Lesson 14 of 84 · Biographies
⭐ 30 XPThurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice
People have always told stories.
🎯 Your mission
Connect the dots between past and present.
⚡ The twist
There's always more than one side to the story.
Mind = Blown
🤯 The world is wilder and weirder than the textbook makes it look.
Then & Now
🕰️ History isn't really 'history' — it shapes today, every day.
People have always told stories. Long ago, stories were told out loud before people learned to write them down.
Key Facts
Oral history is stories told aloud.
History is the story of the past.
A timeline shows events in order.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2Who was the first President?
Why this still matters
This shapes your daily life in ways you stopped noticing.
Stretch Challenge
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Connect what you learned to one real thing in your world this week.
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