Downloads

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Current Programs and Brochures

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Emerging America Workshop Materials

BLANK CES TPS Lesson Plan

Primary Source Analysis Tools

Grade 5 Performance Assessment: Comparing Differing Points of View of the Same Historical Event (Boston Massacre)
Rubric for Grade 5 Performance Assessment: Comparing Differing… (etc.)

News

The Hampshire Gazette. New website offers glimpse into Northampton history through real people (10-20-10)

Owen Boss, The Hampshire Gazette. Easthampton Teacher Takes History Honors (6-12-10)

Katie Breault, The Register (Ludlow). Student Web Site Presents History of Ludlow (8-20-08)

Ashleigh Pyecroft, Hampshire Gazette. Where History Still Lives, Valley Offers Vestiges of the Nation’s Earliest Days. (8-20-08)

Jennifer Huberdeau, The Transcript. Drury Students Look at North Adams History (5-13-08)

Ted LaBorde, Springfield Republican. Students Net Reams of History (7-09-07)

Fred Contrada, Springfield Republican. Students Put History Online (7-01-07)

Holly Angelo, Springfield Republican. (1-19-07)

Massachusetts Department of Education guide to the History and Social Science MCAS, published Feb. 26, 2007

Bob Paquette, WFCR Radio, NPR News & Music for Western New England “45 Teachers Learn to be Historians at 2006 Emerging American Teaching American History Institute.” (07-20-06)

Sources

Hadley Deed, 1660 from Indian Deeds of Hampden County

Alien and Sedition Acts 1798

Preamble to the A.F.L. Constitution, 1886

National Referendum B, May 5, 1917

Immigration Act of 1917

The National Labor Relations Act or the Wagner Act, 1935

Reminiscences of Frederick Chouteau. Kansas State Historical Society, Volume 8 (1903-04)