Reagan and the Conservative Movement
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Lesson Plan: Jimmy Carter and the Rise of Evangelical Voters
Students will learn how the cultural and political trends of the 1960s and 1970s led to heightened political engagement among evangelical Christians and the emergence of a powerful new conservative movement.
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Lesson Plan: A Search for Justice
Students will learn how President Reagan’s administration, trying to stop Soviet communist influence around the world, supported authoritarian regimes, and the impact that had in El Salvador and in the U.S. then and now.
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Lesson Plan: Why We Can’t Have a Civil Conversation About Guns
Students will learn about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan and how decades later, lawmakers and the American public continue a debate over gun control.
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Lesson Plan: 1964 Republican Convention – Chaos and Conservatism
Students will learn how Senator Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964 led to a disastrous Republican convention and a Democratic landslide in November, but not without giving birth to the conservative movement that has come to dominate today’s Republican Party.
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Lesson Plan: How the Federal School Lunch Program Became a Spicy Political Debate
Students will learn about the federal school lunch program and analyze how it is impacted by federalism.
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How Trump’s Red Wave Builds on the Past
Southern voters, once loyal to the Democratic Party, elected Republican candidates in 1966 as the two parties began to sort themselves into distinctly partisan camps.
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Lessons From the 1976 Republican Convention: Why Ronald Reagan Lost the Nomination
In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.
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Lessons From the 1964 Republican Convention: Declaring War on the Establishment
Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the first time the Republican Party was split by an outsider declaring war on the establishment elite.
