U.S. HISTORY AND GLOBAL STUDIES
Classroom topics and resources related to the Tangier American Legation in Morocco
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
The Legation’s history intersects with many key important themes and moments of US history.
Download our teachers’ guide for some useful discussion prompts.
LIONS AT THE LEGATION AND OTHER TALES:
TWO CENTURIES OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC LIFE IN TANGIER
WRITTEN BY GERALD LOFTUS AND ILLUSTRATED BY LAWRENCE MYNOTT
- Legation Lions, or off with my head
- U.S. Marines on Rue d’Amérique
- The Wind, the Lion, and the Lady
- Legation Lions… and horses
- The Legation and the Holocaust
- Mark Twain: The completest exile
- Nylon Sid, the modern American pirate
- Peace Corps disco in the "Cistern Chapel"
- The uses of literacy: women tell stories
- Americans in the Rif: L’Escadrille Chérifienne