Between the Wars: 1919-1939

The 2009 Summer Teachers Conference focused on history and Truman's life between 1919 and 1939. Lesson plans created by teachers attending the conference and powerpoint presentations delivered by speakers are linked below.

Teacher Lesson Plans

Ann Elyse Barkley - The Red Scare through Political Cartoons & Satire (HTML) (PDF); The Red Scare - A Portrait in Political Cartoons (Flash)

Elizabeth Briscoe Wilson - Jazz, An American Original (HTML) (PDF)

Jennifer Brown - Create Your Own DBQ (HTML) (PDF)

Whitney Chism - League of Nations (HTML) (PDF); 1920s Newspaper (HTML) (PDF)

Patricia Dole - The New Deal: Yesterday and Today (HTML) (PDF)

Elizabeth Dunlap - Letters to a President (HTML) (PDF); Prohibition and the Constitution (HTML) (PDF)

Diane Elliot - Machine Politics Between the Wars: Kansas City as a Case Study (HTML) (PDF)

Sheila Engel - Harry Truman - 1920s Road Building (HTML) (PDF); Road Building Worksheet (HTML) (PDF)

Eldon Evans - Road Building in Miami County Kansas 1920-40 (HTML) (PDF)

John Frazier - Ruhr Crisis-1923 and hyperinflation (HTML) (PDF)

Kevin Gorman - Appreciate the Jazz Age (HTML) (PDF); Black leaders of the 1920's and 30's (HTML) (PDF)

Kevin Harmon - Kansas and the Dirty 30's (HTML) (PDF); KC Jazz of the 20's and 30's (HTML) (PDF)

Joe Henke - Historical Photographs of IndependenceHarry S. Truman and the "Road" to the Presidency (HTML) (PDF); Jazzed, Boozed, and Busted: 1920's Mural Project (HTML) (PDF)

Zachary Hutcheson - Truman's Roads Program (HTML) (PDF)

Mike Kaiman - Only Yesterday: Morals, Manners & Mayhem in the 1920's (HTML) (PDF); Gaines v. Canada Mock Trial (HTML) (PDF)

Roger Leaming - League of Nations Fishbowl Debate (HTML) (PDF)

Glenn McFall - Between the Wars: Opposing views over the New Deal expansion of the federal government (HTML) (PDF)

Jon Nuxoll - Between the Wars Lesson Plan (HTML) (PDF)

Kent Padgett - What's in a picture? A governmental system! (HTML) (PDF)

Catrina Pelton - Comparing the Articles of Confederation and the League of Nations (HTML) (PDF); Treaty of Versailles- Impact on foreign relations (HTML) (PDF)

Heidi Waddock Piatchek - Harry S. Truman Week (HTML) (PDF)

Michael Quigley - Mr. Truman as a Senator (HTML) (PDF)

Angela Scheer - The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations (HTML) (PDF); The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations Socratic Questions (HTML) (PDF); Interwar United States vs. Soviet Union (HTML) (PDF)

Susan Smith - 1920s Lesson Plan (HTML) (PDF)

Marla Stewart - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Supreme Court Packing Plan (HTML) (PDF)

LuAnn Stillwell - Finding the Soul of the 1920's (HTML) (PDF)

Pamela Turner - In Between the Wars lesson plan The Great Depression (HTML) (PDF)

Kurtis Werner - Race and Society in Professional Baseball: 1880s-1972 (HTML) (PDF); Emma Goldman: A Fight For Women and Equal Rights (HTML) (PDF)

Rachel Wilbanks - Jazz Leader Collage (HTML) (PDF); How does music impact culture? (HTML) (PDF); Kansas City Jazz Reflection (HTML) (PDF)

Linda Winer - The Great Depression and The Recession (HTML) (PDF)

Douglas Winkler - The Other Side of the 1920s (HTML) (PDF)