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Service and Sacrifice in Korea: Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun

This lesson is designed to give students a greater understanding of the Korean War through examining the experiences of a military chaplain, Capt. Emil J. Kapaun who was captured and later died from dysentery while being held as a POW.
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Korean War Timeline and Journaling

Using the Truman Library Korean War Document collection, the students will read primary documents, analyze and evaluate them, synthesize a summary and place them on a timeline. The timeline forms the basis for other activities.
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US Involvement in the Korean War

Cooperative learning activity containing small classroom groups and ending with entire class, student-led discussion. Primary sources and maps will form basis for discussion of Korean War.
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Nuremberg Trials

This lesson will fit into my post war unit right before we get into the Cold War. The purpose of teaching about Nuremberg is two fold, first to talk about how the World was changing in relationship to dealing with this type of crime...
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Good Man in Hell: Rwanda and the Western Response

Students will explore the Rwandan Genocide and the Western response to the genocide
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The Holocaust - Yesterday & Today

This lesson helps students reflect on what they can do when they encounter unfair treatment.
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Race and Ethnicity

Students will understand how prejudice is learned and how members of a group internalize dominant group norms. Students will learn obstacles to normalization after genocide and propose possible solutions to neutralize those obstacles.
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Nuremberg Trials

This lesson was designed to provide the students who learn in the visual mode a means to successfully interpret and experience the Nuremberg Trials on a unique nonstandard plane and to express their thoughts through writing.
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UN Declaration Of Human Rights

This lesson was designed to provide the students with the exact articles found in the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the opportunity to analyze each article.
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Atomic Bomb

Point/counterpoint on President Truman
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