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Cambridge IGCSE American History (US) 0409
Resource list for teachers and learners (for examination from 2016)
Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3
The importance of primary sources ........................................................................................... 3
U.S. history: General: school textbooks ................................................................................ 4
U.S. history: General: primary sources ................................................................................. 6
U.S. history: General: visual primary sources ..................................................................... 11
U.S. history: General: website resources ............................................................................ 12
U.S. history: General – Native American history: primary sources ..................................... 13
U.S. history: General – Native American history: website resources ................................. 14
U.S. history: General – Asian American history: primary sources ...................................... 14
U.S. history: General – Women’s history: primary sources ................................................ 14
U.S. history: General – Women’s history: website resources ............................................. 15
U.S. history: Economic history: primary sources ................................................................ 15
U.S. history: Foreign affairs: primary sources ..................................................................... 16
U.S. history: Specific periods ................................................................................................... 16
1. Nineteenth century: website resources ........................................................................... 16
2. First half of the twentieth century: school textbooks ....................................................... 16
3. Twentieth century: primary sources ................................................................................ 17
Twentieth century: website resources ................................................................................. 17
4. First half of the twentieth century: primary sources ........................................................ 18
First half of the twentieth century: website resources ......................................................... 18
5. Second half of the twentieth century: primary sources ................................................... 18
Second half of the twentieth century: website resources .................................................... 19
U.S history: Individual topics ................................................................................................... 20
1. The American Revolution: primary sources .................................................................... 20
The American Revolution: website resources ..................................................................... 21
2. The Early Republic: primary sources ............................................................................. 23
The Early Republic: website resources ............................................................................... 23
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3. The war of 1812: website resources ............................................................................... 24
4. Slavery: primary sources ................................................................................................. 24
Slavery: DVDs ..................................................................................................................... 25
Slavery: website resources ................................................................................................. 25
6. The Civil War: primary sources ....................................................................................... 27
The Civil War: website resources ........................................................................................ 27
7. Reconstruction: primary sources..................................................................................... 29
Reconstruction: website resources ..................................................................................... 29
8. Territorial expansion and the West: school textbooks .................................................... 29
Territorial expansion and the West: primary sources .......................................................... 30
Territorial expansion and the West: website resources ...................................................... 30
9. Civil rights: primary sources ............................................................................................ 31
Civil rights: website resources ............................................................................................. 33
Civil rights: DVDs ................................................................................................................ 34
10. Immigration: website resources .................................................................................... 34
11. Nineteenth century economic development: website resources ................................... 35
12. 1920s: website resources ............................................................................................. 35
13. President F D Roosevelt and his era: primary sources................................................. 35
President F D Roosevelt and his era: website resources ................................................... 36
14. Post-war economic development: website resources ................................................... 36
15. The McCarthy era: primary sources .............................................................................. 37
16. The Cold War: primary sources .................................................................................... 37
The Cold War: website resources ....................................................................................... 37
17. The 1960s: primary sources .......................................................................................... 38
The 1960s: website resources ............................................................................................ 39
18. President Kennedy: website resources ......................................................................... 39
19. Vietnam: primary sources ............................................................................................. 40
Vietnam: website resources ................................................................................................ 40
20. Watergate: website resources ....................................................................................... 40
21. President Reagan: website resources .......................................................................... 41
Using primary sources in the classroom: textbooks ................................................................ 42
Using primary sources in the classroom: online guidance for teachers .................................. 42
Effective History teaching at IGCSE level: online guidance for teachers ................................ 42
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Introduction
There is no shortage of material available to teachers and learners for a course in the history of
the U.S.A. The lists here identify three types of resources that can be harder to find:
• IGCSE textbooks using activities and resources
• printed and online collections of primary sources (texts)
• website resources (URLs) for a variety of primary sources (visual)
All of the books are paperbacks, currently in print, and available from online sources such as
www.amazon.com No books or websites are endorsed by Cambridge International
Examinations.
This list illustrates the wealth of material that can be found, especially online. It is not definitive
and must always be a work in progress. For future editions, Cambridge International
Examinations would welcome information about good additional items – an online discussion
forum is available at http://teachers.cie.org.uk/login.
The importance of primary sources
Teachers are reminded of the importance of primary sources in this Cambridge IGCSE
American History course. Beyond ordinary use in class to illustrate subjects and help
discussions, the chosen topic for Component 2 (Defining Moments) needs to be taught using
relevant primary source material as much as possible. Learners need to feel at home with
historical evidence, to be familiar with modes of speech/writing of the time, to be able to
understand it in context and to absorb from it the ideas and attitudes as well as the issues of
the time.
Alongside this, learners need to be taught skills in source analysis:
• appreciating the nature, origin and purpose of the different types of historical
evidence (textual, visual) available for the set topic, and
• assessing the strengths and weaknesses, the importance and the value of the
different types of historical evidence (textual, visual) available for the set topic.
Each learner must be able to do more than go through sources for information, or use them
merely for reference. Learners must be able to interpret what the sources say (and do not
say), to interrogate them and to analyse and evaluate them, if they are to be able to construct
good historical accounts.
In this way, learners will be so familiar with the various types of evidence available for their
Component 2 topic that they can cope comfortably with the unseen sources (textual, visual) in
the examination paper Insert. Teachers will thus need to select an appropriate range of
primary evidence through which to teach their chosen Component 2 topic.
The use of primary sources goes beyond the requirements of Component 2. As History in the
raw, teachers are encouraged to use primary sources in teaching the entire course.
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U.S. history: General: school textbooks
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Modern America: The USA 1865 to the Present
de Pennington J
2005
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
America: Pathways to the Present
Cayton A, Perry E, Reed L and Winkler A
2005
9780719577444
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc. (SHP Advanced History Core Texts
series)
Brief description Excellent one volume textbook covering domestic and foreign affairs with
timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary sources.
Additional
Aimed for 17 and 18-year olds but its approach is appropriate for
notes
Cambridge IGCSE American History learners.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Additional
notes
Audience
Title
9780131815476
Pearson Prentice Hall
A comprehensive one volume textbook covering domestic and foreign
affairs with timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary
sources.
Used in American High Schools and appropriate for Cambridge IGCSE
American History learners.
Teachers and learners
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society Volume One: To
1877
Nash G et al
2010
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
9780205805396
Publisher
Pearson Longman
Brief description A comprehensive and engaging textbook covering domestic and foreign
affairs with timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary
sources.
Additional
Aimed at 17 and 18-year olds but its approach is appropriate for
notes
Cambridge IGCSE American History learners. There is also a study guide
to accompany this text.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society Volume Two:
Since 1865
Nash G et al
2010
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
9780205805389
Publisher
Pearson Longman
Brief description A comprehensive and engaging textbook covering domestic and foreign
affairs with timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary
sources.
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year
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Brief description
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Author
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year
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Publisher
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Aimed at 17 and 18-year olds but its approach is appropriate for
Cambridge IGCSE American History learners. There is also a study guide
to accompany this textbook.
Teachers and learners
American History: A Survey Volume I: To 1877
Brinkley A
2011
9780077379506
th
McGraw Hill 14 edition
A comprehensive and well set-out textbook covering domestic and foreign
affairs with timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary
sources.
Used in American High Schools and appropriate for Cambridge IGCSE
American History learners.
Teachers and learners
American History: A Survey Volume I: Since 1865
Brinkley A
2011
9780077379490
th
McGraw Hill 14 edition
A comprehensive and well set-out textbook covering domestic and foreign
affairs with timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary
sources.
Used in American High Schools and appropriate for Cambridge IGCSE
American History learners.
Teachers and learners
United States 1776–1992
Murphy D, Cooper K and Waldron M
2001
9780007116218
HarperCollins Education (Flagship History series)
Useful one volume textbook covering domestic and foreign affairs with
timelines, diagrams, cartoons, maps, and a few primary sources.
Aimed for 17 and 18-year olds but its coverage is thorough.
Teachers and learners
Title
From Revolution to Reconstruction. A Hypertext on American History
from the Colonial Period until Modern Times
URL
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/index.htm
Brief description Created by the Department of Humanities Computing, University of
Groningen, The Netherlands.
Additional
The outline text is "enriched with hypertext links to relevant documents,
notes
original essays, and other Internet sites".
Audience
Teachers and learners
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Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
An Introduction to American History 1860–1990
Farmer A and Sanders V
2002
9780340803264
Hodder & Stoughton (Access to History series)
Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for discussion and practice.
Teachers and learners
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The USA 1917–1980
Smith N
2000
9780199172498
Oxford University Press (Oxford History for GCSE)
Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for discussion and practice.
Teachers and learners
U.S. history: General: primary sources
Title
The National Archives, Washington DC (homepage)
URL
www.archives.gov/
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Additional
Includes a section of Teachers' Resources.
notes
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Primary Sources
Collection (homepage)
URL
www.gilderlehrman.org/collections
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History,
Volume I: 1492–1877
Author
Binder F and Reimers D (editors)
Publication year 2012
ISBN
9780840029508
th
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin 7 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History,
Volume II: 1865–present
Author
Binder F and Reimers D (editors)
Publication year 2012
ISBN
9780840029515
th
Publisher
Wadsworth 7 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
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Major Problems in American History, Volume II: Since 1865: Documents
and Essays
Author
Cobbs-Hoffman E, Blum E and Gjerde J
Publication year 2011
ISBN
9781111343163
rd
Publisher
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 3 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
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Title
Author
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year
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Publisher
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Title
Author
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year
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Publisher
Brief description
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Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History
Calloway C
2007
9780312653620
th
Bedford St Martin’s 4 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Major Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays
Daniels R, Kurashige L and Murray A (editors)
2003
9780618077342
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents
Davis T
2006
9780313311154
Greenwood Press (Major Issues in American History)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Audience
Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents
DuBois E and Dumenil L (editors)
2008
9780312468873
nd
Bedford St Martin’s 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication
Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History
Fox V and Langley W (editors)
1994
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Publisher
9780313287558
Greenwood Press (Primary Documents in American History and
Contemporary Issues)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional
notes
Audience
American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Vol. 1
Frederick P and Jeffrey J
2007
9780205559923
nd
Longman 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Includes facsimiles of the documents investigated.
Teachers
Title
American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Vol. 2: Since
1865
Author
Frederick P and Jeffrey J
Publication year 2007
ISBN
9780205559930
nd
Publisher
Longman 2 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Additional
Includes facsimiles of the documents investigated.
notes
Audience
Teachers
Title
The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of
American History 1775–1865
Grafton J (editor)
2000
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
9780486411249
Publisher
Dover Thrift
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and
Essays
Hall K and Heubner T (editors)
2009
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
9780618543335
nd
Publisher
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 2 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
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Title
Author
Publication year
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Publisher
Brief description
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Audience
Documents for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877
Henretta J and Yazawa M
2011
9780312648626
th
Bedford St Martin’s 7 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Documents for America's History, Volume 2: Since 1865
Henretta J and Fernlund K (editors)
2011
9780312648633
th
Bedford St Martin’s 7 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Great American Documents. The Landmark Documents
Horton R (editor)
2010
9781847240057
Quercus
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Many of the documents are illustrated.
Teachers
Title
Great American Documents: Volume 1, The (The Great American
Documents)
Author
Motter R
Publication year 2014
ISBN
9780374534530
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 1: From Slavery to
Freedom, 1619–1877: Documents and Essays
Author
Holt T, Brown E and Paterson T (editors)
Publication year 1999
ISBN
9780669249910
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 2: From Freedom to
“Freedom Now”, 1865–1990s: Documents and Essays
Holt T, Brown E and Paterson T (editors)
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Title
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2000
9780669462937
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Major Problems in American Indian History: Documents and Essays
Hurtado A, Iverson P and Paterson T (editors)
2000
9780618068548
nd
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Title
Reading the American Past, Volume I: To 1877: Selected Historical
Documents
Author
Johnson M (editor)
Publication year 2008
ISBN
9780312459673
th
Publisher
Bedford St Martin’s 4 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Reading the American Past, Volume II: From 1865: Selected Historical
Documents
Author
Johnson M (editor)
Publication year 2008
ISBN
9780312459680
th
Publisher
Bedford St Martin’s 4 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
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Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
By America: The Documents that Shaped America
U.S. Government
2008
9781453690758
CreateSpace
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents
Miller R, Zeeman T, Sicius F and Girard J (editors)
2011
9781610690324
Greenwood Press
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
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Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems In American Women's History: Documents and Essays
Norton M, Alexander M and Paterson T (editors)
2006
9780618719181
th
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History Series, 4 edition)
Wide range of primary sources with critical survey.
Teachers
Title
Keys to American History: Understanding Our Most Important Historic
Documents
Author
Panchyk R (editor)
Publication year 2009
ISBN
9781556528040
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Patriot's History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American
Schweikart L, Allen M and Dougherty D (editors)
2011
9781595230782
Sentinel Trade
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
U.S. history: General: visual primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Insights into American History: Photographs as Documents
Levine R
2003
9780130480446
Prentice Hall
Valuable and wide-ranging collection of photographs for teaching large
parts of the syllabus.
Teachers
Title
Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to
Walker Evans
Author
Trachtenberg A
Publication year 1990
ISBN
9780374522490
Publisher
Hill & Wang
Brief description Valuable and wide-ranging collection of photographs for teaching large
parts of the syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States
Virga V and Brinkley A
2004
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9781593730352
Publisher
Bunker Hill Publishing
Brief description Valuable and wide-ranging collection of visual images for teaching large
parts of the syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
U.S. history: General: website resources
Title
URL
Brief
description
Audience
The Papers of the Presidents
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/presiden.asp
From the Avalon Project, Yale Law School.
Covers Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Andrew Jackson,
Eisenhower, Clinton.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the Library of Congress, Washington DC
www.loc.gov/index.html
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the National Museum of American History, Washington DC
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the Smithsonian, Washington DC
http://si.edu/
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
www.npg.si.edu/
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
http://americanart.si.edu/
Teachers and learners
Title
Home page of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History collection
of podcast talks
URL
www.gilderlehrman.org/multimedia#15744
Brief description Wide range of valuable talks useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Audience
Homepage of the New York Historical Society
www.nyhistory.org/
Teachers and learners
Title
Hidden messages. The evolving art and design of the US flag
URL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15634606
Brief description Brief survey from BBC News November 2011.
Look also at
http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/default.aspx
“The Star-Spangled Banner. The flag that inspired the National Anthem” –
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micro site created by The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.
Teachers and learners
U.S. history: General – Native American history: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History
Calloway C
2007
9780312653620
th
Bedford St Martin’s 4 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents
Davis T
2006
9780313311154
Greenwood Press (Major Issues in American History)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Audience
Major Problems in American Indian History: Documents and Essays
Hurtado A, Iverson P and Paterson T (editors)
2000
9780618068548
nd
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Great Documents In American Indian History
Moquin W and van Doren C (editors)
1995
9780306806599
De Capo Press
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents
Perdue T and Green M (editors)
2004
9780312415990
Bedford St Martin’s (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Useful collection of primary sources.
Teachers
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U.S. history: General – Native American history: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Native Americans
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook12.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘American
Independence’, from Fordham University History Department.
Covers temperance and prohibition, Coolidge’s Inaugural 1925, flappers.
Teachers
National Museum of the American Indian
http://nmai.si.edu/home/
Homepage of the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington
DC
Teachers and learners
U.S. history: General – Asian American history: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays
Daniels R, Kurashige L and Murray A (editors)
2003
9780618077342
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents
Davis T
2006
9780313311154
Greenwood Press
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
U.S. history: General – Women’s history: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication
year
Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents
DuBois E and Dumenil L (editors)
2008
9780312468873
nd
Bedford St Martin’s 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History
Fox V and Langley W (editors)
1994
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ISBN
Publisher
9780313287558
Greenwood Press (Primary Documents in American History and
Contemporary Issues)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems In American Women's History: Documents and Essays
Norton M, Alexander M and Paterson T (editors)
2006
9780618719181
th
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History Series, 4 edition)
Wide range of primary sources with critical survey.
Teachers
Title
The American Women's Movement, 1945–2000: A Brief History with
Documents
Author
Maclean M
Publication year 2008
ISBN
9780312448011
Publisher
Bedford St Martin’s (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources.
Audience
Teachers
U.S. history: General – Women’s history: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Feminism
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook56.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘Modern Social
Movements’, from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
U.S. history: Economic history: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings
Malsberger J and Marshall J (editors)
2008
9780415962674
Routledge
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
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U.S. history: Foreign affairs: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: Documents and Essays
Merrill D and Paterson T (editors)
2005
9780618376391
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History, concise edition)
Wide range of primary sources with supporting critical discussion.
Teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
American Imperialism
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook34.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘Imperialism’, from
Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
Audience
U.S. history: Specific periods
1. Nineteenth century: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Maturation of US Culture
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook29.asp
Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Teachers
2. First half of the twentieth century: school textbooks
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
A New Deal: America 1932–45
Brooman J
1987
9780582223752
th
Longman (20 Century History series)
Focus on exam skills. Well illustrated with some sources.
Teachers and learners
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The USA 1917–41
Campbell I
1998
9780521568647
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge History Programme)
Focus on exam skills. Uses a wide range of sources and vivid pictorial
evidence.
Teachers and learners
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Raising Grades in GCSE History: USA 1919–1941
Waugh S and Wright J
2007
9781850082286
Folens
Focus on exam skills. Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for
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Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
discussion and practice. Includes notes for teachers, resources and
activity sheets. Accompanying CD allows teachers to customise all the
materials and create new worksheets.
Teachers
GCSE History: The USA 1919–1941
Wilkes A
2006
9781843038306
Folens
Focus on exam skills. Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for
discussion and practice. Accompanying CD has model questions and
interactive whiteboard activities.
Teachers and learners
3. Twentieth century: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Reading the Twentieth Century: Documents in American History
Whisenhunt D
2009
9780742564770
Rowman & Littlefield
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Twentieth century: website resources
Title
Internal Change in America
URL
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook48.asp
Brief description Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Audience
Teachers
Title
America as a World Leader
URL
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook47.asp
Brief description Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Audience
Teachers
th
Title
How legitimate it is to call the 20 century the American century?
URL
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054594
Brief description “How legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century. Just
how benevolent has America’s impact on the world been? How durable
has American’s initial idealism proved to be? Have ideals of democracy
and freedom been forged across the globe as a result of the American
influence, or has American oppression made the bigger impact? Has
America ignored its own inequalities whilst advocating democratic
capitalism elsewhere? Can America still lay claim to the idealism which
fired its founders, or has materialism, with its uncomfortable corollary
deprivation, lain waste to those early ideals?”
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Discussion in 1998 between Harry Evans, former editor of The Sunday
Times and author of The American Century; John Lloyd, associate editor
of The New Statesman and former Times correspondent in Moscow and
East European Editor of the Financial Time; broadcast in the series ‘In
Our Time’ on BBC Radio 4.
Additional notes Total running time 45 minutes.
Audience
Teachers
4. First half of the twentieth century: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems in American History, 1920–1945: Documents and Essays
Gordon C and Paterson T (editors)
2010
9780547149059
nd
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 2 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
First half of the twentieth century: website resources
Title
URL
Presidential inaugurations 1905, 1913, 1925, 1929
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDEHuPaFzSU&feature=related
President Teddy Roosevelt's Inauguration 1905. Contemporary silent newsreel film
– total running time two minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5NeZEBkCGc&feature=related
President Wilson's Inauguration 1913. Contemporary silent newsreel film – total
running time three minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTpqNZjTQX0
President Coolidge's Inauguration 1925. Contemporary silent newsreel film – total
running time 10 minutes
Audience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WnsH06pGQ&feature=related
President Hoover's Inauguration 1929. Contemporary silent newsreel film – total
running time four minutes
Teachers and learners
5. Second half of the twentieth century: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems in American History Since 1945: Documents & Essays
Griffith R and Baker P (editors)
2006
9780618550067
rd
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series) 3 edition
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Title
The American Women's Movement, 1945–2000: A Brief History with
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Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Documents
Maclean M
2008
9780312448011
Bedford St Martin’s (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Second half of the twentieth century: website resources
Title
URL
Presidential inaugurations 1905, 1913, 1925, 1929
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXE-u4WanMI
President Truman's Inaugural Address 1949. Contemporary newsreel film
(edited) – total running time 11 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwenOlpbvTA&feature=relmfu
President Eisenhower's Inaugural Address 1953. Contemporary newsreel film
(edited) – total running time 11 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LYrg4cjro&feature=related
nd
President Eisenhower's 2 Inaugural Address 1957. Contemporary newsreel
film (edited) – total running time 10 minutes
President Kennedy's Inaugural address 1961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo [part 1] – total running time 10
minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6U8GActdQ&feature=fvwrel [part 2] – total
running time six minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_24rNoPDU&feature=related
President Johnson's Inaugural Address 1965. Contemporary film – total running
time 12 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaL78W0rUHY
st
President Nixon's 1 Inaugural Address 1969. Contemporary film – total running
time 18 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHMv7grxYE&feature=related
President Carter's Inaugural Address 1977. Contemporary film (edited) – total
running time five minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPt7xGx4Xo&feature=relmfu
st
President Reagan's 1 Inaugural Address 1981. Contemporary film – total
running time 21 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzPbJ_ek5c&feature=related
nd
President Reagan's 2 Inaugural Address 1985. Contemporary film – total
running time 24 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S2ptmXsxzs&feature=related
st
President George H W Bush's 1 Inaugural Address 1989. Contemporary film –
total running time 22 minutes
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President Clinton's 1 Inaugural Address 1993. Contemporary film – total
running time 15 minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2jkFkjSvOQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9iJkOpSYJk
nd
President Clinton's 2 Inaugural Address 1997. Contemporary film in two parts
each lasting 12 minutes
Audience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXzgMdj5urs&feature=relmfu
st
President George W Bush's 1 Inaugural Address 2001. Contemporary film –
total running time 15 minutes
Teachers and learners
U.S history: Individual topics
1. The American Revolution: primary sources
Title
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760–1791:
Documents and Essays
Brown R (editor)
1999
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
9780395903445
nd
Publisher
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series) 2 edition
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The American Revolution: Interpreting Primary Documents
Carey C (editor)
2003
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Humphrey C (editor)
2011
9780313377327
Greenwood Press (Voices of an Era series)
Wide range of primary sources to help learners understand the subject.
Teachers
9780737722611
Greenhaven Press
Wide range of primary sources to help learners understand the subject.
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The American Revolution: website resources
Title
American Independence
URL
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook12.asp
Brief description Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
No Taxation Without Representation. Britain, America and the 1765
Stamp Act
URL
www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentaryarchives/archives-highlights/archives-stamp-act/
Brief description Brief online exhibition with original documents and commentary, from the
archives of the Houses of Parliament, London.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
Sons of Liberty Bowl
URL
www.mfa.org/collections/object/39072
Brief description Bowl made by Paul Revere in 1768 to commemorate members of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives who refused to rescind a letter
sent throughout the colonies protesting the 1767 Townshend Acts.
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
The Bloody Massacre
www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-boston-massacre-167683
Engraving of 1770 by Paul Revere of the 1770 Boston Massacre.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
The Passage of the Delaware
www.mfa.org/collections/object/31231
Oil painting of 1812 by Thomas Sully.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
George Washington
www.mfa.org/collections/object/34341
The original oil painting of 1796 by Gilbert Stuart.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Was the American Revolution inevitable?
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/american_revolution_01
.shtml
Micro site created for the BBC by Dr Francis Cogliano, senior lecturer in
American History at the University of Edinburgh.
There are six sections: Introduction, The Stamp Act, Violent Opposition,
Liberties Endangered, A Lesson Learned, Find Out More.
Teachers and learners
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
The American War of Independence: The Rebels and the Redcoats
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/
rebels_redcoats_01.shtml
Micro site created for the BBC by Professor Richard Holmes, Professor
of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University.
There are seven sections: Introduction, Breaking the Connection, The
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Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Outset of War, The Widening Theatre of War, Formidable Adversaries,
Turning Point, Find Out More.
Teachers and learners
The War for America
www.nam.ac.uk/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/war-america
Online exhibition from The National Army Museum, London
There are six sections: 13 Colonies, Outbreak, War in the North, War in
the South, Loyalists and Patriots, Global Struggle.
Teachers and learners
Audience
The American Revolution
www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/americanrevolution/index.html
Online exhibition from the British Library, London.
Eleven sections: Introduction, Timeline, The North American Colonies
and the British Empire, Costs of Empire: the Stamp Acts Crisis,
Pamphlet War and the Boston Massacre, War of Independence, Peace
of Paris, British Revival, Dawn of the American Republic, Rights and
Liberties: the Legacy of the American Revolution, Further Reading and
Links.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
The Constitution of the United States
http://constitutioncenter.org/
The National Constitution Centre, Philadelphia (homepage).
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Thomas Paine: Citizen of the World
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/paine_01.shtml
Micro site created for the BBC by Professor John Belchem of the
University of Liverpool.
Teachers and learners
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Additional notes
Audience
The American Revolution
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
Homepage to the website created by H-Net Humanities & Social
Sciences Online, Michigan State University.
Teachers
Liberty! The American Revolution
www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html
Homepage of website created by Twin Cities Public Television to support
their series ‘Liberty’.
Includes a Teachers Guides and links to resources.
Teachers
American archives. Documents of the American Revolution 1774–1776
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/amarch/index.html
Homepage of the website created by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and Northern Illinois University Libraries.
Teachers and learners
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Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
The people and ideas that caused the American Revolution
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y28v
Podcast discussion by Carol Berkin, Professor of History at The City
University of New York; Simon Middleton, Lecturer in American History at
the University of East Anglia, and Colin Bonwick, Professor Emeritus in
American History at Keele University.
45 minute podcast of 2004, from ‘In Our Time’ series, BBC Radio 4.
Teachers
2. The Early Republic: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Early American Republic: A History in Documents
Huston R
2010
9780195338249
Oxford University Press USA (Pages from History series)
Wide range of primary sources with critical analysis.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Major Problems in the Early Republic 1787–1848: Documents & Essays
Wilenitz S, Earle J and Paterson T (editors)
2007
9780618522583
nd
Houghton Mifflin ((Major Problems in American History, 2 edition)
Wide range of primary sources with critical analysis.
Teachers
The Early Republic: website resources
Title
Early US History
URL
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook26.asp
Brief description Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Audience
Teachers
Title
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819).State Taxes, National Supremacy
URL
www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/mcculloch_v_maryland
Brief description From “Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court, a site created by Street
Law, Inc. to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities
to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping
learners explore the key issues of each case."
Audience
Teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
George Washington
www.mfa.org/collections/object/34341
The original oil painting of 1796 by Gilbert Stuart.
Teachers and learners
Title
Alexander Hamilton
URL
www.mfa.org/collections/object/31047
Brief description Oil painting of 1806 by John Trumbull.
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Teachers and learners
3. The war of 1812: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
The Star-Spangled Banner. The flag that inspired the National Anthem
http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/default.aspx
Micro site created by The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Engagement Between the "Constitution" and the "Guerrière”
www.mfa.org/collections/object/34269
Oil painting of 1813 by Thomas Birch.
Teachers and learners
4. Slavery: primary sources
Title
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil
War
Author
Berlin I, Fields B and Miller S (editors)
Publication year 1993
ISBN
9781565841208
Publisher
New Press
Brief description Wide range of primary sources.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 1: From Slavery to
Freedom, 1619–1877: Documents and Essays
Author
Holt T, Brown E and Paterson T (editors)
Publication year 1999
ISBN
9780669249910
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The African-American Archive: The History of the Black Experience
Through Documents
Wright K
2001
9781579121570
Black Dog & Leventhal
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
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Slavery: DVDs
Title
Publication year
ASIN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Slavery and the Making of America
2005
B0007IOTJ8
Ambrose
DVD of the PBS Thirteen/WNET New York television series using
dramatic re-enactments, narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Box set of four DVDs with total running time of 240 minutes.
Teachers and learners
Slavery: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
The Conflict over Slavery
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook27.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘US Civil War’, from
Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
The Slave Trade to the United States 1808–1859
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2003/06/22/the-history-we-dont-know
MP3 podcast lecture at Boston University by Professor Hall,
Northeastern University, 2003 (total running time 53 minutes).
“Slavery was legal in many southern states right through the American
Civil War. However, the importing of slaves became illegal in 1808, and
made a crime punishable by death in 1820. But according to
Northeastern University Professor of African American Studies, Robert
Hall, that still did not deter slavers from transporting thousands of blacks
into the U.S. from Africa and Cuba.
Professor Hall speaks on “Illegal Aliens from Africa: The Clandestine
Slave Trade to the United States from 1808 to 1859. During this lecture,
Professor Hall explores different estimates on the demographics of the
imported American slave population between 1808 and 1859.”
Teachers and learners
George Washington & Slavery
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2004/02/01/george-washington-and-slavery
MP3 podcast lecture by lecture at Boston University by Henry Wiencek,
2004 (total running time one hour)..
“George Washington once said that slavery was his “only unavoidable
subject of regret.” Though he bought and sold slaves during his life and
even helped to protect the practice through the U.S. Constitution, many
have said that his attitudes changed while commanding both black and
white soldiers during the American Revolution and that in the end, he
was a man ahead of his time when it came to slavery.
This week’s show featured a lecture by Henry Wiencek, author of An
Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of
America. He discussed President Washington’s transformation from a
slave owner to a man who freed his slaves upon his death. Wiencek’s
lecture is presented by Boston University’s African American studies
program.”
Teachers and learners
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Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Slavery, Due Process, the Missouri
Compromise
www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/dred_scott_v_sandford
From “Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court, a site created by
Street Law, Inc. to provide teachers with a full range of resources and
activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases,
helping learners explore the key issues of each case."
Teachers and learners
Uncle Tom's Cabin
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c1bp
45 minute discussion of 2006 on the anti slavery novel Uncle Tom's
Cabin by Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier, Lecturer in American Studies at the
University of Nottingham, Dr Sarah Meer, Lecturer in English at Selwyn
College, University of Cambridge; Dr Clive Webb, Reader in American
History at the University of Sussex; from ‘In Our Time’, BBC Radio 4.
Teachers and learners
5. Abraham Lincoln: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief
description
Audience
Abraham Lincoln: Great Speeches
Basler R and Grafton J (editors)
1991
9780486268729
Dover Thrift editions
16 orations including ‘House Divided’ speech at the Republican State
Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg
Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby expressing regret over the
wartime deaths of her five sons (1864), and the Second Inaugural
Address (1865).
Teachers
Abraham Lincoln: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Abraham Lincoln
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7894962.stm
Michael Gove, Dr Tristram Hunt and Sarah Churchwell discuss the
Abraham Lincoln biography, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of
Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin’, broadcast in ‘Newsnight
Review’, February 2009 on BBC 2.
Total running time just over six minutes.
Teachers and learners
Additional notes
Audience
Abraham Lincoln
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7894964.stm
Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The
Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, broadcast in ‘Newsnight Review’,
February 2009 on BBC 2.
Total running time nearly two minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Douglass and Lincoln in the Age of Obama, and their critics
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2009/09/27/douglass-and-lincoln-in-the-age-
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Additional notes
Audience
of-obama-and-their-critics
MP3 podcast lecture by lecture at Boston University by John Stauffer,
Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard
University, 2009.
Presented by the African American Studies Center at Boston University.
Total running time 53 minutes.
Teachers and learners
6. The Civil War: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Additional notes
Audience
Abraham Lincoln: Great Speeches
Basler R and Grafton J (editors)
1991
9780486268729
Dover Thrift editions
16 orations including ‘House Divided’ speech at the Republican State
Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg
Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby expressing regret over the
wartime deaths of her five sons (1864), and the Second Inaugural
Address (1865).
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Kreiser L and Browne R (editors)
2011
9780313377402
Greenwood Press (Voices of an Era)
Valuable collection of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief
description
Audience
Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents & Essays
Perman M and Paterson T (editors)
2010
9780618875207
rd
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History Series, 3 edition)
Wide range of primary sources with critical survey.
Teachers
The Civil War: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
The US Civil War
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook27.asp
Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Teachers
The Civil War in Harpers Weekly
www.sonofthesouth.net/
Homepage of an online collection making available the complete coverage
on the Civil War in the illustrated magazine Harpers Weekly.
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Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Especially valuable for contemporary images of the war, many derived
from on-the-spot drawings by war artists and correspondents.
Teachers and learners
The Museum of the Confederacy
www.moc.org
Homepage of a large collection of material linked to the Museum in
Richmond, VA.
Teachers and learners
Audience
The American Civil War Centre
www.tredegar.org/
Homepage of a large collection of material linked to the Centre in
Richmond, VA.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
American Civil War: Revisiting the Mason Dixon line
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13072279
Film report of April 2011, from BBC News.
Total running time three and half minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Curator explains importance of American Civil War's black soldiers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13595739
Hari Jones, Curator of the African American Civil War Museum and
Memorial in Washington DC considers "the story of the black men who
fought and the legacy they have left behind".
Film report from BBC News lasting two minutes 35 seconds.
Teachers and learners
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Audience
(Individual Civil War battles)
www.nps.gov/ancm Antietam
www.nps.gov/frsp Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania
www.nps.gov/gett Gettysburg
www.vmi.edu/newmarket New Market
Homepages of various civil war battlefield national parks or state historical
parks.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Grant's First Attack at Vicksburg 1863
www.mfa.org/collections/object/259084
Watercolour of 1863 by unknown artist.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Attack at Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, July 1863
www.mfa.org/collections/object/258927
Pastel of 1863 by unknown artist.
Teachers and learners
Brief description
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7. Reconstruction: primary sources
Title
Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: documents and
essays
Author
Perman M and Paterson T (editors)
Publication year 2010
ISBN
9780618875207
rd
Publisher
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History Series, 3 edition)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources with critical survey.
Audience
Teachers
Reconstruction: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Reconstruction, and Jim Crow
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook27.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘US Civil War’, from
Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the
First Black Congressmen
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2009/03/08/capitol-men-the-epic-story-ofreconstruction-through-the-lives-of-the-first-black-congressmen
MP3 podcast lecture at Boston University by civil rights historian Philip
Dray, 2009.
Lecture presented by the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
African American Studies Program.
Total running time 53 minutes.
Teachers and learners
8. Territorial expansion and the West: school textbooks
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The American West 1840–95 (GCSE Schools History Project)
Todd A
2009
9780435501433
Heinemann
Focus on exam skills. Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for
discussion and practice. Includes a range of revision activities.
Teachers and learners
The American West 1840–1895: The Struggle for the Plains
Martin D and Watt N
2005
9780719577550
Hodder Education
Focus on exam skills. Well illustrated and plenty of primary sources for
discussion and practice. Includes a range of thinking-skill strategies and
active learning techniques for learners.
Teachers and learners
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Territorial expansion and the West: primary sources
Title
Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with
Documents
Author
Greenberg A (editor)
Publication year 2011
ISBN
9780312600488
Publisher
Bedford/St Martin’s (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching, with supporting critical
discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and
Essays
Author
Milner C, Butler A and Lewis D (editors)
Publication year 1997
ISBN
9780669415803
nd
Publisher
Wadsworth 2 edition (Major Problems in American History)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching, with supporting critical
discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Territorial expansion and the West: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Teaching GCSE History: The American West
www.keystagehistory.co.uk/KS4/teaching-american-west.html
Micro site homepage for teachers with ideas and activities
(NB this is a subscription website).
Teachers
Additional notes
Audience
The West
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548gg
th
Podcast discussion of the myths and reality of the 19 century American
pioneers by Frank McLynn, Visiting Professor in the Department of
Literature, University of Strathclyde; Jenni Calder, author of There Must Be
a Lone Ranger: The myth and reality of the American Wild West;
Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, London.
45-minute podcast of 2002, from ‘In Our Time’ series, BBC Radio 4.
Teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Valley of the Yosemite
www.mfa.org/collections/object/33107
Oil painting of 1864 by Albert Bierstadt.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Indians near Fort Laramie
www.mfa.org/collections/object/33165
Oil painting of ca.1859 by Albert Bierstadt.
Teachers and learners
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9. Civil rights: primary sources
Title
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and
Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
Author
Carson C, Garrow D, Gill G, Harding V and Hine D (editors)
Publication year 1991
ISBN
9780140154030
Publisher
Penguin
Brief description Wide range of primary sources.
Additional
Produced in conjunction with the PBS ‘Eyes on the Prize’ television series.
notes
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional
notes
Audience
The American Civil Rights Movement: Readings and Interpretations
D’Angelo R
2000
9780072399875
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Wide range of primary sources, with supporting critical discussion of the
issues.
Teachers
Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents
Davis T
2006
9780313311154
Greenwood Press (Major Issues in American History)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus.
Teachers
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Durham M and Young A
2007
9780817354817
rd
University of Alabama Press 3 edition
Wide range of primary sources, with supporting text and discussion by a
Life reporter (Durham) and a UN ambassador (Young).
188 examples of the influential work of Moore, an Alabama news
photographer.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History
Green R and Cheatham H
2010
9780719070136
Manchester University Press (Documents in Modern History series)
Wide range of primary sources, with supporting critical discussion of the
issues.
Title
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the
1950s Through the 1980s
Hampton H et al.
Author
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Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional
notes
Audience
1991
9780553352320
Bantam
Wide range of primary sources.
Unusual resource for its focus on oral testimonies.
Teachers
Title
Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 1: From Slavery to
Freedom, 1619–1877: Documents and Essays
Author
Holt T, Brown E and Paterson T (editors)
Publication year 1999
ISBN
9780669249910
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin (Major Problems in American History series)
Brief description Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Audience
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief
description
Audience
Major Problems in African American History, Vol. 2: From Freedom to
“Freedom Now”, 1865–1990s: Documents and Essays
Holt T, Brown E and Paterson T (editors)
2000
9780669462937
Wadsworth (Major Problems in American History series)
Wide range of primary sources useful for teaching large parts of the
syllabus, with supporting critical discussion of the issues.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle
Marable M and Mullings L
2005
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Presidents and Black America. A Documentary History
Jones S and Freedman E (editors)
2011
9781608710089
CQ Press
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication
year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History 1954–68
Kasher S and Evers-Williams M
1996
9780714845173
Phaidon
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
9780789206565
Abbeville Press
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
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Civil rights: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Black Power
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook56.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘Modern Social
Movements’, from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). "Separate but Equal," Equal Protection
www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/plessy_v_ferguson
From “Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court, a site created by Street
Law, Inc. to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities
to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping
learners explore the key issues of each case."
Teachers and learners
Brown v. Board of Education (1954). School Segregation, Equal
Protection
www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/brown_v_board_of_education
From “Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court, a site created by Street
Law, Inc. to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities
to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping
learners explore the key issues of each case."
Teachers and learners
Additional notes
Dark Days, Bright Nights: from Black Power to Barack Obama
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2010/02/14/from-black-power-to-obama
MP3 podcast lecture at Boston University by Peniel Joseph, Professor of
History at Tufts University, 2010.“Professor Joseph speaks about the
forgotten contributions of Black Power leaders Stokely Carmichael and
Malcolm X and their enduring legacy in the presidency of Barack Obama.”
Lecture presented by Boston University’s African American Studies
Program.
Total running time 53 minutes
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Homepage of the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
www.kinginstitute.info/
Contains numerous useful resources and online documents.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Civil Rights in America
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/topics/civil-rights.htm
Online collection of original documents from the 1950s and 1960s, from
the National Archives, London.
Teachers and learners
Audience
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Civil rights: DVDs
Title
Publication
year
ASIN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional
notes
Audience
Eyes on The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1965
2010
B0031WNYHK
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
DVD of the critically acclaimed PBS ‘Eyes on the Prize’ television series
telling the story of the civil rights era from the point of view of ordinary men
and women. Winner of numerous awards.
Box set of three DVDs with total running time of 360 minutes.
Teachers and learners
10. Immigration: website resources
Title
US Immigration
URL
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook28.asp
Brief description Wide-ranging online collection of original documents, from Fordham
University History Department.
Audience
Teachers
Title
The Museum of Chinese in America, New York (homepage)
URL
www.mocanyc.org/
Brief description “Founded in 1980, the Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting
the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese
descent in the United States … Various galleries explore the history of the
Chinese diaspora, the struggle for recognition, and the contribution of this
key immigrant community to building the United States.”
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
China at heart of California's railway past and present
URL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13850575
Brief description Don Davis from the Truckee Donner Railroad Society explains how
Chinese labor in the 1860s built the Summit Tunnel in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, California. “Between 10,000 and 20,000 Chinese workers took
a year to cut the Tunnel, a key section of the first trans-continental
railroad”.
Additional
Three-minute film report of June 2011 from BBC News.
notes
Audience
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square
www.mfa.org/collections/object/33641
Oil painting of c.1912 by William Glackens.
Teachers and learners
Title
The Great Migration: The Untold Story of the Twentieth Century
URL
http://worldofideas.wbur.org/2010/10/10/great-migration
Brief description MP3 podcast lecture at Boston University by Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of
Journalism at Boston University and Pulitzer Prize winner, 2010.
Lecture presented by Boston University’s African American Studies
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Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Program.
Total running time 53 minutes.
Teachers and learners
Why are US presidents so keen to be Irish?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13166265
Short illustrated report of April 2011, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
11. Nineteenth century economic development: website resources
Title
China at the heart of California's railway past and present
URL
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13850575
Brief description Don Davis from the Truckee Donner Railroad Society explains how
Chinese labor in the 1860s built the Summit Tunnel in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, California. “Between 10,000 and 20,000 Chinese workers took
a year to cut the Tunnel, a key section of the first trans-continental
railroad”.
Additional
Three-minute film report of June 2011 from BBC News.
notes
Audience
Teachers and learners
12. 1920s: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
New York Museum showcases America's gangsters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9412388.stm
Four-minute film report of 2/2/2011 from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
13. President F D Roosevelt and his era: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents
McElvaine R
2003
9780195166361
Oxford University Press USA (Pages from History)
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1945: A Brief History with
Documents
Polenberg R
2000
9780312133108
Bedford St Martin’s (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Useful collection of primary sources.
Teachers
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
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Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
The Depression in the US
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook41.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘The Depression’,
from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
President F D Roosevelt's 1 Inaugural Address 1933
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpEdYp1Nn-k&feature=related
Contemporary newsreel film (excerpts).
Total running time eight minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
President F D Roosevelt's 2 Inaugural Address 1937
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLNqy-x4U4
Contemporary audio recording (excerpts).
Total running time five minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
A date which will live in infamy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoUtoQLGQY&feature=related
Contemporary newsreel film (excerpts) of President Roosevelt's speech to
Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor 1941.
Total running time three minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Sharecropper and Blackberry Pickers
www.mfa.org/node/4626
Oil painting of 1941 by Robert Gwathmey
Teachers and learners
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nd
14. Post-war economic development: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
From herds to highways: the story of the US interstate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15145271
“It was June 29, 1956 when US President Dwight Eisenhower, recovering
from surgery in a hospital room, signed into law the Federal-Aid Highway
Act of 1956. The legislation aimed to pump billions into the nation's
interstate system over the next 13 years – a landmark event. But the story
of America's superhighways begins long before 1956, back to when
horse-drawn buggies ruled the streets. Earl Swift, author of Big Roads:
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who
Created the American Superhighways takes us through the story.”
Four-minute film report of 2011 from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
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15. The McCarthy era: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents
Schrecker E
2001
9780312393199
nd
Bedford St Martin’s 2 edition
Useful collection of primary sources.
Teachers
16. The Cold War: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Cold War: A History in Documents
Winkler A
2011
9780199765980
nd
Oxford University Press USA (Pages from History, 2 edition)
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
The Cold War: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
A Bipolar World
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook46.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘America as a World
Leader’, from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
The Cold War
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook47.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘America as a World
Leader’, from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
Audience
President Truman & the Origins of the Cold War
www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/truman_01.shtml
Micro site created for the BBC by Arnold A Offner, Cornelia F Hugel
Professor of History, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Korea 1950–53. The Cold War’s Hot War
www.nam.ac.uk/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/korea-1950-53
Online exhibition from The National Army Museum, London.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Bay of Pigs: the “perfect failure” of Cuba invasion
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13066561
Illustrated news report of April 2011, from BBC News.
Includes a three-minute 20 second film clip.
Teachers and learners
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Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
We choose to go to the Moon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ&feature=related
Contemporary film of President Kennedy's speech 1962 (excerpt).
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
What if the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the Moon?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13041326
Illustrated news report of April 2011, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc&feature=related
Contemporary film (excerpt) of President Kennedy's speech in Berlin
1963.
Total running time five minutes.
Teachers and learners
Additional notes
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtYdjbpBk6A&feature=related
Contemporary film (excerpt) of President Reagan's speech at the
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 1987.
Total running time two minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
How did we forget about mutually assured destruction?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17026538
Illustrated news report of February 2012, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
17. The 1960s: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
The Portable Sixties Reader
Charters A (editor)
2002
9780142001943
Penguin Classics
Wide range of primary sources covering Europe as well as the U.S.A.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
America in the Sixties – Right, Left and Center: A Documentary History
Levy P B (editor)
1998
9780275955168
Praeger Paperback
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with
Documents
Schulman B
2006
9781403971531
Author
Publication year
ISBN
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Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Palgrave Macmillan 2 edition (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
The 1960s: A Documentary Reader
Ward B (editor)
2009
9781405163309
Wiley-Blackwell (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American
History)
Wide range of primary sources.
Teachers
Brief description
Audience
The 1960s: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Pop Culture
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook60.asp
Online collection of original documents, from Fordham University History
Department.
Teachers
18. President Kennedy: website resources
Title
URL
Audience
President Kennedy's Inaugural address, 1961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo [part 1] – total running time 10
minutes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6U8GActdQ&feature=fvwrel [part 2] – total
running time six minutes
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Bay of Pigs: the ‘perfect failure’ of Cuba invasion
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13066561
Illustrated news report of April 2011, from BBC News.
Includes a 3 minute 20 second film clip.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
We choose to go to the Moon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ&feature=related
Contemporary film of President Kennedy's speech, 1962 (edited)
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6nQhss4Yc&feature=related
Brief description
Contemporary film of President Kennedy's speech in Berlin, 1963 – total
running time five minutes.
Teachers and learners
Audience
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19. Vietnam: primary sources
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Brief description
Audience
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
Appy C
2004
9780142004494
Penguin
Wide range of eyewitness testimonies, American and Vietnamese, to help
learners understand the subject, for classroom discussion and exam
practice.
Unusual resource for its focus on both sides of the conflict.
Teachers
A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and
Vietnamese Perspectives
Hunt M (editor)
2010
9780807859919
The University of North Carolina Press
Wide range of eyewitness testimonies, American and Vietnamese, to help
learners understand the subject, for classroom discussion and exam
practice.
Unusual resource for its focus on both sides of the conflict.
Teachers
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and
Essays
McMahon R (editor)
1990
9780669180138
D C Heath (Major Problems in American History series)
Wide range of primary sources with critical survey.
Teachers
Vietnam: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Vietnam
www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook47.asp
Online collection of original documents in the section ‘America as a World
Leader’, from Fordham University History Department.
Teachers
20. Watergate: website resources
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Watergate. The scandal that toppled a President
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4597669.stm
Brief survey with links to other web pages, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Revisiting Watergate: The Watergate Story
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm
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Brief description
Audience
Micro site of October 2005, from The Washington Post
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
United States v. Nixon (1974). Watergate, Checks and Balances.
www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/united_states_v_nixon
From “Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court, a website created by
Street Law, Inc. to provide teachers with a full range of resources and
activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases,
helping learners explore the key issues of each case."
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
President Nixon's resignation speech, 1974.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhI1xRUx8UI&feature=related
Contemporary film – total running time eight minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
President Ford's Inaugural Address, 1974
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phrIdrQScr0&feature=related
Contemporary film – total running time 10 minutes.
Teachers and learners
21. President Reagan: website resources
st
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
President Reagan's 1 Inaugural Address, 1981
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPt7xGx4Xo&feature=relmfu
Contemporary film – total running time 21 minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
President Reagan's 2 Inaugural Address, 1985
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzPbJ_ek5c&feature=related
Contemporary film – total running time 24 minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtYdjbpBk6A&feature=related
Contemporary film (excerpt) of President Reagan's speech at the
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 1987.
Total running time two minutes.
Teachers and learners
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Reagan and the ‘Iran-Contra’ affair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/269619.stm
Short illustrated report of 2004, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
Title
Reagan: Simplicity was his strength
URL
Brief description
Audience
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3780339.stm
Short illustrated report of 2004, from BBC News.
Teachers and learners
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Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Reagan: too left wing for today’s Republicans
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/02/reagan-too-left-wing-for-todaysrepublicans/
News report of June 2011 from The Independent.
Teachers and learners
Using primary sources in the classroom: textbooks
Title
Author
Publication year
ISBN
Publisher
Audience
U.S. History: A Document-Based Skillbook
Vaillancourt B
2005
9781413807226
Peoples Publishing Group
Teachers and learners
Using primary sources in the classroom: online guidance for teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Getting Started with primary sources
www.archives.gov/education/research/
Valuable guidance from the U.S. National Archives and Records
Administration
Teachers
Title
URL
Brief description
Audience
Using primary sources
www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/
Valuable guidance from the Library of Congress, Washington.
Teachers
Effective History teaching at IGCSE level: online guidance for teachers
Title
URL
(History in the classroom)
Developing Enquiry Skills:
www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/EnquirySkill/Index.html
Chronological Understanding:
www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/IssueChronology.html
Active Learning:
www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/IssueActiveLearning.html
Brief description
Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Reflections on Active Learning:
www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/IssueReflections.html
Valuable guidance from Ian Dawson, a highly respected teacher trainer.
Teachers
(History in the classroom)
www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
Homepage of a very highly regarded website for teachers.
Although designed for History teachers in the UK and their curriculum, all
sorts of ideas can be picked up by browsing this exceptional support
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Audience
Title
URL
Brief description
Additional notes
Audience
website for History teachers.
Teachers
(History in the classroom)
www.history.org.uk/resources/secondary_resources_12.html
Homepage of a very highly regarded website for teachers.
Although designed for History teachers in the UK and their curriculum, all
sorts of ideas can be picked up by browsing this exceptional support
website for History teachers.
Teachers
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