History Resources

Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent In the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates

Essay

Christopher L. Miller

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Lincoln’s Interpretation of the Civil War

Essay

Eric Foner

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

10, 11, 12, 13+

Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space

Essay

Richard White

Economics, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Age of Reagan

Essay

Gil Troy

Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals

Essay

James Oliver Horton

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century

Essay

T. J. Stiles

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Cold War, Warm Hearth

Essay

Elaine Tyler May

The Origins of Slavery

Essay

Ira Berlin

Geography, World History

5, 6, 7, 8

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Essay

Eric Foner

Government and Civics, World History

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Female Trouble: Andrew Jackson versus the Ladies of Washington

Essay

Catherine Allgor

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+