History Resources

Period 8: 1945-1980 (AP US History)

Period 9: 1980-Present (AP US History)

Ronald C. White - "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain"

Government and Civics

H.W. Brands - "Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics"

Government and Civics

Using Works of Art in Teaching American History

Essay

Daniel Walker Howe

Art, World History

What’s That Sound? Teaching the 1960s through Popular Music

Essay

Brian Ward

Art

Stacy Schiff - "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"

Government and Civics

Inside the Vault: “Pathological liar”: Harry Truman and the rise of Joseph McCarthy in 1950

Video

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Theresa Runstedtler - "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA"

Trumbull's Declaration, and Ours

Essay

Richard Brookhiser

Art