[RSCT] Curriculum Resources for Alternative Views on Columbus Day

[Marion Brady]

> Great resources to Reconsider Columbus Day and Rethink Columbus.
>
> Why rethink Christopher Columbus? Because the Columbus myth is a 
> foundation of children's beliefs about society. Columbus is often a
> child's first lesson about encounters between different cultures and
> races.

   The fact that most historical events are sufficiently complex to allow 
any number of differing perspectives to be defended as "what really 
happened," makes the use of primary sources essential.
   Here's lots of it (all free) pulled together in an instructional program 
for adolescents. Much of it is "left over" material I pulled together but 
didn't use in a middle school level American history book published by 
Prentice-Hall .

    http://www.marionbrady.com/americanhistoryhandbook.asp

Marion