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Peer reviewedPotter, Lee Ann; Schamel, Wynell – Social Education, 2001
Provides historical background on how President Richard Nixon selected someone as vice president after Spiro T. Agnew resigned due to criminal charges. Provides background information on his choice, Gerald Ford, and discusses the process of how Ford officially became vice president. Includes a document from the Nixon Presidential Materials…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Government Role, Historical Interpretation, Legislators
Peer reviewedPatterson, Amy; Schamel, Wynell; Potter Lee Ann – Social Education, 2000
Provides background information on the events that led up to President Harry S. Truman firing General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. Includes a copy of the document dismissing MacArthur from his position. Includes teaching activities corresponding to this event in history. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Historical Interpretation, History Instruction
Peer reviewedSchamel, Wynell; And Others – Social Education, 1995
Discusses the significance and circumstances surrounding the Yalta Conference near the end of World War II. Presents diary excerpts written by Anna Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's daughter. Includes four recommended teaching activities and an address list of the presidential libraries. (CFR)
Descriptors: Diaries, Diplomatic History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHaverkamp, Beth; Schamel, Wynell – Social Education, 1994
Presents a secondary school lesson plan on the selection of delegates to the first United Nations Assembly meeting. Discusses the esteem of Eleanor Roosevelt at that time and how President Truman requested that she be one of five U.S. representatives. Includes two primary source letters and instructional procedures. (CFR)
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Studies, Learning Activities, Presidents of the United States
Peer reviewedBredhoff, Stacey; Schamel, Wynell – Social Education, 1998
Profiles a series of teaching activities that uses reproductions of entries from President Harry Truman's diary. The activities include content analysis and related research projects. Includes several reproductions of entries describing Truman's frustration with Congress, and his loneliness as his wife and daughter fulfilled other commitments.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Diaries, Government Publications, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedSchamel, Wynell; Schamel, Charles E. – Social Education, 1999
Describes the history surrounding the 1897 Hawaiian Petition Against Annexation that is stored in the National Archives and Records Administration. Explains that the petition is revered by native Hawaiians because it demonstrates that the Hawaiians opposed annexation by the United States. Provides teaching activities in relation to the petition.…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Educational Strategies, Government Role, Presidents of the United States
Peer reviewedSchamel, Wynell; Potter, Lee Ann; Snodgrass, Katherine – Social Education, 2000
Provides background information on the election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden and how it was disputed over electoral votes. Includes copies of the electoral ballot from Louisiana that was rejected and a letter from William Kellogg, the Republican governor of Louisiana. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elections, History Instruction, Political Candidates
