Harvard Case-Studies Approach in History Classes
In a former post, we reviewed some of the best free Social Studies resources including NYDOE's mini-units and Standford's teaching lessons. Now, let's highlight a new approach to teaching social studies: the Harvard Case-Study method.
Here is a list of Moss’s cases, which you can use to engage students in conversations about US history and democracy. We hope you find these cases helpful.
James Madison, the ‘Federal Negative,’ and the Making of the U.S. Constitution (1787) and as a supplement: In Detail: Debt and Paper Money in Rhode Island (1786)
Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution (1791)
Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Struggle over Cherokee Removal (1836)
Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York (1838)
Property, Suffrage, and the "Right of Revolution" in Rhode Island, 1842
Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846
The Struggle Over Public Education in Early America (1851)
A Nation Divided: The United States and the Challenge of Secession (1861)
Reconstruction A: The Crisis of 1877
Reconstruction B: Jury Rights in Virginia, 1877-1880
An Australian Ballot for California? (1891)
Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
The Jungle and the Debate over Federal Meat Inspection in 1906
The Battle Over the Initiative and Referendum in Massachusetts (1918)
Regulating Radio in the Age of Broadcasting (1927)
Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights (1965)
Democracy and Women’s Rights in America: The Fight over the ERA (1982)
Manufacturing Constituencies: Race and Redistricting in North Carolina, 1993
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