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=**This page features hidden histories and untold stories from United States history, world history and American government.**=

** Many topics are grouped as part of a series of related pages (with the series heading listed in the color RED). **

 * ====** Dramatic Event Pages **====
 * ** World History **
 * ** Pre1500 History **
 * Peopling of the Americas
 * The First Cities
 * Who Built the Pyramids?
 * The Seven Wonders of the World
 * The Destruction of Pompeii
 * The Great Wall of China
 * Mayan History
 * Aztec History
 * Incan History
 * English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
 * Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
 * Irish Potato Famine
 * The Age of Revolutions
 * ** Pandemics in World History **
 * The Plague of Justinian
 * The Bubonic Plague
 * Jeffrey Amherst and the Smallpox Blankets
 * The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
 * Social and Economic Impacts of AIDS
 * Malaria
 * Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918
 * The Rape of Nanking
 * Reasons for Dropping the Atomic Bomb
 * The Berlin Airlift and the Berlin Wall
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Arab Spring


 * **United States History**
 * ** Native American Histories **
 * Cahokia and Etzanoa
 * Peskeompskut Massacre/Battle of Great Falls
 * Pueblo Revolt of 1680
 * The Seminole Wars
 * The Trail of Tears
 * Boston Massacre
 * Shays' Rebellion
 * ** Interactions and Expansions **
 * Peopling of the Americas
 * Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
 * History of Citizenship in America
 * Immigration Gateways and Ports of Entry
 * European Immigration Before the Civil War
 * Irish Potato Famine and Other Great Famines in History
 * Chinese Immigration to the United States
 * Mexican Immigration to the United States
 * Muslim Immigration to the United States
 * Refugees, Displaced Peoples and Deportations
 * The California and Alaska Gold Rush
 * The Transcontinental Railroad
 * The Gunfight at the O. K. Corral
 * The Dust Bowl
 * ** American Foreign Policy **
 * The Barbary Pirates
 * Annexation of Hawaii
 * Building the Panama Canal
 * The Great White Fleet
 * The Manhattan Project
 * A Vietnam War WikiQuest
 * ** Labor Strikes in American History **
 * Lowell Mill Girls Strikes, 1834 & 1836
 * The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
 * Atlanta Washerwomen Strike, 1881
 * The Pullman Strike, 1894
 * Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909 and Bread and Roses Strike of 1912
 * Delano Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965-1970
 * The Brooklyn Bridge
 * Prohibition Era Songs of Reform
 * The Social Security Act of 1935
 * ** LGBTQ Histories and Change Makers **
 * Lavender Scare
 * The Stonewall Uprising
 * Bayard Rustin
 * Gay Rights Supreme Court Cases
 * **The HIV/AIDS Epidemic**
 * ** Civil Rights History **
 * Negro Baseball Leagues
 * The Latino Civil Rights Movement
 * 2008 Financial Crisis

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 * ===** Historical Biography Pages **===
 * **World History**
 * Cleopatra
 * Cicero, Roman Philosopher and Politican
 * Arabic and Islamic Mathematicians
 * ** Explorers and Traveliers **
 * Zhang Qian and the Beginnings of the Sllk Road
 * Ibn Battuta, 14th Century Muslim Explorer
 * Zheng He and the Chinese Treasure Fleets
 * Columbus, Magellan, Ponce de Leon
 * Marie Antoinette
 * Olympe de Gouges
 * ** Women Scientists and Mathematicians **
 * Mary Anning, Fossil Hunter and Paleontologist
 * Caroline Herschel, Astronomer
 * Rosalind Franklin
 * Ada Lovelace
 * Queen Victoria
 * Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution
 * Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
 * Maria Montessori and How Children Learn
 * Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt of 1916-18
 * Einstein's Theory of Relativity
 * Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill
 * Joseph Stalin
 * ** LGBTQ Change Makers **
 * Alan Turing
 * **United States History**
 * Pocahontas
 * ** Women Workers and Soldiers **
 * Lowell Mill Girls
 * Women in World War I
 * Women in World War II
 * Rosie the Riverter and the American Homefront
 * Fly Girls
 * Top Secret Rosies
 * Code Girls
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/BENJAMIN_BANNEKER_-_ASTRONOMER-CITY_PLANNER_-_NARA_-_535626.jpg width="300" height="287" align="right" caption="Benjamin Banneker - with biographical paragraphs. Issued 1943"]]
 * ** Inventors in U.S. History **
 * Benjamin Banneker
 * Eli Whitney and the Development of the Cotton Gin
 * George Washington Carver
 * African American Inventors
 * Rube Goldberg
 * ** Women, Political Change and Social Reform **
 * Ida Tarbell and the Standard Oil Company
 * Mother Jones
 * Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly)
 * Hetty Green, the Richest Woman in America in the Gilded Age
 * Bessie Coleman
 * Helen Keller
 * Frances Perkins and the Social Security Act
 * Shirley Chisholm
 * Keynes, von MIses, von Hayek and Friedman
 * ** The Roosevelts **
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Eleanor Roosevelt
 * The Tuskegee Airmen
 * @Navajo Code Talkers
 * ** Women Scientists and Mathematicians **
 * Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell
 * Hedy Lamarr
 * Rachel Carson
 * Grace Hopper
 * Women in Space Exploration
 * The Harvard Observatory "Computers"
 * Rocket Girls
 * NASA's African American Women Computers
 * ** Musicians, Writers and Poets **
 * Prohibition Era Songs of Reform
 * Woody Guthrie
 * Marian Anderson
 * Bob Dylan, Musician and Poet
 * Janis Joplin
 * Stevie Nicks
 * ** LGBTQ Change Makers **
 * Bayard Rustin


 * ===** Influential Literature Pages **===
 * ** World History **
 * The Epic of Gilgamesh
 * The Iliad and The Odyssey
 * Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
 * Dante and the Divine Comedy
 * Machiavelli and The Prince
 * Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
 * Don Quixote and Cervantes
 * All Quiet on the Western Front
 * One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
 * Hiroshima by John Hersey
 * A Long Walk to Water
 * ** United States History **
 * Walden and Henry David Thoreau
 * Uncle Tom's Cabin and Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * The Crucible
 * The Grapes of Wrath
 * The Tell-Tale Heart
 * Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
 * The Great Gatsby
 * 1984 and Animal Farm
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963

** Special Topic Pages **

 * **Geography**
 * Five Themes of Geography
 * Seven Wonders of the World
 * Antarctica
 * Climate Change and Global Warming
 * Beginnings of the Solar System
 * Evolution of Humans
 * Small Island Nations and Rising Sea Levels
 * Oil in Central Asia
 * Wildlife Diversity and the Serengeti Wildebeest Migration
 * Svalbard Global Seed Bank and the Doomsday Vault
 * World Hunger and Poverty
 * The Great Barrier Reef
 * The Amazon River
 * Zealandia, a Newly Discovered, Mostly Underwater Continent
 * **Global Food Histories**


 * **Government**
 * American Political System Overivew
 * Communism and Democracy
 * Freedom of the Press
 * Gay Rights Cases
 * China Today
 * Money and Politics
 * Surveillance and the National Security Agency
 * The FBI in American Politics
 * ** American Elections and Voting **
 * The Ways in Which Citizens Vote
 * Voting Rights and Voter Suppression
 * Disputed Elections in American Politics
 * Electoral College and Ideas for Election Reform
 * Presidential Debates
 * Women's Political Participation Around the World
 * **Economics**
 * Labor Unions and Their Roles
 * Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange
 * Salary Caps and Professional Sports Teams
 * The Trump Organization
 * Robotics in the Workplace
 * ** World History **
 * Weakening of the Roman Empire
 * Comparison of Precolumbian Civilizations
 * The World of the Indian Ocean
 * The Great Wall of China


 * **United States History**
 * Youth Activism in History (see also Connecting in Democratic Teaching)

For a perspective on teaching students about the past, read [|The History Teacher] by Billy Collins from the book //Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems// (Random House, 2002).

[|Many Pasts]from the // U. S. Course on the Web // from George Mason University provides primary source materials drawn from the experiences of ordinary Americans from throughout American history.

Grade 5.17 and United States History I.4 for material on African Americans and Women in the American Revolution.

 * USI.4 has an Dramatic Event Page on the Boston Massacre

Grade 5.21 focuses on Shays Rebellion

USI.21 has information on women and minorities who have held public office
USI.26 includes an Event Page on the California and Alaska Gold Rush

====USI.29 has information on slave resistance, from everyday resistance to running away, and information on Celia, a slave who killed her master in self defense ====

====USI.30 for information on Catherine Beecher, who believed women should be in charge of their own lives and affairs and Noah Webster, who created the American Dictionary of English Language, was an adviser to George Washington, helped create the first American census, and more. ====

USII.4 has information on the origins of cowboys, women warriors, and Jim Thorpe
@USII.6 for information on Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders from the Spanish-American War and an all African-American regiment that fought in Cuba
 * Includes an Dramatic Event page on the Annexation of Hawaii

USII.8

 * Includes a Historical Biography Page on Helen Keller and her FBI files
 * Includes a Historical Biography Page on Theodore Roosevelt

USII.9 for information on Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African American to play in the major leagues and Lewis Latimer, the only African American on Thomas Edison's inventing team.

 * ==== This page also contains information on George Washington Carver, the scientist, educator, and humanitarian. ====

====USII.10 for a collection of music from the Prohibition Era, for information on Bessie Coleman, the first African American women to earn a pilot's license, and Carrie Nation, a Temperance woman who was known for attacking liquor stores.====

@USII.12 for information on President Hoover and his request for more Native American funds. Also contains information on the struggle between FDR and the upper class.



====USII.20 has information on the Vietnam War and African Americans, including Project 100,000.====

====USII.20 for information on Operation Babylift, when US forces evacuated thousands of Vietnamese orphans and children and information on Corita Kent, a former nun who used her art to make political statements ====

====USII.25 for information on Claudette Colvin, an African American teenager who refused to give up her seat months before Rosa Parks and for information on Bayard Rustin, an openly gay organizer of the March on Washington====



USII.27 for information on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who lead the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, and Babe Didrikson Zaharis, a famous multisport star
USII.28 has an Event Page on the Stonewall Riots

** World History **
See Grade 7.16 for an Event Page on Who Built the Pyramids

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Marie-Olympe-de-Gouges.jpg width="191" height="234" align="left" caption="Marie Olympe de Gouges"]]
====WHI.9 for information on Eleanor of Aquitaine, who played a major role in the Second Crusade and is the reason why women were banned from future crusades. ====



WHI.23 for information on Wu Zeitan, the only female emperor during the Tang Dynasty.

 * This standard includes a Dramatic Event Page on Zheng He and the Chinese Treasure Fleets

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.12 for information on Lakshimibai, an Indian nationalist symbol. Her husband died and she was going to lose her land, so she formed an army and fought to protect it. Also includes info on missionaries’ wives who educated women. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.16 includes a Dramatic Event Page on the Panama Canal

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Mariya_Dolina.jpg/1280px-Mariya_Dolina.jpg width="297" height="193" align="right" caption="Mariya Dolina, one of the Night Witches"]]
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.23 for information on Minnie Vautrin, who worked at a college for women in Nanking. She stayed behind during the evacuation and kept the school open for refugees and soldiers. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.24 contains information on Night Witches from Russia, women who flew in the Soviet Air Forces and Vasily Zaitsev, a Russian sniper who has a large role at Stalingrad. The picture of Captain Mariya Dolina, one of the Night Witches who was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" for her wartime actions====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.26 contains stories of heroes of the holocaust, such as Abdol-Hossein Sardari, Huberman, the Zegota.
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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WHII.37 has information on Alan Turing, a gay man who made contributions as a code breaker during WWII and the development of computers and additional information on scientists of color and women. ====

See Alan Turing page historical biography page

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> USG5.2 to learn about voting in Early Colonial America
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AP Government and Politics Standard IV.A features information on Vermont's part-time citizen legislature. ====

** Resources for Teaching Hidden Histories and Untold Stories **
[|Teaching a People's History: Zinn Education Project] Click here for the Podcast "Stuff You Missed in History Class" from HowStuffWorks.com

Click here for the book "50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet" by Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe. This book shares stories of many American citizens who have been lost for history and even gives hints for readers to research more hidden histories.