The Individual in History: Uncivil Disobedience

This resource guide offers lessons, activities, and primary sources examining movements in American history in which individuals challenged established political and social conventions through acts of civil—and uncivil—disobedience.

Case studies focusing on colonial resistance to the British, as personified by Sam Adams; and the temperance movement, led by Carrie Nation

A detailed chronology highlighting important moments in the history of passive and active resistance in the United States, from colonial times to the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s

Essays from scholar offer a foundation of knowledge about the individuals, events, and issues

Nearly 80 primary and secondary sources, including excerpts from books, documents, and letters, political cartoons, newspaper articles, biographies, and overviews of governmental acts and resolutions

Ready-made, reproducible activities including interpreting the perspectives of revolutionaries through primary sources, the creation of pre-Revolutionary protest documents, and a compare/contrast between past and present examples of violence in the name of protest