Grades 4-8. This unit guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching about primary sources, and how to evaluate and cite sources, do document analysis, and formulate and find answers to a research question.
Archival Education
How To Do Research
Explore Further
Education & Knowledge
Science & Innovation
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Birth of Molecular Biology
A new program in the natural sciences increased funding and attention to the life sciences, and coined a new term along the way.
Global Engagement
Issues in Philanthropy
Evolution of a Foundation: an Institutional History of the Rockefeller Foundation
One of the first large-scale philanthropic foundations in the United States was created out of industrial wealth and came to reach around the globe.
Education & Knowledge
Global Engagement
Social Sciences
Building Global Understanding: Area Studies, Language, and History
Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.