Great Lakes
Homesteading
Cattle, Mining
Farm Machinery, Oil,
Fishing
Green Revolution
Settlement
Colonization
Manifest Destiny
Mexican War
Westward Movement
Alaska
Imperialism
Sunbelt
Social Patterns
Native Americans
Reform Movement,
Underground Railroad
Populism
Progressives
Canals, Trails
Railroads
Aviation
Small Town America
Industrial Belt
Transportation
Urbanization
Port Cities
Interstate Highways
Suburbs
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The Enlightenment
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Mercantilism
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Physical Regions
• Regions: A Hands-on Approach
www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas912/912regi
ons.html
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The Revolution
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Discovery
• The Vinland Map
www.school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/sciencemyste
ries
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Types of Colonies
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Colonial Agriculture
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Colonization
• Mapping Colonial New England
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=716
• Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Sailor
www.memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/tinker/overview.html
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Native Americans
• From the Land, of the Land
www.educationworld.com/a_techlp/techlpo59.shtml
• Interpreting Rock Art of the Anasazi
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/12/gk2/rockart.html
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Transportation to 1789
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Port Cities
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Expansion of Slavery
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Cotton Kingdom
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Louisiana Purchase
• Louisiana Purchase
www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/education/louisianapurchase
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War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=574
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Lewis and Clark
Germans
Irish
• Lewis and Clark’s Journey West: A Timeline
www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp296-03.shtml
• Challenges of River Travel
www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/11.html
• Ancestors in the Americas
www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheAmericas/viewerguides.html
• German Immigrants in the Upper Midwest
www.memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/german/intro.html
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Sectionalism
Civil War
• Before Brother Fought Brother
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=484
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Manifest Destiny
Mexican War
• Establishing Borders
www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lessonplans/borders/lesson1.html
• Mexican War
www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/
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Reform Movement
Underground Railroad
• Underground Railroad
• www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/lp2/htm
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Canals and Trails
• Go West—Imagining the Oregon Trail
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=277
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Small Town America
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Reconstruction
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Industrialization
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/index.html
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Sod Busting
Deforestation
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Imperialism
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“New” Europeans
• Migration: Why We Move
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/gk2/migrations.html
• Human Migration: Cultural Landscape
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/humanmigratio
n.html
• Human Migration into the US
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g912/migration.html
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The West
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Homesteading
Cattle
Mining
• Life on the Great Plains
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=265
• Bring No Poor Articles With You
www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/resources/lp3.html
• Boomtown to Ghost Town
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/16/g35/boomtown.html
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Westward Movement
Alaska
• Harriman Alaska Expedition
www.pbs.org/harriman/education/lessonsplans/key_figures.html
• Demise of the Great American Frontier
www.pbs.org/fmc/lessons/lesson1.htm
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Populism
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Railroads
• I Hear the Locomotives—Transcontinental RR
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=253
• Planning a Railroad
www.learncalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=301
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Industrial Belt
• Carl Sandburg’s Chicago
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=678
• Urban Growth in America
www.school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/Urbangrowth
America/
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Rising middle class
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New Deal
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National Parks
Dust Bowl
• Dust Bowl Days
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=300
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World Wars
• How to Win a World War
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=704
• The War
www.pbs.org/thewar/edu_lessons.htm
• World War II: The Pacific
www.school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/worldwarII
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South to North
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Regional Differences
1900-1945
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Farm Machinery
Oil
Fishing
• Sea Changes: Fishing In New England
www.memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/00/sea/overview.html
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Imperialism
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Progressives
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Aviation
• The Wright Brothers Adventure
www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials
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Urbanization
1900-1945
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Civil Rights
Aids
• Ordinary People, Ordinary Places
• www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id353
• HIV/AIDS
• www.prb.org/educators/lessonplans/2005
• Spread of AIDS
• www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g912/tr
ade.html
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High Tech Industry
Globalization
• Effects of Globalization
www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/classroom/lp2.html
• Globalization
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/10/g912/globalization.h
tml
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EPA
• About A Tree: the work of Mark Olson
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/06/g912/molson.html
• Water Use
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson08.htm
• Estuaries
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/11/g912/tgestuaries.ht
ml
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Cold War
Korea and Vietnam
• Origins of the Cold War
www.edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?688
• US Trade Embargo on Cuba
www.pbs.org/now/classroom/cuba.html
• The Role of NATO
www.school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/nato/
• Submarines in the Cold War
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions.lessons/13.g68/k19heated.htm
l
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3rd World Immigrants
• Migration—Sudan to US
www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/09/g68/ggtul.html
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Regional Difference
1945 On
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Green Revolution
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Sunbelt
• Geography Coast to Coast
www.baseballhalloffame.org/experience/thematic_units
• People on the Move
www.prb.org/educators/lessonplans/2005
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Social Patterns
1945 On
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Interstate Highways
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Suburbs
• Traditional Town and Modern Suburbs
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/12/gk2/sprawltrad.html
• Design your own suburb
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/12/g35/sprawldesign.ht
ml
• What to do about Sprawl
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/12/g68/sprawlwhat.htm
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• Life on the Edge
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/12/g912/fringe.html