Resources for Teaching Economics in
American History
Features
• Essay on the economic way of thinking.
• 39 complete lesson plans
– Economic history explanations
– Detailed teaching procedures
– All visuals and handouts are included
– Linked to national economics and history standards
• Uses an “economic mystery” approach to encourage students
to practice economic thinking skills.
• Includes multiple choice and constructed response
assessments.
• Published by the Council on Economic Education
How to Order Focus
Just click on:
http://www.councilforeconed.
org/
Art History Research
The Van Gogh Family
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Obnoxious brother
Dizzy Aunt
Brother who ate prunes
Brother who worked at
a convenience store
• Grandfather from
Yugoslavia
• Please Gogh
• Verti Gogh
• Gotta Gogh
• Stop N Gogh
• U Gogh
Art History Research
The Van Gogh Family
• Cousin from Illinois
• Magician uncle
• Mexican cousin’s halfbrother
• Constipated uncle
• Ballroom dancing aunt
• Chica Gogh
• Wherediddy Gogh
• Amee Gogh
• Cant Gogh
• Tan Gogh
Art History Research
The Van Gogh Family
• Bird lover uncle
• Nephew psychoanalyst
• Brother who was a
Beatle
• Flamin Gogh
• E Gogh
• Rin Gogh
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The nephew who drove a stage coach ----------- Wells-far
Gogh
The constipated uncle --------------------------------- Can't Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt ---------------------------- Tang Gogh
The bird lover uncle --------------------------------- Flamin Gogh
The fruit-loving cousin --------------------------------- Man Gogh
An aunt who taught positive thinking ------------- Way-to-Gogh
The little bouncy nephew ------------------------------ Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco -----------------------------Go Gogh
AND....
His niece who travels the country in an RV....... :
Winnie Bay Gogh
Economic Episodes in American
History: Wohl Publishing
Features
• 32 chapters focused on an economic episode
• Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the economic way of
thinking
• All other chapters can stand alone
• Complete Teacher’s Guide including answer to the Questions
for Discussion, correlations to national standards, a teaching
activity for each chapter, assessments including constructed
response and multiple choice items for each chapter.
• Available in multiple formats: print, online, customized
Chapter Organization
• Framing the Issue
(with a personal story)
• Key Economic Concepts
(Box)
• The Historical Context
• The Economics of the topic
• Historical Questions and
Economic Answers
• Primary Source
• Then and Now
• Complete Teacher’s Guide
with summaries, standards,
assessments and activities.
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 1 How Can Economics Illuminate History?
• CHAPTER 2 Why Did the British Colonies Succeed
Economically—Without Finding Gold and Silver?
• CHAPTER 3 Why Did John Harrower Sell Himself into
Bondage?
• CHAPTER 4 Why Did the American Colonists Fight When They
Were Safe, Prosperous, and Free?
• CHAPTER 5 How Did the U.S. Constitution Provide a Road
Map to Economic Prosperity?
• CHAPTER 6 Turnpikes, Canals and Railroads: What Did We Do
Before Interstate Highways?
• CHAPTER 7 Was Slavery a Market Institution?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 8 The Civil War and Lee’s Dilemma: Why
Fight a War When the North’s Economy Was So Much
Stronger?
• CHAPTER 9 How Did the Civil War Change the U.S. Economy?
• CHAPTER 10 The Homestead Act of 1862: Was Free Land
Really Free?
• CHAPTER 11 Did the Comanche and Other American Indians
Favor Communal Ownership?
• CHAPTER 12 Why Did Frank H. Mayer and His Fellow Hunters
Kill Buffalo, Almost to Extinction?
• CHAPTER 13 Did Railroads Cause the Economy of the Late
1800s to Grow?
• CHAPTER 14 Hard Currency: Sound Money or Cross of Gold?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 15 Were the Robber Barons Robbers or Barons?
• CHAPTER 16 Why Did the 19th-Century Monopolies
Disappear?
• CHAPTER 17 How Did Financial Panics Lead to the
Establishment of an Independent Central Bank?
• CHAPTER 18 Who Was the Titanic Baby and Where Was He
Going?
• CHAPTER 19 What Made the Roaring Twenties Roar,
Economically: Real Growth or a Stock Market Bubble?
• CHAPTER 20 Why Did a Mild Recession in 1929 Become the
Great Depression of the 1930s?
• CHAPTER 21 Was the New Deal Good for the U.S. Economy?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 22 The Economics of Union Membership: Solidarity
Forever?
• CHAPTER 23 Did Rosie the Riveter Win the Battle for
Working Women?
• CHAPTER 24 Why Did the Economy Grow after World War II?
• CHAPTER 25 Who Desegregated Major League Baseball:
Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson?
• CHAPTER 26 How Did the Marshall Plan Become a Model for
Foreign Aid Programs?
• CHAPTER 27 What Were the Origins of the African American
Middle Class?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 28 Why Did Communism Collapse?
• CHAPTER 29 How Did the Economy Influence Presidential
Elections in the Stagnant Seventies?
• CHAPTER 30 Is the Information Revolution as Big as the
Industrial Revolution?
• CHAPTER 31 Is Free Trade Out of Date?
• CHAPTER 32 Is the Growth of the Federal Government Good
for the Economy?
How to Order EEAH
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