Lessons
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Booms and Busts: A Century of American Population Data
National Population and IdentityStudents use census data from 1910–2020 to investigate how historical forces shape population change, interpreting trends and connecting shifts like the Great Depression and the...
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The Data Behind Industrial America
Industrialization and the Gilded AgeBetween 1860 and 1910 the United States became the world's largest industrial economy — but who benefited? Students test two competing primary sources (Carnegie's Gospel of...