Using Essex History Lesson Plan
How did the Jim Crow culture help perpetrate stereotypical myths of African Americans and how did these myths contribute to segregation and denial of civil rights of African Americans?

Historiography and Jim Crow in popular culture

It's Not Funny:  Jim Crow in Popular Culture
What’s wrong with stereotypes? How have stereotypical depictions of African Americans hindered their opportunities?

Dred Scott, Plessy, and Jim Crow in Massachusetts
To what extent was Jim Crow prevalent in Massachusetts?

Long before the busing crisis: Boston school desegregation in 1854
How were citizens of Boston able to justify the segregation of school children in schools? How was desegregation in Boston schools a foreshadowing of what the rest of the nation would experience 100 years later with the Brown decision?

Jim Crow:  Racial Segregation in the United States
What were Jim Crow Laws and how do they impact racism in the United States?

The China Trade and its Effects
Describing the origins of the China trade and how it evolved out of conditions following the American Revolution and the War of 1812

Letters to Loved Ones
Understanding the importance of the China Trade to Salem and the United States.

Abraham Lincoln-Fredrick Douglass Slavery
Students will understand the differing views slavery held by Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass, and the question of Constitutionalism.

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass:  Influences on Emancipation and “The Great Emancipator”

More on “Who Freed the Slaves?”
Students will be able to list and explain the roles of the following people and groups who played a role in freeing the slaves:  Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, Abolitionists, Congress, and the Military.

Orations on Lincoln
Perceiving different perspectives of Abraham Lincoln and discovering new views on Emancipation and Reconstruction
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The Early Cold War
Students will be able to define and understand the causes and effects of the Truman Doctrine, the Baruch Plan and the Marshall Plan, as well as evaluate the successes or failures of these programs. 

Americans and the Cold War
Learning how US –Soviet relations change in the post-WWII era.

US—Relations Prior to 1950
SWBAT identify features of the Cold War, both as an international affair, and as it affected the privacy of citizens and individual rights.

Massachusetts Reacts to the Truman-MacArthur Controversy of the Korean War

The Age of Progress?
How the liberal governmental policies of the 1960s contributed to the Rise of the Modern Republican Party

Reagan’s Conservatism:  Lasting Coalition?

1980s-The Era of Reagan
Students will understand the roots of the modern Conservative movement by examining the coalition of issues that Ronald Reagan was able to successfully articulate

Does Roosevelt Belong on Mount Rushmore?
Students will be able to compare and contrast the accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt with other US Presidents.

The Messiness of Labels:  TR as Progressive (Nonetheless)

Thirteen or Twenty-Six: How many colonies were involved in the American Revolution?
Students will understand the valuable relationship between the North American colonies and the British Caribbean and their relationship to imperial policy
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“Promises to Keep:  JFK’s Civil Rights Record”
How well did John F. Kennedy keep his presidential campaign promises regarding civil rights?  What effect did the Cold War have on Kennedy’s civil rights policies?

Building a Neighborhood: Immigration to Beverly in the 19th & 20th Centuries

Teaching Immigration through a Transnational and Global Approach

Sugar: The Tempting Force behind A Revolution
Was England wise in governing their twenty-six colonies: was the Sugar Act worth losing the thirteen mainland colonies? What significance did the Sugar Act carry in causing the American Revolution and how has it sugar shaped American history?

Connections: Women in the Abolitionist Movement and Suffrage Movement
Using primary sources, students will understand the connection between women in the abolition movement and the suffrage movement.