Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States Online
Howard Zinn - Voices of A People's History
Interesting Historical Resources
Marks Links to Primary Sources - http://fg.ed.pacificu.edu/bailey/resources/papers/DigitalHistory/primary.html
100 Milestone Documents Throughout our History - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
1676 Bacon's Rebellion - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800
1776 Thomas Paine: "Common Sense" - http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/
1823 Monroe Doctrine - http://www.ushistory.org/documents/monroe.htm
1847 Dred Scott Decision - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
1849 Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience" - http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
1852 Fredrick Douglas: "The meaning of the 4th of July for the Negro" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
1861 The Morrill Tariff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Tariff
1870 Voting Rights (15th) Amendment - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=44
1893 Sherman Anti Trust Act - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=51
1914 Joe Hill, labor activist - http://www.joehill.org/index.html
1917 American Protective League - http://hnn.us/articles/960.html
1900s Eugene Debs, Socialist - http://debsfoundation.org/index.html
1914 Ludlow Massacre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
1920 Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchists - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html
1922 The Bonus Army and "battle of Washington" - http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-worldwar/5831
1929 The Great Depression - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm
1938 Langston Hughes; "Let American be America Again - http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
1945 The Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb - http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/educators/study-guides/history_decision-to-drop-bomb.htm
1954 Brown vs. Board of Education - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=87
1955 Civil Rights Movement - http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/
1960 The Culture of the 60s - http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html
1965 Voting Rights Act - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=44
1968 Vietnam War - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm
1971 The Pentagon Papers - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/
1972 Watergate - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/
1973 Webquest on Wounded Knee - http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/middle/michalek/investigating_wounded_knee_in_19.htm
The Rationale for Wars:
1898 USS Maine sunk - http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/our-government-would-never-deceive-us/
1915 Sinking the Lusitania - http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm
1941 Pearl Harbor - Institute for Historical Review, A Debate, Whitewashed, Oregon Connection
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Vietnam War. - http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/01/nsa_releases_history_of_americ.html
1970 Napalm and its effects on Human Beings - http://www.911review.org/Wget/www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/v1201dre.htm
2001 National Security Archives: The Iraq War - http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/index.htm
2001 Justifying Iraq War - New York Times, Future Freedom Foundation
2001 WTC Analysis sites? (unverified) - Truth, Architects and Engineers, Patriots Question, Killtown
List of Wars involving the US- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Background Informational Books:
The American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson - Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Excerpt
Chalmers Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Chalmers Johnson - Nemesis The Last Days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson - Dismanteling the Empire
Noam Chomsky - Imperial Ambitions
James Loewen - Liew My Teacher Told Me
Howard Zinn - A peoples History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Voices of a People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - A People's History of American Empire
Classroom Books:
Phillip Hoose: We were There Too - Teacher's Guide
"Hoose's (It's Our World, Too!) impressive survey places young people at the center of every event that shaped America, from 12-year-old Diego Berm£dez who sailed with Christopher Columbus in 1492 to high school junior Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat in 1955 Montgomery, Ala., nine months before Rosa Parks. The diverse contributions of these gutsy children and teens include 16-year-old Deborah Sampson, who masqueraded as Private Robert Shirtliffe and fought in the Revolutionary War, and 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall who, in the absence of many major league players-turned-soldiers, pitched for the Cincinnati Reds during WWII. Readers will appreciate the brief epilogues that explain what happened to each person in adulthood. For instance, Chuka, a nine-year-old Hopi Indian subjected to assimilation in white schools in 1899, "struggled to live in two worlds" throughout his life, and high school junior Peggy Eaton, who rode the rails in 1938, continued to live a life of adventure as a missionary and mountain climber. Informative sidebars provide additional, and sometimes humorous, historical asides to the biographical profiles (e.g., a story problem in a Confederate math book during the Civil War calculates the death toll of Yankees). Pictures, maps and prints help bring these stories to life, but it is the actions of these young people that will inspire readers to realize that they, too, can play a part in making America's history". Amazon.com
Ellen Levine: Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
"In this inspring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South -- to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom."
Robert Shetterly - Americans Who Tell The Truth
"Americans Who Tell The Truth, the book of the first fifty portraits in this series printed in beautiful color with short biographies and an essay by Robert Shetterly about the intent of the project. The book is suitable for all ages, but its target audience is middle and high school. We have published a free curriculum here on this website for teachers to be able to teach American history through the lives of these people. This book has won the 2006 award of the International Reading Association for intermediate non-fiction.
The Children's Book Council has named Americans Who Tell the Truth a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People."
