RESOURCES

Multimedia History Resources

CD Rom /Textbook called Who Built America? Part II: From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946 from the American Social History Project (in collaboration with the Center for History and New Media). (See review).

Posters available for a variety of topics- some could be of particular use in the new course of study

U.S. History curriculum catalogue from Social Studies School Services

The material at The Choices Program at Brown University includes a series on US history as well as a wide range of materials which can be purchased in hard copy or downloadable formats.

S. G. Grant, History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003) (ISBN 0-8058-4503-8)

Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) (ISBN 1-5663-9856-8)

Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Sam Wineburg, eds. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives. (New York: New York University Press, 2000).

Books that include letters and correspondence that can personalise perspectives on studying the 20s and 30s:

Robert S. McElvaine, ed Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man". (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983).

Robert Cohen, ed. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, eds. Slaves of the Depression: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Howard J. Faulkner and Virginia D. Pruitt, eds. Dear Dr. Menninger: Women's Voices from the Thirties. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997).

Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression. (New York: TV Books, 1999).

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