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New Digital History Activity: Role Playing the Cuban Missile Crisis

4/27/2015

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As the Program Director and curriculum developer for a new Gilder-Lehrman Saturday Honors Academy, I was tasked with creating a primary source driven activity for students centered on Cold War relations with Russia. At this Saturday Academy, high school juniors will hear lectures from college professors about American foreign policy relations with Russia, China, and the Middle East since World War II. After their first lecture from Professor Jonathan Bone, the students were asked to take the role of advisors and suggest a course of action to President Kennedy with regards to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 
What follows is the lesson plan and sources from that experience. My hope is that this lesson is adaptable enough that students and teachers will find it to be a useful lesson and activity in investigating the circumstances and consequences of action surrounding the tense, two-week standoff known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

You can use the Digital History tab at the top of the page to navigate the activity or follow below:

You can jump to the lesson plan here.
The primary source documents can be found here.
The student handouts can be found here.
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Cold War Presidencies: A Digital History Project

4/16/2015

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(image via: pearsoncmg)
Today, April 16th, is the 68th anniversary of the coining of the phrase "Cold War." In a speech in 1947 at the South Carolina House of Representatives, Bernard Baruch first used the term "Cold War" to describe the state of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In honor of this occasion that would forever alter the American foreign policy lexicon, we at Junior Historians are proud to unveil our latest web feature, a digital history project entitled, 
"The Cold War Presidencies."

You can begin your tour of the module by clicking the link above or by using the "Digital History" drop-down menu at the top of the page.


This resource is not just for teachers, but also for students who want to enrich their understandings of the Cold War and expand and practice the essential skills of close reading, summarizing text, and arguing with evidence. We invite you to take the module for a test run and complete the assigned work. 

Students

Share your work and experiences with the project. We'd love to post exemplary examples of multimedia projects you develop to help guide future users.

Educators
Share your thoughts, feedback, and experiences using the module. Did you try it in your classroom? How can we improve?

Looking Forward
This is only the first phase in this digital history project. We will be developing two more modules in the immediate future that examine the role of presidential campaigns and executive action in Civil Rights and the Age of Global Terror. Got an idea for a topic to explore in this framework? Please share it with us!
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