Class Study Guides

These class study guides were designed to help college instructors integrate materials from the Government’s 50 Greatest Achievements of the Past Half Century project into introductory and upper division American history and government courses. The guides offer lecture topics, themes for discussion, research paper topics, a sample lecture, and the outline for a module.

The guide for history classes was written by Dr. Robert S. Weisbrot, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Colby College and author of Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement (1991) and John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis (forthcoming). The guide for political science classes was written by Dr. Janet M. Martin, professor of government at Bowdoin College and author of Lessons from the Hill: The Legislative Journey of an Education Program (1994) and The American Presidency and Women: Promise, Performance and Illusion (forthcoming).