Student Resources

Chapter Resources

Articles on Americans and their country

• Leo Marx, “The Idea of Nature in America,” Deadalus, Spring 2008. https://www.amacad.org/publication/idea-nature-america
• Slavery in the American South. Constitutional Rights Foundation. https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south   
• Harry Blain, “Why is the American left so prejudiced about the South?” Open Democracy, 6 February 2018. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/why-is-american-left-so-prejudiced-about-south/  
• Myth of the West: Lonely but Free I’ll be Found, PBS, History Detectives, https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/lessonplan/myth-of-the-west-lonely-but-free-ill-be-found/  
• Catherine Lutz, The American West, Aspen Institute, December 15, 2018. https://www.aspeninstitute.org/longform/ideas-the-magazine-of-the-aspen-institute-winter-2018-2019/the-american-west/  
• Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in America,” 1893 (excerpts). http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text1/turner.pdf 
• Joshua Johns, “A Brief History of Nature and the American Consciousness,” Nature and the American Identity, April 5,1996. https://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/NATURE/cap2.html 
• Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, PBS. 2009. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-national-parks/ 
• John O’Sullivan, “On Manifest Destiny,” The United States Democratic Review, volume 6, issue, 23, pp. 426-430, 1839 (excerpt). https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/osulliva.htm
• Patrick J. Kriger, “10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America,” History, September 4, 2019. https://www.history.com/news/transcontinental-railroad-changed-america 
• Dave Roos, “How Horses Transformed Life for Plains Indians,” History, November 6, 2020. https://www.history.com/news/horses-plains-indians-native-americans
• Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, and Christian Zacher (eds.), The Midwest: An Interpretation, Humanities Institute, Ohio State University. https://huminst.osu.edu/i-midwest-interpretation 
• Dana Lind, “37 Maps that Explain How America is a Nation of Immigrants,” VOX February 7, 2017. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7474897/immigration-america-maps
• History of Immigration, 1620-1783. https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/548-history-of-immigration-1620-1783.html
• History of Immigration, 1783-1891. https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/549-history-of-immigration-1783-1891.html
• History of Immigration after 1891. https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/550-history-of-immigration-after-1891.html

The land and the landscape

• US Geological Survey: www.usgs.gov
• National Park Services: https://www.nps.gov/index.htm
• The Department of the Interior: https://www.doi.gov/
• The Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/
• US Climate Regions: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/maps/us-climate-regions.php
• Cultural Maps in American Studies, Xroads, University of Virginia: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
• U.S. Forest Service: https://www.fs.usda.gov/
• Bureau of Indian Affairs: https://www.bia.gov/bia
• Interactive Map of Mineral Resources and Mines Across the United States: https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/mineral-resources-data-system-map-viewer

Environmentalist groups

• Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/
• Conservation Fund: http://www.conservationfund.org/
• Environmental Defense Fund: https://www.edf.org/ 

Cultural Regions

The South:

• The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
• The Southern Foodways Alliance: https://www.southernfoodways.org/
• Documenting the South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: http://docsouth.unc.edu/

The West:

• The Bill Lance Center for the Study of the American West, Stanford University: https://west.stanford.edu/
• History Colorado, http://www.historycolorado.org/blogs/
• Center of the American West, http://centerwest.org/
• American West Photographs, National Archives:  https://www.archives.gov/research/american-west  
• Manifest Destiny and the West, National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/manifest-destiny-west.html
• California Missions Foundation: https://californiamissionsfoundation.org/the-california-missions/

The Northeast:

• Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/index.cfm
• New England Historical Society: http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/
• Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/
• The Paul Revere House: https://www.paulreverehouse.org/the-real-story/
• Jess Blumberg, A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials Smithsonian Magazone, October 23,2007: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

The Midwest:

• Heartland History, the podcast of the Midwestern History Association:  https://www.midwesternhistory.com/podcast-2
• South Dakota State Historical Society: http://history.sd.gov/
• Iowa Pathways, Iowa Public Television: http://site.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath/arts-culture
• The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Ohio State University: https://huminst.osu.edu/encyclopedia

Chapter Resources

Immigration data and polls

• Migration Information: www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/
• Pew Research Center, Key Findings about US Immigrants: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/
• Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
• U.S. Immigration Trends, Migration Policy Institute: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/us-immigration-trends
• U.S. Immigration/Migration – Statistics & Facts, Statista: https://www.statista.com/topics/805/immigration-migration/
• Gender and Migration. Migration Data Porta;, updated March 11, 2021: https://migrationdataportal.org/themes/gender-and-migration

 

Government websites

• US Citizenship and Immigration Services: www.uscis.gov
• US Census Bureau: www.census.gov
• Current Population Reports: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/library/p25-series.html
• International Migration, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, US Department of State: https://www.state.gov/other-policy-issues/international-migration/

Newspapers and magazines

• The New York Times: Immigration and emigration section http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html
• Ted Hessen, Five Ways Immigration System Changed after 9/11. ABC News, September 14, 2012 https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/ways-immigration-system-changed-911/story?id=17231590
• Ali Noorani, Out of Many, One: Immigration, Identity and the American Dream. Knight Foundation, December 19, 2019. https://knightfoundation.org/articles/out-of-many-one-immigration-identity-and-the-american-dream/
• Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno Youngs, Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expnad Legal Immigration, New York Times, May 31, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/us/politics/biden-immigration.html
• Ed Lowther, US Election 2020: Trump’s Impact on Immigration – in Seven Charts. BBC News, October 22, 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54638643

Online exhibits and primary sources

• Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States 1786-1930, Harvard University Open Collections Program: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, Curiosity Collections, Harvard Library: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/immigration-to-the-united-states-1789-1930?utm_source=library.harvard
• The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation, searchable databases, timeline, online exhibits: http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/
• Library of Congress’online exhibit on Chinese immigration to the US 1851-1900: https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/chinimms/
• Jane Addams, “Chapter XI Immigrants and Their Children” from Twenty Years at the Hull House (1912). Addams was a progressive social reformer working among immigrant groups in Chicago. Available at: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html#231
• John Harrower, “Diary of John Harrower, Indentured Servant, 1173-1776”: https://archive.org/details/jstor-1834690/page/n19/mode/2up
• Ellis DuRant Smith, “’Shut the Door’”: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restrictions” Congressional Record, April 9, 1924: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5080
• JFK and a Nation of Immigrants, Podcast by the JFK Library Foundation: https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/social-media-apps/jfk35-podcast/season-1-episode-6-jfk-and-a-nation-of-immigrants/transcript
• Densho: The Japanese Experience during World War II: https://densho.org/
• Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience, SEAdoc: https://seaadoc.lib.uci.edu/
• Bracero History Archive: http://braceroarchive.org/
• Adrian Florid, Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely But It’s Happened Before. NPR, September 8, 2015: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/09/08/437579834/mass-deportation-may-sound-unlikely-but-its-happened-before?t=1622897174900
• Report: LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States, UCLA School of Law, Williams Institutes, February 2021: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-immigrants-in-the-us/
• New Beginnings: Immigrant Women and the American Experience. National Women’s History Museum (2015): https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/new-beginnings-immigrant-women-and-the-american-experience-national-women%E2%80%99s-history-museum/5gLSyiVkZcVkLw?hl=en

Nonfiction books

• Roger Daniels, (1990) Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life.
• Ronald Takaki, (1998) Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans.
• Matthew Frye Jacobson, (1999) Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race.
• Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, (2018) My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family and Food.

Films

• The Immigrant (1917)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• West Side Story (1961)
• Avalon (1990)
• My Family (1993)
• The Godfather, Part II (1972)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Namesake (Mira Nair, 2006)
• Brooklyn (2015)
• Gran Torino (2008)
• Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
• The Big Sick (2017)

Chapter Resources

Women

• National Organization of Women (feminist organization established in 1966): http://www.now.org/
• The National Women’s History Museum: https://www.nwhm.org/
• Women, The National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/womens-history.html
• My Own Words, Ruther Bader Ginsberg (2016): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/My_Own_Words/nXsmDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
• The History of Women’s Work and Wages and How it Has Created Success for All of Us, Janet L. Yellen, Brookings (2020): https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/    
• Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (book, 1997)
• MS Magazine: http://www.msmagazine.com/
• Gender Pay Gap in U.S. Held Steady in 2020, Amanda Barroso and Anna Brown, The Pew Research Center (2021): https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/25/gender-pay-gap-facts/
• Types of Feminism: The Four Waves, Human Rights Careers: https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/types-of-feminism-the-four-waves/

Films

• 9 to 5 (1980)
• North Country (2005)
• Joy (2015)
• The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• Hidden Figures (2016)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
• Rosie the Riveter (1944)

Native Americans

• National Museum of the American Indian: http://www.nmai.si.edu/
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (book, 2015)
• “Native American Poetry and Culture,” a collection from the Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/69984
• Pictures of American Indians, National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/pictures
• Indian Country Demographics, National Congress of American Indians: https://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/demographicsSSSS
• Indian Country Today (newspaper): https://indiancountrytoday.com/
• American Indian Holocaust and Survival, Russell Thornton (book 1987)

 

Films

• Smoke Signals (1998)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
• Dance Me Outside (2008)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1993)
• Powwow Highway (1989)

LGBT

• Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (book 2012)
• LGBT Historical Society: http://www.glbthistory.org/museum/
• Lamda Legal: www.lambdalegal.org/
• GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD): www.glad.org
• The Advocate (magazine): http://www.advocate.com/
• A Timeline of the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in the USA, Georgetown Law Library: https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=592919&p=4182201
• Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement, PBS, American Experience: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/
• LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States, UCLA School of Law Williams Institute (February 2021): https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-immigrants-in-the-us/

Films

• Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
• Milk (2008)
• The Kids are Alright (2010)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• A Single Man (2009)
• Stonewall (2015)
• Moonlight (2016)
• Carol (2015)
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)

African Americans

• The National Museum of African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, primary sources from the civil rights movement: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project
• Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/
• Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
• The Growing Diversity of Black America, Christine Tamire, Pew Research Center, March 25, 2021: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/03/25/the-growing-diversity-of-black-america/
• The African American Migration Story: Many Rivers to Cross, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/on-african-american-migrations/
• African American Heritage: Black Power, National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans
• Biden Signs Juneteenth National Independence Day Act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZU7vbnMXPI

Films

• Glory (1989)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Selma (2014)
• Loving (2016)
• The Help (2011)
• Harriet (2019)
• 13th (2016)

Asian Americans

• The Chinese American Museum LA: http://camla.org/
• Japanese American National Museum: www.janm.org/
• Chinese Historical Society of America: https://chsa.org/
• Japanese Internment Camps, History, April 27, 2021: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
• Japanese-American Internment During World  War II, National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation
• Chinese-Americans, Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/rise-of-asian-americans-2012-analysis/chinese/

Films

• The Namesake (Mira Nair, 2006)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
• Searching for General Tso (2014, documentary).
• Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Minari (2020)
• The Farewell (2019)
• To Be Takei (2014)
• The Split Horn (2001) https://www.pbs.org/splithorn/film.html

Latino Americans

• Smithsonian Latino Center: http://latino.si.edu/
• National Museum of Mexican Art: http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/
• Numbers, data from Pew Research Group: http://www.pewhispanic.org/
• Latino USA Podcasts: https://www.latinousa.org/topics/podcasts/
• Latino Americans, PBS (documentary series): https://www.pbs.org/show/latino-americans/
• Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation: https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-6274

Films

• César Chávez (2014)
• Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)
• Chicano! (1996)
• Selena (1997)
• Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna, 2007)

Chapter Resources

Blogs and online magazines

• Religion in American History: http://usreligion.blogspot.co.uk/
• Religion and Politics: http://religionandpolitics.org/
• Religion Dispatches: http://religiondispatches.org/
• Immanent Frame: https://tif.ssrc.org/

Religious magazines and newspapers

• Christianity Today (evangelical Protestant)
• Christian Century (mainline Protestant)
• The Forward (Jewish)
• Ensign (Mormon)
• America: The Jesuit Review (Catholic)
• First Things (conservative Catholic)

Research groups

• The Pluralism Project, Harvard University: http://pluralism.org/
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/index.html
• Pew Forum: http://religions.pewforum.org/
• The Association for Religion Data: http://www.thearda.com/
• Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI): https://www.prri.org/

 

Church-state issues

Liberal, secular groups:

• Freedom from Religion Foundation, https://ffrf.org/
• American Civil Liberty Union: https://www.aclu.org/

Conservative Christian group:

• Alliance Defending Freedom, https://www.adflegal.org/

Key Supreme Court cases

• You may study rulings mentioned in the book at Justia: https://supreme.justia.com/
• Other important cases are listed by The Bill of Rights Institute: https://billofrightsinstitute.org/cases/

Civil religion

• Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” first published in Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from the issue entitled, “Religion in America,” Winter 1967, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 1-21: http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm
• “Civil Religion,” Encyclopedia on Religion and Society, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, on Bellah’s article and its context: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/civilrel.htm
• George Monbiot. “America is a Religion,” The Guardian, 29 July 2003, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/29/usa.comment

Articles and essays

• Kimbra Cutlip, The Scopes Trial Redefined Science Journalism and Shaped It to What it is Today, Smithsonian Magazine, July 10, 2015.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/scopes-trial-redefined-science-journalism-shaped-it-what-it-is-today-180955881/
• John R. Vile, American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 as Amended in 1994. The First Amendment Encyclopedia (2009). https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1053/american-indian-religious-freedom-act-of-1978-as-amended-in-1994
• Wynema Morris-Walthill, Native American Church, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.rel.036
• Joseph P. Sanchez, Life in the Missions: Between Reality, Romance and Revolt, National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/articles/life-in-the-missions-between-reality-romance-and-revolt.htm
• Donald Scott, Mormonism and the American Mainstream. The National Humanities Center. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nmormon.htm
• D. Kraybill, K. Johnson-Weiner, and S Holt, The Amish (2013). https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=O3lQsi9a2h0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=amish&ots=XUOqXp8FsK&sig=uWICgRKIzyJb5_qR3PRtJBe8EL4#v=onepage&q=amish&f=false

Documentaries

• God in America (2010), a history of religion in American public life
• The Mormons (2007), a history of the Mormon tradition
• Friends of God (Alexandra Pelosi, 2006), on contemporary evangelical Christianity
• The Muslims are Coming! (Negin Farsad & Dean Obeidallah, 2013), a story of Muslim comedians touring America
• The Scopes Trial, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/08/2/l_082_01.html

Films

• The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
• Sister Act (Emile Ardolino, 1992)
• The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997)
• Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac, 2003)
• Saved! (Brian Dannelly 2004)
• Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008)
• Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)

On religion in films

• Tom Shone, “A movie miracle: how Hollywood found religion” The Guardian, July 31, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/31/-sp-faith-films-hollywood-religion-christian-noah-heaven-is-real-bible
• Alissa Wilkinson, “How 2016's movies and TV reflected Americans’ changing relationship with religion,” Vox Dec. 28, 2016. http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13899722/religion-tv-movies-2016-sausage-party-silence-innocents-americans-rectify

Fiction and memoirs

• Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin (novel)
• “The Scarlet Letter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (memoir)
• “Defender of the Faith,” Philip Roth (short story)
• Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger (novel)
• The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta (novel)

Podcasts

• NPR's list of religion and spirituality podcasts: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/2039/religion-spirituality
• On Being with Krista Tippett: http://onbeing.org/

Chapter Resources

• The White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
• The House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
• The Senate: https://www.senate.gov/
• Federal agencies and offices: https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a
• The US Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/

Research centers and primary source collections

• Presidential Libraries: https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries
• The Miller Center, University of Virginia: https://millercenter.org/
• The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
• Archived Presidential White House websites at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites
• History, Art, and Archives: United States House of Representatives: http://history.house.gov/

Podcasts, blogs, and articles:

• History News Network:   http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/category/3
• 538, blog founded by statistician Nate Silver: https://fivethirtyeight.com
• 538 Elections, the 538 podcast: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/
• NPR Politics Podcast: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510310/npr-politics-podcast
• Presidential, podcast on US presidents and their lives and legacies during the 2016 presidential election by Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/
• The Guardian’s coverage of the US Congress: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress
• The American System of Government: Separation of Powers, Law Shelf: https://lawshelf.com/shortvideoscontentview/the-american-system-of-government-separation-of-powers/
• Electoral College Fast Facts, History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives: https://history.house.gov/Institution/Electoral-College/Electoral-College/
• Sage Ann Schneider, Outgrowing the Electoral College, Purdue Policy Research Institute Blog, December 1, 2020: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/ppri/blog/outgrowing-the-electoral-college/
• Democratic Party, History, updated January 20, 2021: https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/democratic-party
• Republican Party, History, updated February 1, 2021: https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/republican-party
• Democrat vs Republican, Diffen: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
• Branches of the U.S. Government: https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government
• Katherine Schaeffer, Racial, Ethnic Diversity Increases Yet Again with the 117th Congress. Pew Research Center, January 28, 2021: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/28/racial-ethnic-diversity-increases-yet-again-with-the-117th-congress/
• Danielle Root, Jake Faleschini, and Grace Oyenubi, Building a More Inclusive Federal Judiciary, Center for American Progress, October 3, 2019: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/courts/reports/2019/10/03/475359/building-inclusive-federal-judiciary/
• Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, and Stephen Weymouth,  “The Covid 19 Panademic and the 202 US Presidential Election,” Journal of Population Economics, 2021: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-020-00820-3

Nonfiction books

• Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s. Columbia University Press, 2015.
• Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Scribner, 2008.
• H. W. Brands, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anchor Books, 2009.
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,1835. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm
• Barack Obama, A Promised Land, 2020.
• For information books that shape the current political debate, see e.g. the New York Times bestsellers list: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/

Films

• All the President’s Men (1976)
• Primary Colors (1998)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Election (1999)
• W. (2008)
• Game Change (2012)
• Lincoln (2012)
• The Campaign (2012)
• Southside with You (2016)
• RBG (2018)
• The Post (2017)

TV series

• John Adams (HBO, 2008)
• The West Wing (NBC, 1999-2006)
• Veep (HBO, 2012-2019)
• Designated Survivor (ABC, 2016-2018; Netflix, 2018-2019)
• House of Cards (Netflix, 2013-2018)

Chapter Resources

• Links to charters and constitutions of the states form American Legal History Online Sources, University of Chicago: http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/amerleghistonline
• Local and regional newspapers cover state and local politics. Some good starting points include:
• Kansas City Star: https://www.kansascity.com/
• Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/
• The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/
• The Columbus Dispatch: https://www.dispatch.com/
• Omaha World-Herald: https://omaha.com/
• Minneapolis Star Tribune: https://www.startribune.com/
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: https://www.ajc.com

Other websites

• American Politics: State Statistics and Reference, Princeton University Library: https://libguides.princeton.edu/politics/american/states
• Learn about Districts: Special Districts: The Most Local of Local Governments, California Special Districts Association: https://www.csda.net/special-districts/learn-about
• State and Local Governmant, Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/government/state_local_government/

Contemporary and historical state-federal issues

• Dan Levine, “In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights,” Reuters, Jan. 26, 2017: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-legal-analysis-idUSKBN15A1H1
• Victoria Davis Hanson, “Commentary: California goes Confederate,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9, 2017: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-california-secession-calexit-trump-20170209-story.html
• State’s Rights and the Civil War, HistoryNet: https://www.historynet.com/states-rights-civil-war
• Conor Friedersdorf, “The Superiority of a State’s Rights Approach to Marijuana,” The Atlantic, January 4, 2018: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-superior-morality-of-a-states-rights-approach-to-marijuana/549707/
• Jonathan H. Adler, ed. Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane. Brookings Institution Press (2020): https://www.brookings.edu/book/marijuana-federalism/
• States’ Rights: Further Readings.Law Library: https://law.jrank.org/pages/10488/States-Rights.html
• Greg Goelzhauser, David M Konisky, The State of American Federalism 2019–2020: Polarized and Punitive Intergovernmental Relations, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Summer 2020: https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/50/3/311/5870265
• Gary Gerstle, “The New Federalism”, The Atlantic, June 6, 2020: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/new-federalism/611077/
• Alexandra G. Cockerham and Robert E. Crew, Jr., The Covid-19 Pandemic Shows the Power and Limits of American Federalism. LSE Phelan US Centre., April 3, 2020: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/04/03/the-covid-19-pandemic-shows-the-power-and-limits-of-american-federalism/
• Jennifer Selin, How the Constitution’s Federalist Framework is Being Tested by COVID-19, Brookings, June 8, 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/08/how-the-constitutions-federalist-framework-is-being-tested-by-covid-19/
• Lindsay Deen, Ten Reasons Why We Should Pay Attention to Local Politics, US Represented, April 10, 2021: https://usrepresented.com/2021/04/10/ten-reasons-pay-attention-local-politics/
• John Haughey, The Biggest Issues Facing State Legislators in 2021, FiscalNote, October 20, 2020: https://fiscalnote.com/blog/the-biggest-issues-facing-state-legislators-in-2021
• Amy Liu and Fred Dews, State and Local Issues in the 2020 Election, Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, October 23, 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/state-and-local-issues-in-the-2020-election/
• What is a Special District? MRSC Local Government Success: https://mrsc.org/Home/Explore-Topics/Governance/Forms-of-Government-and-Organization/Special-Purpose-Districts-in-Washington/What-is-a-Special-District.aspx
• Christopher B. Goodman, Special Districts: America’s Shadow Governments, Government Finance Research Center, April 5, 2021: https://gfrc.uic.edu/special-districts-americas-shadow-governments/
• The Evolution of Cooperative Federalism, Blog, Tulane University Law School, April 15, 2021: https://online.law.tulane.edu/blog/the-evolution-of-cooperative-federalism
• Ted C. Fishman, “America’s Next Crisis Is Already Here”, The Atlantic, May 21, 2020: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/state-and-local-governments-are-plunging-crisis/611932/
• Chris Edwards, Restoring Responsible Government by Cutting Federal Aid to the States, CATO Institute, May 20, 2019: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/restoring-responsible-government-cutting-federal-aid-states#
• What types of federal grants are made to state and local governments and how do they work? Tax Policy Center Briefing Book: The State of State (and Local) Tax Policy: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-types-federal-grants-are-made-state-and-local-governments-and-how-do-they-work
• Mercatus Center, George Mason University: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Federal-grant-aid-state-and-local-chart-analysis-pdf.pdf
• Jessica M. Vaughan and Bryan Griffith, Map: Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States, Center for Immigration Studies, March 22, 2021: https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States
• Katy Murdza, Biden Moves to End Trump’s War on ‘Sanctuary Cities’, Immigration Impact, May 4, 2021: https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/05/04/biden-sanctuary-city-policy/
• Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson, “What are 'Sanctuary' Cities and Why is Trump Targeting Them?” Reuters, February 25, 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-crime-idUSKBN20J25R
• History of Initiative and Referendum in the U.S., Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_initiative_and_referendum_in_the_U.S.

Films

• Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• All the King’s Men (1949)
• Blaze (1989)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• The Candidate (1972)
• City Hall (2020)
• Milk (2008)

TV

• Spin City (1996-2002)
• Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
• The Wire (esp. season 4) (2002-2008)
• City So Real (2020)

Chapter Resources

• US State Department: https://www.state.gov/
• Central Intelligence Agency:   https://www.cia.gov/resources/ 
• Nafta: http://www.naftanow.org/
• Summits of the Americas: www.summit-americas.org
• United Nations: www.un.org/en/
• NATO: www.nato.int/nato-welcome/

Historical documents

• The Avalon Project of the William Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Key collections and documents include:

• British-American diplomacy: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/brtreaty.asp
• Franco-American diplomacy: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/frtreaty.asp
• Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ntreaty.asp
• Cold War Diplomacy, Defense Treaties of the United States: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mutdef.asp
• September 11, 2001, Attack on America: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/sept_11.asp
• Monroe Doctrine: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/monroe.asp
• Truman Doctrine: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
• McCarthyism/The Red Scare. Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare
• Transcript of George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796): https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=15&page=transcript

Journals and magazines

• Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
• Foreign Policy: http://foreignpolicy.com/
• The National Interest: http://nationalinterest.org/

Think tanks and organizations

• Hoover Institution: http://www.hoover.org/
• Wilson Center: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/
• Brookings Institution: https://www.brookings.edu/topic/international-affairs/
• Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/
• For a comprehensive guide over foreign policy think tanks and organizations at the University of Southern California: http://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234935&p=1559225

Articles, blogs and websites:

• McCarthyism and the Red Scare, The Miller Center: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/age-of-eisenhower/mcarthyism-red-scare
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis
• Manhattan Project: An Interactive History: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/potsdam_decision.htm
• How the Attack on Pearl Harbor Shaped America’s Role in the World, The Conversation, December 6, 2016: https://theconversation.com/how-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-shaped-americas-role-in-the-world-69963
• Great Responsibilities and New Global Power. The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/new-global-power-after-world-war-ii-1945
• The Biden Agenda, Foreign Policy Magazine: https://foreignpolicy.com/projects/biden-foreign-policy-agenda/
• Trump’s Foreign Policy Moments, Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments
• Scott Horsley, Patient Diplomacy And A Reluctance To Act: Obama's Mark On Foreign Policy, NPR, September 20, 2016: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494625983/patient-diplomacy-and-a-reluctance-to-act-obamas-mark-on-foreign-policy?t=1624317477431
• Gary L. Gregg II, George W. Bush: Foreign Affairs, The Miller Center. https://millercenter.org/president/gwbush/foreign-affairs
• Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: Foreign Affairs, The Miller Center: https://millercenter.org/president/lincoln/foreign-affairs
• Charles Kupchan in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On, How American Exceptionalism Leads to American Isolationism (podcast), December 3, 2020: https://lithub.com/how-american-exceptionalism-leads-to-american-isolationism/

TV

• Madam Secretary (CBS, 2014-2019)
• Homeland (Showtime, 2011-2020)
• The Americans (FX, 2013-2018)
• Narcos (Netflix, 2015-)
• The Vietnam War (documentary): https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/
• Winds of War (ABC, 1983 mini-series)

Films

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Thirteen Days (2000)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
• Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
• Sicario (2015)
• Argo (2012)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Rendition (2007)

Chapter Resources

Links to federal legal institutions

• US Department of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/
• Federal Bureau of Investigation: www.fbi.gov
• Supreme Court of the United States: https://www.supremecourt.gov/

Primary sources and historical documents

• Legal History Guide, University of Texas: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/friendly.php?s=legal-history
• Women and the Law, Harvard Business School: https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/collections/women_law/

Activist groups

• The Innocence Project: https://www.innocenceproject.org/
• The Sentencing Project: http://www.sentencingproject.org/

Blogs and podcasts

• The Scotus Blog: http://www.scotusblog.com/
• Bloomberg Law: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/law
• The Law Blog, Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
• Jonathan Jackson et al, Racist Policing in Making Black and White American Question Police Authority, LSE Phelan US Centre Daily Blog: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/07/14/racist-policing-is-making-black-and-white-americans-question-police-authority/

Articles and websites:

• About Federal Courts: Court Role and Structure: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure
• About Federal Courts: Comparing Federal & State Courts: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure/comparing-federal-state-courts
• Nia Prater, What Happens Next after the Derke Chauvin Verdict? Intelligencer, May 14, 2021. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-happens-next-after-derek-chauvin-verdict.html
• Albert Hunt, The Last Days of Roe v. Wade? The Hill, May 30, 2021. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/556116-the-last-days-of-roe-v-wade
• Death Penalty. Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/death_penalty
• Death Penalty Information Center: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/history-of-the-death-penalty/constitutionality-of-the-death-penalty-in-america
• The Case Against the Death Penalty, ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/other/case-against-death-penalty
• Joshua Feinzig and Joshua Zoffer, “A Constitutional Case for Gun Control,” The Atlantic,  October 28, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/constitutional-case-gun-control/600694/
• James Fallows, “A Case Against Gun Control,” The Atlantic, February 24, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2018/02/a-case-against-gun-control/553715/

Books (fiction and nonfiction)

• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)
• Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)
• Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-town America (2009)
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness(2012)
• Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (2012)

 

Some key Supreme Court cases

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Furman v. Georgia (1972)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
• You may find information about the cases at Justia: https://supreme.justia.com/

Films

• Adam’s Rib (1949)
• Twelve Angry Men (1957)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Erin Brockovich (1999)
• Bowling for Columbine (2002), documentary
• Runaway Jury (2003)
• 13th (2016), documentary
• RBC (2018), documentary

TV

• Orange Is the New Black (Netflix, 2013-2019)
• Better Call Saul (AMC, 2015-)
• Making a Murderer (Netflix, 2015)
• The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX, 2016)
• The Night Of (HBO, 2016)

Chapter Resources

Magazines and newspapers

• Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/news/business
• Business Insider (choose US edition): http://www.businessinsider.com
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/
• Black Enterprise: http://www.blackenterprise.com/
• Forbes (choose US edition): https://www.forbes.com/

Books, nonfiction

• Jacqueline Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor, 1999
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2003.
• Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, 2010
• J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, 2016

Articles, blogs, podcasts, and websites

• The Robber Barons, BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b080kw3g
• Gus Lubin , Michael B Kelley , and Rob Wile, Meet the 24 Robber Barons Who Once Ruled American, Business Insider, March 20, 2012: https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-robber-barons-2012-3?r=US&IR=T
• What was the Big Story in Economics Over the Past Decade?” The Brookings Institute, December 16, 2019: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/12/16/what-was-the-big-story-in-economics-over-the-last-decade/
• The Great Depression, 1929-1941, Federal Reserve History: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-depression
• Kimberly Amadeo, The 9 Principle Effects of the Great Depression, The Balance, March 29, 2021: https://www.thebalance.com/effects-of-the-great-depression-4049299
• David C. Wheelock. The Great Depression: An Overview: https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/great-depression/the-great-depression-wheelock-overview.pdf
• Brian Domitrovic, “A New Look at the Economics Behind the Civil War,“ Forbes, February 14, 2012: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2012/02/14/a-new-look-at-the-economics-behind-the-civil-war/?sh=69daa6de425e
• Robert D. Atkinson and Michael Lind, “Is Big Business Really that Bad?” The Atlantic: April 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/learning-to-love-big-business/554096/
• Robin Bleiweis, Diana Boesch, and Alexandra Cawthorne Gaines , The Basic Facts about Women in Poverty, Center for American Progress, August 3, 2020: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/08/03/488536/basic-facts-women-poverty/
• U.S. Poverty Statistics, Federal Safety Net, September 2020: https://www.federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html
• Caleb Crain, “State of the Unions: What Happened to America’s Labor Movement?” The New Yorker, August, 26, 2019: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/state-of-the-unions

Novels

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby(1925)
• John Steinbeck,The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
• Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
• Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)

 

Key legislation on business and labor

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• National Labor Relations Act (1935)
• Social Security Act (1935)
• Taft–Hartley Act (1947)
• The National Environmental Policy Act (1970)
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
• Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (2020)
• You may find information about them through the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/

Films

• Modern Times (1936)
• The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Trader (1987), documentary
• Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
• Boiler Room (2000)
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), documentary
• Wall Street Warriors (2006)
• The Last Days of Lehmann Brothers (2009)
• The Usual Suspect: Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), documentary
• We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis (2009), documentary
• Inside Job (2010), documentary
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
• Too Big to Fail (2012)
• Inequality for All (2013), documentary
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• The Founder (2016)

Chapter Resources

Government offices

• US Department of Health & Human Services: https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/index.html  
• US Social Security Service Administration: www.ssa.gov
• US Department of Veterans Affairs: https://www.va.gov/
• Medicaid: https://www.medicaid.gov/index.html
• Medicare: https://www.medicare.gov/

Books

• Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, Simon & Schuster, 1962.
• Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, Three Rivers oress, 1987.
• Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, rev. ed., Harvard University Press, 1994.
• T. Skocpol, Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective, Princeton University Press, 1995
• Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, Yale University Press, 2009
• John A. Andrew III, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Metropolitan Books, 2001.
• Paul Starr, The Social Tranformation of American Medicine: The Rise Of A Sovereign Profession And The Making Of A Vast Industry, rev. ed, Basic Books, 2017.

 

Articles and websites

• Patrick Sisson, Jeff Andrews, and Alex Bazeley, The Affordable Housing Crisis Explained: Blame Policy, Demographics, and Market Forces, Curbed, updated May 2, 2020: https://archive.curbed.com/2019/5/15/18617763/affordable-housing-policy-rent-real-estate-apartment
• Isabel Solange Muñoz The Coronavirus Pandemic is Making the American Housing Crisis Even Worse, The Conversation, April 17, 2020: https://theconversation.com/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-making-the-us-housing-crisis-even-worse-136025
• Roosa Tikkanen, Melinda K. Abrams, U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019: Higher Spending, Worse Outcomes?, The Commonwealth Fund, January 30, 2020: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019
• Jeff Griffen, The History of Medicine and Organized Healthcre in American, Blog, JP Griffen Group, March 27, 2020: https://www.griffinbenefits.com/blog/history-of-healthcare
• Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh, A Dozen Facts about the Economics of the US Health-care System, Brookings, March 10, 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-the-economics-of-the-u-s-health-care-system/
• Leslie Hook and Hannah Kuchler, “How Coronavirus Broke America’s Healthcare System,” Financial Times, April 30, 2020: https://www.ft.com/content/3bbb4f7c-890e-11ea-a01c-a28a3e3fbd33
• Kimberly Amadeo, New Deal Summary, Programs, Policies, and Its Success: Four Surprising Ways the New Deal Affects You Today, The Balance, July 31, 2020: https://www.thebalance.com/fdr-and-the-new-deal-programs-timeline-did-it-work-3305598
• The State of Homelessness in America: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report-legacy/
• Louis Hyman, “The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think,“ The Atlantic, March 6, 2019: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/surprising-truth-about-roosevelts-new-deal/584209/
• Henry J. Aaron, The Social Safety Net: The Gaps that COVID-19 Spotlights, Brookings, June 23, 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/06/23/the-social-safety-net-the-gaps-that-covid-19-spotlights/
• Adam A. Millsap, “Rethinking the Social Safety Net,” Forbes, January 14, 2021: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2021/01/14/rethinking-the-social-safety-net/?sh=4d24596a6c61
• Pam Fessler, HUD: Growth Of Homelessness During 2020 Was 'Devastating,' Even Before The Pandemic, NPR, March 18, 2021: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978244891/hud-growth-of-homelessness-during-2020-was-devastating-even-before-the-pandemic?t=1624710270741
• Danilo Trisi and Matt Saenz, Economic Security Programs Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Over Last 50 Years, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated November 26, 2019: https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/economic-security-programs-cut-poverty-nearly-in-half-over-last-50
• Laura Santhanam, Why the US is Rethinking its Approach to Poverty, PBS News Hour, March 19, 2021: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/why-the-u-s-is-rethinking-its-approach-to-poverty

Key legislation on healthcare and social welfare

• Social Security Act (1935)
• Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
• Appalachian Regional Development Act (1965)
• Social Security Act (1965)
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996)
• Affordable Care Act (2010)
• The CARES Act (2020)
• You may find information about them through the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/

Films

• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• The Rainmaker (1997)
• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
• Sicko (2007)
• Winter's Bone (2010)
• Where is Kyra? (2018)
• The Disability Trap (2018)
• Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
• Nomadland (2020)

Chapter Resources

Departments of Education

• US Department of Education: https://www.ed.gov/
• For links to individual state departments, see:  https://www2.ed.gov/about/contacts/state/index.html

Magazines and rankings

• Chronicle of Higher Education:  https://www.chronicle.com/ 
• US News Best Colleges Rankings: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges

Education organizations

• American Federation of Teachers:   http://www.aft.org
• National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/
• National Association of Independent Schools: http://www.nais.org/Pages/default.aspx
• National Association for Public Charter Schools: http://www.publiccharters.org/
• Home SchoolLegal DefenseAssociation: https://www.hslda.org/
• Common Core Standards Initiative: http://www.corestandards.org/
• National Association for Multicultural Education:              http://www.nameorg.org/ 
• Magnet Schools of America: http://www.magnet.edu/
• American Association of Community Colleges:   https://www.aacc.nche.edu/
• Council for Christian Colleges & Universities: http://www.cccu.org/
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP): https://www.aaup.org/

Key Supreme Court cases

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
• You may find information about the rulings at Justia: https://supreme.justia.com/

Key education acts

• Land-Grant College Act (1862)
• National Defense Education Act (1958)
• Elementary and Secondary Educational Act (1965)
• Higher Education Act (1965)
• No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
• Every Student Succeeds Act (2015)
• You may find information about them through the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/

Articles, websites, and blogs

• Tray Kay, Deborah George, Stan Bumgardner, “The Great Textbook War,” Us and Them, American Public Media podcast:  http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/textbooks/
• J. Weston Phippen and National Journal, “How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to Its Rise,” The Atlantic, June 19, 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/how-one-law-banning-ethnic-studies-led-to-rise/398885/
• 10 Important Supreme Court Cases about Education, National Constitution Center: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-important-supreme-court-cases-about-education/
• Mary Annette Pember, “Death by Civilization,” The Atlantic, March 8, 2019: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/traumatic-legacy-indian-boarding-schools/584293/
• Morgan Polikoff and Tenice Hardaway , “Don’t Forget Magnet Schools When Thinking about School  Choice,” Brookings, March 16, 2017: https://www.brookings.edu/research/dont-forget-magnet-schools-when-thinking-about-school-choice/
• Zachary Jason, “The Battle Over Charter Schools,” Harvard Ed. Magazine, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Summer 2017: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/17/05/battle-over-charter-schools
• Public Charter School Enrollment, National Center for Education Statistics, updated May 2021: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgb
• Eve. L. Ewing, “Opinion: Can We Stop Fighting about Charter Schools?” The New York Times, February 22, 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/opinion/charter-schools-democrats.html
• Broken Promises: An Analysis of Charter School Closures From 1999 – 2017, NPR podcast: https://networkforpubliceducation.org/brokenpromises/
• Melinda D. Anderson, Bilingualism: When Education and Assimilation Clash,” The Atlantic, October 27, 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/history-bilingual-education/412543/
• R. Shep Melnick, The Real History of School Desegregation from 1954 to the Present. The Fordham Institute, January 17, 2020: https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/real-history-school-desegregation-1954-present
• A History of School Bussing, NPR podcast, June 30, 2019: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/737393607/a-history-of-school-busing?t=1624818504731
• An Overview of the Funding of Public Schools, Public School Review, updated March 31, 2021 by Grace Chen: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/an-overview-of-the-funding-of-public-schools
• Linda Darling-Hammond, “America's School Funding Struggle: How We're Robbing Our Future By Under-Investing In Our Children,” Forbes, August 5, 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindadarlinghammond/2019/08/05/americas-school-funding-struggle-how-were-robbing-our-future-by-under-investing-in-our-children/?sh=146e6dfe5eaf
• Michael Shaw, Homeschooling Experiences and Views During the Pandemic, ENGAGE, August 18, 2020: https://www.edchoice.org/engage/2020-schooling-in-america-series-homeschooling-experiences-and-views-during-the-pandemic/
• Kyle Greenwalt, “Here’s How Homeschooling in Changing in America,” The Conversation, September 12, 2016: Kyle Greenwalt, “Here’s How Homeschooling in Changing in America,” The Conversation, September 12, 2016.

 

Books

• Allan Bloom, (1987) The Closing of the American Mind
• Eric Donald Hirsch, (1987) Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
• Amy Chua, (2012) Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
• Andrew Hartman, (2015) A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
• The publication of Allan Bloom’s seminal work The Closing of the American Mind, (1987) spurred a major debate on American education. The following articles provide some idea of Bloom’s central theses and some reactions to them:
• Jim Sleeper,“Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind,” New York Times, September 4, 2005: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04SLEEPER.html
• Roger Kimball, (2007) “‘Openness’ and The Closing of the American Mind,” New Criterion, November 2007: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/-ldquo-Openness-rdquo-----ldquo-The-Closing-of-the-American-Mind-rdquo--3674
• James Piereson, (2007) “The Closing of the American Mind at 20,” New Criterion, November 2007:https://newcriterion.com/issues/2007/11/ldquothe-closing-of-the-american-mindrdquo-at-20
• Chester E. Finn, Jr. “The End of the Education Debate,” National Affairs, Winter 2010: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-end-of-the-education-debate

Films

• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Inherit the Wind (1960)
• To Sir with Love (1967)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• Dangerous Minds (1995)
• The Hobart Shakespeareans (2005), documentary
• American Teen (2008), documentary
• Won’t Back Down (2012)
• Rich Hill (2014)

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Awards and journalism organizations

• The Pulitzer Prize: http://www.pulitzer.org/
• Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Nieman Journalism Lab: http://www.niemanlab.org/
• Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/

Newspapers

• The New York Times: http://nytimes.com/
• The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
• The Los Angeles Times: http://latimes.com/
• The Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/
• Wall Street Journal:www.wsj.com

Radio and TV news

• NPR News: http://www.npr.org/sections/news/
• PBS Newshour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
• Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/
• ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/
• CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/
• CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/

News aggregators

• Huffington Post (US): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/?country=US
• Buzzfeed News: https://www.buzzfeed.com/news

 

Historical magazines and newspapers

• Puck: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886840
• Ebony: https://www.ebony.com/
• LIFE:  https://www.life.com/
• Search U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, Chronicling America, Library of Congress: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/
• American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Gale: https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/american-historical-periodicals

Articles, blogs, and websites:

• Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century, The Public Doman Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yellow-journalism-the-fake-news-of-the-19th-century
• Delbert Tran, The Fourth Estate as the Final Check, Yale Law School, Median Freedom & Information Access Clinic, November 22, 2016: https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/fourth-estate-final-check
• Greg Young, Pulitzer vs. Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism in Gilded Age New York, The Bowery Boys New York City History podcast, July 30, 2020: https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/07/pulitzer-vs-hearst-the-rise-of-yellow-journalism-in-gilded-age-new-york.html
• Amy Watson, Fake News in the U.S. - Statistics & Facts, Statista, June 16, 2021: https://www.statista.com/topics/3251/fake-news/
• Stephen Poole, “Before Trump: The Real History of Fake News,” The Guardian, November 22, 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/factitious-taradiddle-dictionary-real-history-fake-news
• Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, Elisa Shearer and Mason Walker, U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided, Pew Research Center, January 24, 2020: https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/u-s-media-polarization-and-the-2020-election-a-nation-divided/
• Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Sophia Fedeli, Americans See Made-up News as a Bigger Problem than Other Key issues in the Country, Pew Research Center, June 5, 2-19: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/americans-see-made-up-news-as-a-bigger-problem-than-other-key-issues-in-the-country/
• Bharat N. Anand, “The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles,” Harvard Business Review, January 5, 2017: https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-u-s-medias-problems-are-much-bigger-than-fake-news-and-filter-bubbles
• State of the News Media: Data and Trends about Key Sectors in the U.S. News Media Industry, Rew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/news-habits-media/news-media-trends/state-of-the-news-media-project/
• American Views: Trust, Media and Democracy, The Knight Foundation, 2018: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000160-fbcc-dcd4-a96b-ffeddf140001
• Media and Elections, 3rd ed., The Electoral Knowledge Network, 2012: https://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/me/default
• Freedom of the Press, History, updated August 21, 2018: https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/freedom-of-the-press
• Robert G. Parkinson, Print, the Press, and the American Revolution. American History. Oxford University: https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-9?mediaType=Article
• James Breig, “Early American Newspapering,” CW Journal, Spring 2003: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/spring03/journalism.cfm
• James C. Goodale, ‘Pentagon Papers’ Case 50 Years On: Still a Victory for Free Press, The Hill, June 13, 2021: https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/557706-pentagon-papers-case-50-years-on-a-victory-for-a-free-press
• Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone. National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On, Columbia News podcast, April 20, 2021: https://news.columbia.edu/content/national-security-leaks-freedom-press
• “The Press and Watergate,” The Nation, March 25, 2009: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/press-and-watergate/

 

Films

• Citizen Kane (1941)
• All the President’s Men (1976)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Shattered Glass (2003)
• The Pentagon Papers (2003)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Nothing But the Truth (2008)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Spotlight (2015)
• The Post (2017)

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Museums

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York: https://www.moma.org/
• Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/
• National Jazz Museum, Harlem: http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/
• National Blues Museum, St Louis: https://www.nationalbluesmuseum.org/
• Country Music Hall of Fame Museum, Nashville: http://countrymusichalloffame.org/
• Graceland: The Home of Elvis Presley, Memphis https://www.graceland.com/
• The National Gallery of Art: www.nga.gov
• The National Endowment for the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/

Music chart

• Billboard: http://www.billboard.com/

Pop culture festivals

• The Sundance Film Festival: http://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival
• South by South-West (SXSW): https://www.sxsw.com/
• San Diego Comic-ConInternational: http://www.comic-con.org/
• Coachella: https://www.coachella.com/

Sports

• Sports Illustrated: http://www.si.com/
• ESPN: http://www.espn.com/
• The National Football League: www.nfl.com
• Sport and recreation: www.outdoorfoundation.org
• National Basketball Association: https://www.skysports.com/nba?gr=www
• Major League Baseball: https://www.mlb.com/

Literature associations and magazines

• American Library Association: http://www.ala.org/
• American Academy of Arts and Letters: http://artsandletters.org/
• Poets & Writers: https://www.pw.org/
• The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/
• Virginia Quarterly Review: http://www.vqronline.org/

Libraries and archives

• Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
• Harvard Library: www.lib.harvard.edu
• The National Archives: www.nara.gov/education
• Boston Public Library: http://www.bpl.org/
• New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/

Books, articles, websites, and blogs:

• Hip Hop: A Culture of Vision and Voice, The Kennedy Center: https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/hip-hop/hip-hop-a-culture-of-vision-and-voice/
• History of Hip Hop Music, English Club: https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/music-hip-hop.htm
• David Dye, The Birth of Rap: A look Back, NPR, February 22, 2007: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7550286&t=1624972996855
• The Blues, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/theblues/
• What is Jazz? The National Museum of American History: https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/what-jazz
• Sara Egge, The Origins of Country Music, The Noton Center for the Atrs, March 19, 2017: http://nortoncenter.com/2017/03/19/the-origins-of-country-music/
• Michaelangelo Matos, 1966 Vs. 1971: When 'Rock 'n' Roll' Became 'Rock,' And What We Lost, NPR, September 22, 2016: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/09/22/495021326/1966-vs-1971-when-rock-n-roll-became-rock-and-what-we-lost
• Jon Pareles, “Pete Seeger, Champion of Folk Music and Social Change, Dies at 94,” New York Times, January 28, 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html
• Jeremy Adam Smith and Dacher Keltner, “The Psychology of Taking a Knee,” Scientific American, September 29, 2017: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-psychology-of-taking-a-knee/
• Tejas Kotecha, “Colin Kaepernick: How Taking a Knee Started after NFL Quarterback Met Nate Boyer,” NFL News, December 30, 2020: https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12118/12170048/colin-kaepernick-how-taking-a-knee-started-after-nfl-quarterback-met-nate-boyer
• Male vs Female Professional Sports Salary Comparison, Adelphi University: https://online.adelphi.edu/articles/male-female-sports-salary/
• Jakob Eckstein, How the NFL Makes Money, Investopedia, December 18, 2020: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/062515/how-nfl-makes-money.asp
• Jo Livingstone, “Why are Americans so Hostile to State-funded Art?” The New Republic, May 26, 2017: https://newrepublic.com/article/142925/americans-hostile-state-funded-art
• Charlotte Chilton, “35 Rules You Probably Didn't Know Old Hollywood Stars Had to Follow,” Harper’s Bazaar, April 17, 2020:  https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/g31916339/old-hollywood-star-rules/
• Erin Blakemore, How TV Killed Hollywood’s Golden Age, History, updated September 1, 2018: https://www.history.com/news/how-tv-killed-hollywoods-golden-age
• Reading at Risk, National Endowment for the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/RaRExec_0.pdf
• Andrew Perrin, Who doesn’t read books in America? Pew Research Center: September 26, 2019. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/26/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/
• Caleb Cran, “Why We Don’t Read, Revisited,” The New Yorker, June 14, 2018: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-we-dont-read-revisited

Films

• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• Singing in the Rain (1952)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)
• Deliverance (1972)
• The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• The Sting (1973)
• A Star is Born (1954)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• The Hustler (1961)
• Last Picture Show (1971)
• Cabaret (1972)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• The Last Tycoon (1976)
• All that Jazz (1979)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• The Big Picture (1989)
• Chaplin (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997)
• Frida (2002)
• Friday Night Lights (2004)
• The Fighter (2010)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Moneyball (2011)
• Concussion (2015)