PROJECT: Soul of America
PARTNER: Kunhardt Films
MATERIALS CREATED:
A full curriculum of six classroom lessons to encourage educators and students to dive deeper into the historical content examined in the case studies explored in Soul of America.
Lesson One: Historical Thinking and “The Soul of America”
Lesson Two: Women’s Suffrage
Lesson Three: FDR and Japanese American Incarceration
Lesson Four: Senator McCarthy and the Press
Lesson Five: LBJ and MLK
Lesson Six: Our Better Angels and Our Worst Instincts Today
Each lessons has curated film clips from the feature documentary, primary source materials, and recommendations for additional research using the Interview Archive.