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The Vietnam War offers a powerful lens for examining issues of class, race, and ethnicity during an especially volatile time in American history.

The “images” of the Vietnam War and the messages sent by the news media and how they influenced the public perceptions about the war.

Lessons will explore how the war affected domestic politics, the civil rights movement, the elections, popular culture.

Lessons will explore the degree of understanding and the many misunderstandings Americans have about Vietnam, it’s people and it’s struggles.

Why Vietnam?  What were the root causes of the war from a geopolitical perspective? From a bi-polar perspective? Through a Cold War lens?

Explore classroom lesson plans related to Ken Burns's and Lynn Novick’s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, which tells the story of one of the most consequential, divisive…

Lessons will explore the different political, military and other motivations that influenced the decisions of five U.S. presidents and take a close-up look at American leadership and politics.

Initially, the US strategy was to fight a conventional war, but this war had no conventional front line.

Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America. Was the American Revolution inevitable? 

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Students will learn how the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution was shaped by historical events and how it reflected the fundamental values and principles of a newly independent nation.