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Critical Thinking & Historical Analysis

A comprehensive curriculum exploring power, race, gender, economics, and critical thinking through historical analysis.

18 Units
Early Units (Foundation)
Building Skills
Advanced Concepts
Capstone/Synthesis
1

Foundations of Critical Thinking and Historical Analysis

3-4 weeks
2

Power, Hierarchy, and Social Structures

3-4 weeks
3

Economic Systems and the Role of Money

3-4 weeks
4

Assumptions and Evidence: The Key Assumptions Check

3-4 weeks
5

Race, Whiteness, and Constructed Hierarchies

4 weeks
6

Gender, Misogyny, and Patriarchy

3-4 weeks
7

Eugenics and Scientific Justification of Oppression

3-4 weeks
8

Slavery and Its Legacies

4-5 weeks
9

Competing Explanations: ACH and Confidence Calibration

3-4 weeks
10

Civil Rights Movements and Resistance

4-5 weeks
11

Hidden Histories

4-5 weeks
12

Hubris, Moral Failings, and Learning from History

3-4 weeks
13

The Architecture of Belief and Religious Power

3-4 weeks
14

Thinking About Thinking: Metacognition and Intellectual Virtues

3-4 weeks
15

Narrative Fallacy and the Overton Window

3-4 weeks
16

Science, Technology, Innovation, and Trade: The Myth of Neutrality

4-5 weeks
17

Case Study: The Coherence Assessment — ICD 203 Applied to Executive Action

When you apply the intelligence community's own analytic standards to the full pattern of executive actions — from inspector general purges to an unauthorized regional war — what coherence assessment emerges? A meta-analytical framework that teaches students how intelligence analysts evaluate patterns, then asks them to apply those tools domestically.

5-7 days
18

Case Study: The Classroom Still Works (Under What Conditions)

The journalism series diagnoses a broken architecture. This case study asks a different question: when the conditions allow it, what does evidence-based learning actually look like — and why are those conditions so rare?

3-5 days

Learning Progression

This course is designed to be taken sequentially. Earlier units establish foundational concepts that later units build upon. While you can explore units in any order, following the numbered sequence provides the most coherent learning experience.