U.S. Curriculum

Introduction

• History 101: Snoop Doggy Roosevelt
• Election 2004 Project
• Thematic Strands and Concepts
• New York State Learning Standards for United States History
• First Semester Calendar of Lessons
• Dr. Singer’s Social Studies Regents Tips
• Tree of Liberty
• Scoring Rubric for Tree of Liberty Presentation
• Evaluating Internet Resources
• Join the Multicultural Debate
• Who is the author and what “time” is being described in this quote?
• Possible Essential Questions
• When Does American History Begin?
• Social Studies Skills Through U.S. Civil War
• Calendar Of Lessons Civil War Through U.S. Today
• Gabriel Sagard- Theodat’s Journey to the Country of the Hurons
• Teaching Young Children about Native Americans and their Living Tradition

Colonial

• Era of God, Gold and Glory
• How did the arrival of Columbus affect native people?
• How did native Americans and Europeans view each other?
• Mayflower Compact
• Oloudah Equiano Describes Being Kidnapped into Slavery
• The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
• Witch Trials in Colonial New England
• Trial for Witchcraft in New York State
• Peter Stuyvesant and the Jews of New Netherland
• Economic Development of Colonial Virginia
• Demographic Trends in Colonial New England
• Documenting Slavery and Freedom in Colonial New Amsterdam
• Runaway Slave Advertisements from New York
• New York City in 1741
• Colonial New York
• Patrick Henry
• The Battle Of Long Island
• Who is the author and what “time” is being described in this quote?

Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776
• New York City and the American Revolution
• Excerpts from Justice William J. Brennan
• Conflict and Compromise in the Constitution
• James Madison, Federalist No. 10
• Why did Benjamin Franklin support the new Constitution?
• Were the Founding Fathers guilty of treason?

New Nation

• George Washington’s Advice to the Nation
• Journeys on Old Long Island
• Downtown Brooklyn Map
• How did technological developments transform the United States?
• Mark Twain
• How was the Erie Canal built?
• What was New York City like in the Nineteenth Century?
• Decision-Making in a Democratic Classroom
• Walt Whitman’s Poetry Sings About America
• Elizabeth Jennings
• The United States goes to war with Mexico, 1845-1849
• U.S. Westward Expansion
• A Dickensian View of New York City

Slavery

• Understanding Slavery in the Americas
• African Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
• Traditional African American Songs from the Era of Slavery
• Shedding Light On Slavery: North’s little-known role in the nation’s slave trade
• Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith
• The Christianna Outrage
• Chronology of conflict between the North and South
• Documenting New York City’s Complicity with Slavery
• Differentiated Text
• Manufacturing by section, 1860
• The House Top by Herman Melville
• Political Cartoons
• The South After Reconstruction

Immigration

• Waves of Immigration
• No Irish Need Apply
• Paddy Works on the Railway
• Two Poets Describe Immigration to the United States
• A Brief History of Immigration to the United States
• Arriving at Ellis Island
• Irish Immigrants in New Orleans
• Slums and Sweatshops
• Foreign Criminals in New York
• Esteemed Editor
• New York City Population, 1900-1930
• New Immigrants Transform Life in New York City
• Native Americans Reclaim Alcatraz Island
• They Weren’t First, but Their Will to Fly Helped Invent the Airplane

Workers

• The Farmer is the Man
• Populist Challenges to Industrial Change
• Activity-Based Lesson on the Labor Movement
• Why should workers join unions?
• To Rise Together
• Union membership in the United States
• Should I Join the Knights of Labor?
• The Impact of Industrialization on the U.S. Working Class
• Why did New York City garment workers organize a labor union?
• New York City “Newsies” Strike Against the World and Journal, 1899
• How did American Woman win the right to vote?

World Power

• Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Policy
• President Theodore Roosevelt Explains American Foreign Policy
• McKinley Prays for Guidance (1898)
• The Panama Revolution
• Why did the United States enter the Great War (World War I)?
• United States Trade with Nations at War
• They Spoke Against War
• Americans at War
• World War I and the Home Front
• Origins of World War II
• Nazi Ideas
• The Manhattan Project
• U.S. Imperialism Defeats Salvador Allende and Democracy in Chile

Depression

• Understanding the 1920s: Looking at the Economic Numbers
• Philip Randolph Struggles Against Racism
• The Scopes’ Monkey Trial
• Margaret Sanger and a Woman’s Right to Her Body
• American Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the 1920s
• Painting by Jacob Lawrence and Three Poems by Langston Hughes
• Let America Be America Again
• What is the responsibility of government?
• Great Depression and New Deal: What is the responsibility of government?
• Images of the Great Depression
• Images of the Great Depression 2
• Effects of the Great Depression
• Which Side Are You On?
• The Great Depression and New Deal on Long Island, New York
• Dominick Gadamowitz of Flushing Joins the C.C.C.

Civil Rights

• Plessy v. Ferguson and the Debate over “Separate but Equal”
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents
• Did New York City police participate in anti-Black Riots in 1900?
• The Niagara Declaration of Principles (1905)
• Charles Houston, “Educational Inequalities Must Go!”
• Supreme Court Decision, Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education (1954)
• President Eisenhower’s “Address on Little Rock”
• The Rights of African Americans in Post-Civil War America
• What was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream?
• Martin Luther King Day
• Images of the Civil Rights Movement
• Why We Broke The Law
• Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
• A Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Timeline Of The Struggle For Civil Rights
• Civil Rights: Looking at the Numbers
• Songs and the Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama
• The Civil Rights Movement in New York City
• Who was Malcolm X?
• Was the Civil Rights Movement a Success?
• The Levittown Legacy: Segregation in Suburbia?
• Dr. Eugene Reed and the Battle for Civil Rights on Long Island

Post-War World

• Two Versions of the Origins of the Cold War
• The United States in Vietnam
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Discusses Vietnam
• My Cousin Mike
• United States policy in Cuba- a chronology
• The C.I.A.’s Cover Has Been Blown? Just Make Up Something About U.F.O.’s
• We are Truly Sleepwalking Through History
• Is it Acceptable to Question Government Policies in a Time of National Emergency?
• Why Is the United States Active in “Middle Eastern” Affairs?
• United States Oil Imports from Middle Eastern Nations
• A History of Wartime Laws
• Nuclear Deterrence Debate
• Bush and bin Laden debate United States Air Strikes in Afghanistan
• Mock Trial of Harry Truman for Crimes Against Humanity
• Nuclear Blast Mapper at PBS- The American Experience
• Nuclear Controversy- Sourcebook for an Inquiry Curriculum

Economics

• How The Economy Works?
• Corporate Curriculum
• For Richer
• Globalization: The Free Trade Fix
• Out Of A Job And No Longer Looking
• Sluggish U.S. Economy a Global Concern
• A Snapshot of The United States of America
• How Much Is That Worth Today?
• Failing Farmers Learn to Profit From Federal Aid
• Doing the Math on Bush’s Tax Cut
• Economic Data – Whose Boom Is It?
• Can the “free market” solve all economic problems?
• The World’s Economies Slide Together Into Recession
• The Employment Situation: February 2001
• “Infectious Greed” or the Working of Capitalism?
• The Impact of New Inventions
• Has the North American Free Trade Agreement Been a Success?