Teacher Work Products

The lesson plans and unit plans shared here were designed by teachers for specific classrooms and teaching contexts, drawing on their unique students, schools, and communities. While these resources were created with intentionality for particular settings, we offer them as ideas and inspiration for teaching about the 1898 Coup and Massacre. We encourage educators to adapt these materials to meet the needs of their own students and to foster meaningful engagement with this critical moment in history. For additional tools and materials to support your teaching, please explore our Teaching Resources tab.

• 1898 Through Rhetorical Analysis Unit by Isabelle Jewell and Pauline Merritt

• Anatomy of a Coup: 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina by Roberta Golan

• Causality and Contingency: Comparison of late 19th and Early 20th c. Massacres and Civil Rights Ideology by Bonnie Belshe

• Democracy and the Rule of Law by Bob Fenster

• Echoes of 1898: The Legacy of Wilmington’s Coup and Massacre by Alec Shoenberger, Liz Davis, and Katie Hines

• Historical Opinion Paper by Tim Williams

• Language and Political Violence - Wilmington and Danville by Ellie Iddings

• Racial Oppression and Violence - In the Late Modern Period by Molly Wilkinson

• Should Charles B. Aycock High School Be Renamed? by Anne Harkins

• The Price of Silence by Abby Cohen

• The Wilmington Coup: Investigations for APUSH by Scott King-Owen, Ph.D.

• TOK History and Politics - The Wilmington Coup d’État by Jordan Lax

• Unveiling Perspectives: The Wilmington 1898 Coup and Its Legacy on Democracy and Memory by David Beller

• Wilmington 1898 Inquiry Design Model by Nekia Comity

• Wilmington 1898: An Overview by Sheldon Wilson

• Wilmington 1898: At the Edge of American Democracy by Jane Mathieu