Further Resources


Chapter 1: In Indian Country


Native American Cultures

Article: Columbus and Genocide, American Heritage: https://www.americanheritage.com/columbus-and-genocide#1

Interactive Exhibit: Cahokia Mounds Museum Society: https://www.cahokiamounds.org/explore/

Interactive Exhibit: Exploring the Early Americas, Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/precontact-america.html

Podcast: Pocahontas, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hwn09

Podcast: An American Secret: The Untold Secret of Native American Enslavement, NPR https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/565410514/an-american-secret-the-untold-story-of-native-american-enslavement

Map: The Map of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before, NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before

Interactive Exhibit: The Pequot War: http://pequotwar.org/ Including interactive timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/480305/The-Pequot-War-Era/ and online exhibits:

Interactive Exhibit: Iroquois Village Reconstruction, New York State Museum: http://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/iroquoisvillage/

Interactive Exhibit: Paspahegh Indian Village Reconstruction, Virtual Jamestown: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/paspahegh/examine.html

Interactive Exhibit: Our Beloved Kin: Remapping A New History of King Philip’s War: https://wwwourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/index

Primary Source: Bartoleme de las Casas, Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20321/pg20321-images.html

Primary Source: Thomas Morton, Description of the Indians in New England: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/08-mor.html

Settler Cultures

Interactive Exhibit: Historic Jamestowne: https://wwwhistoricjamestowne.org/

Primary Sources: Mayflower 400: https://www.mayflower400uk.org/education/

Video: First Freedom: City Upon A Hill, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/first-freedom-city-upon-hill/

Podcast: The Pilgrim Fathers,BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007rlb6

Podcast: The Salem Witchcraft Trials, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pxp2z

Article & Primary Source: Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World – John White’s Sketches:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sketching-the-earliest-views-of-the-new-world-92306407/

Primary Source: The Mayflower Compact, Plimoth Plantation: https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact

Primary Source: John Winthrop, City upon a Hill speech: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/winthrop.htm

Primary Source: Plymouth Colony Archive project: http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/index2.html

Primary Source: Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm

Primary Source: Thomas Matthew, The beginning, progress and conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in the years 1675 & 1676, Virginia History:https://www.virginiahistory.org/node/2292

Chapter 2: A Provincial Society in an Atlantic World

Colonial Life

Interactive Exhibit: The New Netherland Institute: https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/

Primary Sources & Interactive Exhibit: Visualizing Benjamin Franklin’s Correspondence Network, Republic of Letters Project: http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/casestudies/franklin.html

Primary Source: Sarah Kemble Knight, The Journal of Madam Knight: https://wwwbooks.google.co.uk/books?id=rmzi3tSDuh4C&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=Sarah+Kemble+Knight,+The+Journal+of+Madam+Knight,+With+an+Introductory+Note+by+George+Parker+Winship+(Boston:+Small,+Maynard+%26+Company,+1920&source=bl&ots=u5L8_DH4sU&sig=ACfU3U3Q271aP_MO9FNALeu0cgo8LIzXnQ&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Video, Families in the New England and Middle Colonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13PQuZ6ucOs, part of Columbia University’s series, Women Have Always Worked: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSuwqsAnJMtyThqfrxNrcsZWowFgrjhPb

Colonial Religion

Interactive Exhibit: The First Great Awakenin: http://www.great-awakening.com/

Primary Sources: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov./exhibits/religion/rel02.html

Primary Source: Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: http://edwards.yale.edu/research/major-works/sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-god/ Part of the Jonathan Edwards Center archive: http://edwards.yale.edu/

Primary Source: Samsom Occam, I Believe it is Because I am a Poor Indian: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5788

Primary Sources: Sermons of George Whitefield: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.toc.html

Enslavement

Interactive Exhibit: Slavery and the Making of America: https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/index.html

Videos: The Old Corruption, Timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uas4hGFXFZM and Gold, Silver, and Slaves, Timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7OqaMkymWI

Primary & Secondary Sources: Africans in America, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/index.html

Primary Sources & Interactive Exhibit: The Abolition Project: http://abolition.e2bn.org/index.php

Primary Sources: The Stono Rebellion, Teaching American History in South Carolina: https://wwwdigital.scetv.org/teachingAmerhistory/lessons/documents/StonoRebellion.html

Primary Sources: Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html

Primary Source: Ottobah Cuguano, Narrative of the Enslavement: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/neh/cugoano/menu.html

Primary Source: Stowage of the British Slave Ship ‘Brookes’ under the Regulated Slave Trade, Act of 1788:https://www.abolitionseminar.org/brooks/

Warfare

Podcast: The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761, Ben Franklin’s World series: https://wwwbenfranklinsworld.com/episode-056-daniel-j-tortora-the-anglo-cherokee-war-1759-1761/.
Part of the Ben Franklin’s World series: https://wwwbenfranklinsworld.com/

Podcast: The French and Indian War: The Fall of New France: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/andrew-cotter/iroquois-history-and-legends/e/32-the-french-and-indian-war-vii-the-fall-of-new-france-50518397 Part of the Iroquois History and Legends series: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/iroquois-history-and-legends

Interactive Map: French and Indian War Commemoration, War For Empire: http://www.warforempire.org/visit/interactive_map.aspx

Primary Source: A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent theretohttps://www.loc.gov/item/2006629305/

Primary Source: Pontiac, Advice from the Master of Life: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=659

Primary Source: A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson : containing an account of her sufferings during four years with the Indians and French: http://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.39311/5?r=0&s=1

Chapter 3: The Revolution that made a Republic


Prelude to Revolution

Primary Source: The Royal Proclamation - October 7, 1763: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/proc1763.asp

Interactive Exhibit: Stamp Act: The Origins, Implementation and Consequences: http://www.stamp-act-history.com/

Primary Sources: American Revolution Collection, British Library: https://www.bl.uk/the-american-revolution

Primary Source: James Otis, Rights of British Colonies Asserted: https://wwwoll.libertyfund.org/pages/1763-otis-rights-of-british-colonies-asserted-pamphlet

Podcast: Benjamin Franklin, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckmg8

Podcast: Washington and the American Revolution, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y28v

Article: Why Did George Washington Join the Revolution?, Mount Vernon Museum: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/why-did-george-washington-join-the-revolution/ Part of Mount Vernon Museum interactive web resources: https://www.mountvernon.org/

Interactive Exhibit: The Freedom Trail (Boston) Sites: https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/trail-sites

Primary Source: A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England: https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=386&mode=large&img_step=1&&pid=3&ft=Object%20of%20the%20Month&nodesc=1 part of the Massachusetts Historical Society digital archive of primary sources: https://www.masshist.org/collections/online

Interactive Exhibit: The Boston Massacre Historical Society: http://www.bostonmassacre.net/index.html

Primary Source: George Hewes, A retrospect of the Boston tea-party: https://wwwarchive.org/details/retrospectofbost00hawk

Primary Source: Thomas Paine, Common Sense: https://wwwarchive.org/details/commonsense00painrich

The American Revolution

Podcast Series: The American Revolution Podcast: https://wwwpod.amrevpodcast.com/

Primary Source: Elizabeth Ellet, The women of the American Revolution: https://wwwarchive.org/details/womenofamerican00elle/page/n8/mode/2up

Primary Source: The Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration

Video: Would You Have Joined the American Revolution?, PBS, Origin of Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqVKV465CM&t=2s

Interactive Exhibit: Revolutionary War, American Battlefield Trust: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war

Primary Sources: Black Loyalist Documents, National Archives (U.K.): https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/work_community/loyalists.htm

Interactive Exhibit: Liberty to Slaves: The Black Response, NCpedia: https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/liberty-slaves-black Part of North Carolina History Online Resource: https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/anchor

Article: Woody Holton, The History of the Stamp Act Shows How Indians Led to the American Revolution, National Endowment for the Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/julyaugust/feature/the-history-the-stamp-act-shows-how-indians-led-the-american-revo

Primary Source: Journals of the Continental Congress - Speech to the Six Nations: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/contcong_07-13-75.asp

Primary Source: Treaty of Paris, 1783: https://www2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/ar/14313.htm

Chapter 4: A Union and a Nation


The Constitution and Early Political Divisions

Primary Sources: The American Constitution - A Documentary Record, Yale Law School, including Constitutional Convention papers and proposals: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/constpap.asp

Constitutional Compromises, PBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCmuftyj8A

Primary Sources: The Federalist Papers: https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers

Primary Sources: Founders Online: Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States, National Archives: https://wwwfounders.archives.gov/

Primary Sources: Benjamin Franklin Papers, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/benjamin-franklin-papers/about-this-collection/

Primary Sources: Thomas Jefferson Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society collection: https://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/

Primary Sources: Alexander Hamilton, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/alexander-hamilton/

Interactive Exhibit: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello: https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/

Video: West Wing Cabinet Battle, Cast of Hamilton, the musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mYfsNFtGI

Common Folk and the New Republic

Interactive Exhibit: Shay’s Rebellion and the Making of a Nation: http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/index.html

Interactive Exhibit: The Whiskey Rebellion: An Interactive Mapping Project: http://maptherebellion.com/

Interactive Exhibit: Paul Sivitz and Billy G. Smith, Philadelphia and its People in Maps: https://wwwphiladelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/philadelphia-and-its-people-in-maps-the-1790s/#4095

Primary Sources: American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/travels-in-america-1750-to-1920/about-this-collection

Race, Slavery, and the New Republic

Video: Slavery and the Constitution, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-and-constitution-w8rol7/
Primary Sources: Thomas Jefferson’s Racism, 1788: https://wwwcourses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory1os/chapter/primary-source-thomas-jeffersons-racism-1788/

Primary Sources: Jefferson on Race and Slavery: http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/jefferson/race/ Part of The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy online resources: http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/jefferson/

Primary Sources collection: Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic: http://librarycompany.org/blackfounders/section7.htm

Primary Sources: Gabriel’s Rebellion, Library of Virginia collection: https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/DeathLiberty/gabriel/index.htm

Podcast: The Haitian Revolution, 15 Minute History series: https://www15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-11-the-haitian-revolution/

Primary Source: Transcript of a letter from Alexander McGillivray to Governor Zéspedes: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1700 Part of Alabama Department of Archives and History collections: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/

Primary Source: The Treaty of Greenville: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/greenvil.asp

Chapter 5: Toward Nationhood: The Growth of the White Republic


Primary Sources: Cotton Gin and the Expansion of Slavery: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/cotton-gin-and-the-expansion-of-slavery Part of the Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/

Primary Source: Monroe Doctrine: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=23

Interactive Exhibit: Market Revolution, Smithsonian Institution: https://wwwamhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/market-revolution/

Primary Sources: History of the Erie Canal: https://www.eriecanal.org/history.html

War of 1812 & The Rise of Jackson

Primary Sources: America at War, Louisiana Digital Library Collection: https://wwwlouisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/tahil-aaw:collection

Podcast: The War of 1812, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q95s0

Podcast: BREAKING: The British Burn Washington . . . 2 Centuries Ago, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342184458/breaking-british-burn-washington-2-centuries-ago

Interactive Exhibit: Andrew Jackson Timeline, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-jackson-papers/articles-and-essays/andrew-jackson-timeline-1767-1845/

Primary Sources: Jacksonian Democracy? collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/jacksonian-democracy Part of the Digital Public Library of America collections: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets

Primary Sources: The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Yale Law School collection: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/jackpap.asp

Westward Expansion

Podcast Series: Louisiana Purchase series, University of New Orleans: https://wwwpodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/louisiana-purchase-audio/id489560056

Primary Sources: Westward Expansion, Smithsonian American Art Museum interactive exhibits: https://wwwamericanexperience.si.edu/historical-eras/expansion/

Interactive Exhibit: Westward Expansion, 1790-1850, PBS: http://d3tt741pwxqwm0.cloudfront.net/WGBH/rttt12/rttt12_int_westexp/index.html

Indian Removal

Primary Source: Tecumseh’s Speech to the Osages, 1809: https://wwwen.wikisource.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s_Speech_to_the_Osages

Primary Source: A Speech by Tecumseh, 1811: http://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/tcthorne/Hist15/tecumseh1811.html

Primary Sources: Indian Removal Act, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwguides.loc.gov/indian-removal-act

Interactive Maps: Trail of Tears Maps, National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/maps.htm

Video: Georgia Stories: The Trail of Tears, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/georgia-stories-trail-tears/

Video: Trail of Tears PBS Learning Media: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/akh10.socst.ush.exp.trail/trail-of-tears/#.XlRWapX7Spo

Primary Sources: Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears, collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/cherokee-removal-and-the-trail-of-tears

Primary Source: Letter from Chief John Ross: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3083t.html
Part of the Africans in America PBS Resource Bank: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html

Interactive Map: Interactive Map Shows the Seizure of Over 1.5 Billion Acres of Native American Land Between 1776 and 1887, Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/interactive-map-shows-the-seizure-of-over-1-5-billion-acres-of-native-american-land-between-1776-and-1887.html

Chapter 6: Problems of Slavery, Freedom and Sectionalism in the Antebellum U.S.


Democracy and Society

Primary Sources: Missouri Compromise, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwguides.loc.gov/missouri-compromise

Podcast: Tocqueville: Democracy in America, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vyw0x

Primary Source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: https://wwwarchive.org/details/democracyiname01tocq/page/n8/mode/2up

Podcast: Andrew Jackson’s Second Term and Legacy, The American History Podcast series: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-american-history-podcast/e/54043911

Podcast: Manifest Destiny and the Election of 1844: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-american-history-podcast/e/59247304

Primary Sources: Resources: The Second Great Awakening, Teach US History collection: http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/resources

Video Series: God In America, PBS: https://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view/

Podcast: The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (1848), The Bitchery of History series: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/umpboh/episodes/2019-03-30T01_11_18-07_00

Primary Sources: The Call for Suffrage at the Seneca Falls Meeting, National Women’s History Museum collection: http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/seneca-falls-meeting Part of the National Women’s History Museum primary sources collections: http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/primary-documents-1

Resistance and Abolitionism

Primary Source: David Walker, Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/menu.html

Primary Sources: The Nat Turner Project, online collection: https://www.natturnerproject.org/

Primary Source: Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat Turner: https://wwwarchive.org/details/confessionsofnat00turn

Podcast: Frederick Douglass, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb0kc

Primary Sources: Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-papers/about-this-collection/

Primary Source: Angelina Emily Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegat.html

Interactive Exhibit & Archive: American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists: http://www.americanabolitionists.com/

Primary Sources: North American Slave Narratives, collection: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/neh/ Part of the Documenting the American South collection: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/

Podcast: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c1bp

Prelude to Civil War

Primary Sources: The Nation Moves Towards War, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-approach/

Primary Sources: Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/slaves-and-the-courts-from-1740-to-1860/about-this-collection/

Primary Sources: Dred Scott v. Sandford, Library of Congress Web Guide: https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/dredscott.html

Video: Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58, Yale University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFlkEonxhs

Video: Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, Kansas City Public Library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WseFu6z_9DI

Primary Sources: Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/lincoln/

Primary Sources: The Decision to Secede and Establish the Confederacy, American Historical Association collection: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/the-decision-to-secede-and-establish-the-confederacy-a-selection-of-primary-sources

Chapter 7: Civil War and the Wars of Reconstruction


Fighting the War

Videos, Resources, Primary Sources: The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns, PBS Learning Media: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/film/the-civil-war/

Podcast Series: Uncivil, Gimlet media: https://wwwgimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil/episodes

Articles: A special collection of articles and essays from The Atlantic to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc/2012/02/

Podcast: The Gettysburg Address, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c2w5j

Interactive Exhibit & Primary Sources: Civil War on the Western Border, Kansas City Public Library: https://wwwcivilwaronthewesternborder.org/

Primary Sources: Secession Era Editorials Project, Furman University: http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py

Primary Sources: Harper’s Weekly Original Civil War Newspapers: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/the-civil-war.htm

Primary Sources: Letters Home from the Civil War, Civil War Archive: http://www.civilwararchive.com/LETTERS/letters.htm

Primary Sources: Civil War Soldiers’ Portraits, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/liljenquist-civil-war-photos/

Primary Sources: Civil War Music, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-war-music/

Videos: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers in Sherman's March, C-Span: https://www.c-span.org/video/?429297-3/confederate-women-union-soldiers-shermans-march

Reconstruction

Resources & Primary Sources: Andrew Johnson: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress Web Guides: https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/ajohnson/memory.html

Primary Sources: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/the-freedmen-s-bureau Part of the Digital Public Library of America collections: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets

Podcast: Freedmen’s Bureau, NPR: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1119730

Video: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Part ofThe Civil War and Reconstruction, 1865-1890, Columbia University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJYebcpA10

Video: Land, Labor, and the Black Codes, Part ofThe Civil War and Reconstruction, 1865-1890, Columbia University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwVJQ94Cago

Primary Sources: Primary Documents in American History: Civil War and Reconstruction: https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/civilwarrecon.html Including text of 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments

Video: Civil Liberties & Citizenship: The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Oregon State University: https://wwwliberalarts.oregonstate.edu/video/civil-liberties-citizenship-13th-14th-and-15th-amendments-pt3

Podcast: 'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The Constitution, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761551835/second-founding-examines-how-reconstruction-remade-the-constitution

Podcast: Deconstructing The Myths Of Reconstruction, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679254978/deconstructing-the-myths-of-reconstruction

Primary Sources: African American Perspectives, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/about-this-collection/

Resources & Primary Sources: Freedmen & Southern Society Project, University of Maryland: http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/

Podcast: The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877" https://wwwpodcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9pdHVuZXN1Lml0dW5lcy5hcHBsZS5jb20vZmVlZC9pZDM0MTY1MDczMA&episode=MjgyMTc2NzY2MA&ved=0CAYQzsICahcKEwiQyMPdge3nAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBQ&hl=en-GB Part of The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 podcast series: https://wwwpodcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9pdHVuZXN1Lml0dW5lcy5hcHBsZS5jb20vZmVlZC9pZDM0MTY1MDczMA&ved=0CAAQ4aUDahcKEwiQyMPdge3nAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCQ&hl=en-GB

Chapter 8: Western Conquest, White Supremacy and the Rise of a Superpower


Westward Expansion and Indian Removal

Video: Keepers of the Land, PBS Montana: https://www.pbs.org/video/montanapbs-presents-keepers-land/

Video: Nebraska Stories: Free Land!, PBS Nebraska: https://www.pbs.org/video/nebraska-stories-free-land/

Primary Sources: Sioux Treaty of 1868, National Archives collection: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty#documents

Podcast: Custer’s Last Stand, BBC In Our Time series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112xfd

Primary Sources: Native Americans: Little Big Horn, Christopher Newport University: https://wwwcnu.libguides.com/c.php?g=23203&p=137848

Primary Sources: The Wounded Knee Massacre, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/the-wounded-knee-massacre Part of Digital Public Library of America: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/

Podcast: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p033jtwr

Primary Source: Condition of the Indian Tribes, March 3, 1865: https://wwwquod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ABB3022.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Article: Gilbert King, “Where the Buffalo no Longer Roamed”, Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-the-buffalo-no-longer-roamed-3067904/

Primary Sources: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection, University of Washington: https://wwwcontent.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/

Immigration

Primary Sources: Immigration: Challenges for New Americans, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/immigration/

Podcast: To Be A Citizen, BackStory series, Yale University, including discussion of Mexican and Chinese immigration in the C19th: https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/to-be-a-citizen/

Primary Source: The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, National Archives collection: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47

Primary Sources: Immigration and Americanization, 1880-1930, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/immigration-and-americanization-1880-1930 Part of Digital Public Library of America collections: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets

Primary Sources: Ellis Island, National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/elis/learn/education/primary-sources-for-your-classroom.htm

Industrialisation and Protest

Primary Sources: Development of the Industrial United States, Digital Public Library of American collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets?timePeriod=the-development-of-the-industrial-united-states-1870-1900

Primary Source: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, National Archives collection: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=51

Podcast: The Haymarket Riot Remembered, NPR: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5369420

Primary Sources: The Great Railroad Strike, University of Nebraska, Lincoln collection: http://railroads.unl.edu/topics/strike.php

Podcast: The Pullman Strike, part of the Thoroughbred Teamsters series: https://wwwanchor.fm/j-rich4/episodes/E45--The-Pullman-Strike-e8l5j7

Podcast Series, The Robber Barons, BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080kw3g/episodes/player

Podcast: William Jennings Bryan: An Electrifying Orator, NPR: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95691800

Video: Cross of Gold Speech, C-Span: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4458191/cross-gold-speech

Primary Sources: The Thomas E. Watson Papers, University of North Carolina collection: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/watson/aboutwatson.php

Segregation and Civil Rights

Podcast: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation, Public Radio Tulsa: https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/story-plessy-v-ferguson-and-americas-journey-slavery-segregation-encore

Primary Sources: Jim Crow and Segregation, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-rights/

Primary Sources: WARNING! DISTURBING IMAGES: Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America: https://wwwwithoutsanctuary.org/

Primary Source: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, Ida B. Wells: https://wwwarchive.org/details/southernhorrors14975gut

Primary Source: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, W.E.B. DuBois: https://wwwarchive.org/details/philadelphianegr001901mbp/page/n3/mode/2up

Primary Source: The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois: https://wwwarchive.org/details/soulsblackfolke01boisgoog/page/n7/mode/2up

Chapter 9: The Rise of Imperial America 1898-1929


Spanish-American War

Primary Sources: Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/fake-news-in-the-1890s-yellow-journalism Part of the Digital Public Library of America: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets

Podcast: The Spanish-American War and the Birth of U.S. Imperialism, part of the Life in the Past Lane series: http://inthepastlane.com/episode-026/

Primary Sources: Theodore Roosevelt: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress Web Guides: https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/presidents/troosevelt/memory.html

Video: What Was the Platt Amendment?, Brown University: https://www.choices.edu/video/what-was-the-platt-amendment/

Primary Sources: The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/spanish-american-war-in-motion-pictures/about-this-collection/

Video: A Study in Uncertainty: The Philippine War, West Point Center for Oral History: http://www.westpointcoh.org/interviews/a-study-in-uncertainty-an-oral-history-of-the-philippine-war

Primary Sources: American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War, History Matters, George Mason University collection: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/58/

Primary Source: Edward A. Johnson, History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11102/11102-h/11102-h.htm

Roosevelt Corollary & Panama Canal

Primary Source: Transcript of Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1905, National Archives collection: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=56&page=transcript

Video: Documents in Detail: Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Teaching American History series: https://wwwteachingamericanhistory.org/programs/webinars/documents-in-detail/documents-in-detail-roosevelt-corollary-to-the-monroe-doctrine/

Video: The Story of the Panama Canal, Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/mp76000330/
Primary Sources: The Panama Canal, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/the-panama-canal Part of the Digital Public Library of America archive: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets

Primary Sources: Letters from Isthmian Canal Construction Workers, Digital Library of the Caribbean collection: https://wwwdloc.com/AA00016037/00109/allvolumes

World War One

Interactive Timeline & Primary Sources: World War I Timeline, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/articles-and-essays/a-world-at-war/timeline-1914-1921/ Part of the Stars and Stripes: The American Soldier’s Newspaper collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/

Podcast Series: The United States in World War I, Oxford University Press: https://wwwblog.oup.com/2017/07/united-states-world-war-one-history-podcast/

Maps: 40 Maps that Explain World War I, Vox, August 2014: https://www.vox.com/a/world-war-i-maps

Primary Sources: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania, Newspapers.com collection: https://www.newspapers.com/topics/world-war1/sinking-of-the-rms-lusitania/

Primary Source & Video: The Zimmerman Telegram, National World War One Museum and Memorial: https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/centennial-commemoration/us-enters-war/zimmermann-telegram

Video: African American Soldiers During World War I, C-Span: https://www.c-span.org/video/?425541-5/african-american-soldiers-world-war

Primary Sources: Experiencing War: World War One, The Great War, Library of Congress collection: https://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-wwi.html

Primary Sources & Interactive Exhibit: World War One, Smithsonian Learning Lab: https://wwwlearninglab.si.edu/collections/national-history-day-world-war-i/McGqACRm8fNgCvda#r

Primary Sources: National World War One Museum and Memorial Archive: https://wwwtheworldwar.pastperfectonline.com/archive

Chapter 10: State-building in the United States c.1900-1929


Socioeconomic Issues and Industry

Primary Source: Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, 1890: https://wwwarchive.org/details/howotherhalfliv00riisgoog/page/n9/mode/2up

Primary Source: Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes, 1911: https://wwwarchive.org/details/twentyyearsathul00inadda

Exhibit & Primary Sources: Public Health in the Progressive Era, Oregon Health & Science University collection: https://wwwwww.ohsu.edu/historical-collections-archives/public-health-progressive-era

Podcast: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, American History Tellers series: https://wwwplayer.fm/series/american-history-tellers/the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-wildcat-1

Video: 1909 New York Shirtwaist Workers Strike, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex24.socst.ush.triangle/1909-ny-shirtwaist-workers-strike/#.XlWTbyH7Spo

Primary Source Video: Video Clips from Henry Ford’s Motion Picture Department, National Archives: https://wwweducation.blogs.archives.gov/2015/04/21/ford-films/

Interactive Exhibit: Henry Ford 1920, ArcGIS StoryMap: https://wwwwww.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=d877178f2cca42aba9d1c39b4c32b5d0

Primary Sources: Topics in Chronicling America - Palmer Raids, Library of Congress newspaper collection: https://wwwwww.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/palmer.html

Primary Sources: “Reds” vs. “Americans, Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s, National Humanities Center collection: http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text8/text8.htm

Prohibition & The Jazz Age

Video: Preview: Prohibition, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/video/prohibition-pbs-previews-prohibition/

Video: A Nation of Drunkards, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/video/prohibition-roots-of-prohibition-a-nation-of-drunkards/

Music: Speakeasies, Flappers, Red Hot Jazz: Music of the Prohibition, Stanford Libraries collection: https://wwwriverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/speakeasies-flappers-red-hot-jazz-music-prohibition Part of the Jim Cullum Riverwalk Jazz Collection: https://wwwriverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/home

Music: 1920s Jazz Collection: https://wwwarchive.org/details/Free_20s_Jazz_Collection/Ambassadors_Me_And_The_Man_In_The_Moon.ogg

Primary Sources: The Volstead Act, National Archives Collection: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act#documents

Podcast: Prohibition – Down and Out, American History Tellers: https://wwwpodcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2FtZXJpY2FuLWhpc3RvcnktdGVsbGVycw&episode=Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL1N3ZGo1TjhIeXdYQzhQMFRTUFBTRVFuWnBaRU14SWtRWGhMVjJwS01EaW8&hl=en-GB&ved=2ahUKEwji0--m4O3nAhXIQEEAHS5DDyUQjrkEegQICxAI&ep=6

Citizenship

Primary Sources: Immigration Quotas 1920-1939, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/browse-by-topic/immigration-since-1840/immigration-quotas-1920-1939

Primary Source: Immigration Restriction Act, 1924: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1116

Primary Sources: Immigrants in the Progressive Era, Library of Congress collection: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/immigrnt/

Primary Sources: Indian Citizenship Act, 1924: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=602

Racial Politics

Podcast and Interactive Exhibit: Chicago’s Red Summer, WBEX Radio Chicago: https://wwwinteractive.wbez.org/curiouscity/race-riots-1919/

Interactive Map: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930: http://digitalharlem.org/

Interactive Map Exhibit: Mapping the Great Migration, University of Washington: https://wwwdepts.washington.edu/moving1/map_black_migration.shtml Part of the America’s Great Migrations Project: http://depts.washington.edu/moving1/

Primary Sources: Alan Locke, The New Negro: An Interpretation, 1925: https://wwwarchive.org/details/newnegrointerpre00unse/page/n7/mode/2up

Podcast: By Definition: The Racial Integrity Act of 1924, With Good Reason series, Virginia Humanities:  https://wwwwww.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/by-definition-the-racial-integrity-act-of-1924/

Primary Sources: Racial Integrity Act Documents, Library of Virginia collection: https://wwwlva.omeka.net/items/show/128

Video: Ku Klux Klan March in Washington D.C.: https://wwwteachrock.org/video/ku-klux-klan-march-in-washington-dc-1928/

Primary Sources: The Ku Klux Klan March on Washington, All That’s Interesting: https://wwwallthatsinteresting.com/ku-klux-klan-march-on-washington

Chapter 11: Depression and new Deal America


Crash & Depression

Podcast: The Wall Street Crash, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00z9sqt

Podcast: The Wall Street Crash of 1929, BBC My Century series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p033xd1k

Podcast: The Great Depression, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00jf3z1

Primary Sources & Exhibit: The Great Depression 1929-1939, University of California collection: https://wwwcalisphere.org/exhibitions/t6/great-depression/

Primary Sources: The Great Depression and World War II, Digital Public Library of America collections: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tags=the-great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945&timePeriod=the-great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945

Podcast Series: American Capitalism – A History: https://wwwwww.stitcher.com/podcast/american-capitalism-a-history

Housing & Migration

Primary Sources: Hoovervilles in Seattle, Seattle Municipal Archives collection: http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/digital-document-libraries/hoovervilles-in-seattle

Article: The Hobo Hieroglyphs: Their Secret Symbols Explained: https://wwwwww.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25174860/hobo-code/

Video: The Scottsboro Boys: A powerful 8-minute summary, University High School Charter:  https://wwwuniversitywildcats.edlioschool.com/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=137705

Primary Source: Negro housing: report of the Committee on Negro Housing, 1932: http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4304461

Interactive Exhibit & Primary Sources: The Dust Bowl, PBS Film: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/

Primary Sources: Dorothea Lange Archive, Library of Congress image collection (searchable database): https://wwwwww.loc.gov/search/?fa=contributor:lange,+dorothea

Music: Woody Guthrie Songs: https://wwwarchive.org/details/WoodyGuthrieSongs/DustBowlBlues.mp3

The New Deal

Primary Sources: The New Deal, Digital Public Library of America collection: https://wwwdp.la/primary-source-sets/the-new-deal

Podcast: The New Deal, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p018st4j

Interactive Exhibit & Maps: The Living New Deal: https://wwwlivingnewdeal.org/

Primary Sources: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwwww.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

Primary Sources: Federal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwwww.loc.gov/collections/federal-theatre-project-1935-to-1939/about-this-collection/

Primary Sources: Oral History of the Tennessee Valley Authority: https://wwwarchive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Atexts+AND+collection%3Auniversityofmemphislibraries+AND+subject%3A%22Tennessee+Valley+Authority+--+History%22&page=2

Video: The TVA at Work, National Archives: https://wwwcatalog.archives.gov/id/11648

Audio Primary Source: FDR’s Fireside Chat: The WPA and Social Security, American Radioworks: http://www.americanradioworks.org/fdr-the-wpa-and-social-security/

Primary Sources, FDR’s Statements on Social Security, Social Security Administration collection: https://wwwwww.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html

Primary Sources: Oral Histories of the New Deal, Living New Deal: https://wwwlivingnewdeal.org/oral-histories/

Chapter 12: From Neutrality to War


International Relations: China, Spain, the Holocaust

Primary Videos: The Rape of Nanking, British Pathe and Reuters Historical Collection: https://wwwwww.britishpathe.com/workspaces/df699ffd537d4e0c74710ad015dfd64d/CuNshcop

Video: The Rape of Nanking, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?95452-1/the-rape-nanking

Primary Video Source: World Faces Crisis As Japan And China Clash In Far East, Pathe News: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=AccRhQFNbbU

Primary Sources: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Oral Histories, NYU Libraries: http://digitaltamiment.hosting.nyu.edu/s/albafilms/page/welcome

Podcast: Spanish Civil War Volunteers Revisit Battlegrounds, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6221378

Interactive Exhibit: Americans and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://wwwexhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main Part of the United States

Holocaust Memorial Museum collections: https://wwwwww.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions

Domestic Politics and the Prelude to War

Primary Sources: Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/

Video: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Presidency, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?424834-3/franklin-delano-roosevelts-presidency

Primary Source: FDR’s Speech on the Neutrality Act, National Archives: https://wwwwww.docsteach.org/documents/document/fdr-neutrality-act

Primary Source: Neutrality Act of 1936, Digital History: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=4059

Article: The Great Debate, The National WWII Museum: https://wwwwww.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

Podcast: 'America First': From Charles Lindbergh To President Trump, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/06/513240634/america-first-from-charles-lindbergh-to-president-trump

Video: History Lessons: The America First Committee Forms, Council on Foreign Relations: https://wwwwww.cfr.org/blog/history-lessons-america-first-committee-forms

Primary Video: FDR’s Arsenal of Democracy Speech, American Rhetoric: https://wwwamericanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrarsenalofdemocracy.html

Video: FDR: The Lend-Lease Act, PBS Learning Media: https://wwwwww.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.dww.lendlease/fdr-the-lend-lease-act/

Article: How Did the Idea of Lend-Lease Get Started? And Why?, American Historical Association: https://wwwwww.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-13-how-shall-lend-lease-accounts-be-settled-(1945)/how-did-the-idea-of-lend-lease-get-started-and-why

Primary Source: Transcription of Lend-Lease Act, National Archives: https://wwwwww.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=71&page=transcript

Primary Sources: Churchill and the Great Republic: World War II, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwwww.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/2_07_00.html

America in the War

Interactive Exhibit: World War II Timeline Experience, American Battle Monuments Commission:https://wwwwww.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/interactive/interactive_files/WW2/index.html

Maps: 42 Maps that Explain World War II, Vox: https://wwwwww.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii

Videos: World War II Newsreels, Periscope Films: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqqqZrD37h5aphoS_vQtha80Tqq94YTz

Primary Videos: War Collections, British Pathe and Reuters Historical Collection: https://wwwwww.britishpathe.com/pages/collections/#WarCollections

Primary Sources: A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents 1941-1949, Yale Law School: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/decade.asp

Article: Why Did Japan Choose War? American Historical Association: https://wwwwww.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/em-15-what-shall-be-done-about-japan-after-victory-(1945)/why-did-japan-choose-war

Interactive Exhibit: Pacific Battles, National Park Service: https://wwwwww.nps.gov/valr/learn/historyculture/pacific-battles.htm

Primary Sources: Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings Before the Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/invest.html

Primary Video: An Original Newsreel About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor: https://wwwwww.theatlantic.com/video/index/249620/an-original-newsreel-about-the-bombing-of-pearl-harbor/

Video: The Manhattan Project, National World War II Museum: https://wwwwww.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/distance-learning/k-12-distance-learning/electronic-field-trips/manhattan-project

Primary Sources: Voices of the Manhattan Project, Oral Histories: https://wwwwww.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories

Article and Primary Source: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://wwwwww.atomicheritage.org/history/survivors-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

Primary Sources: Atomic Bombs, Japan, National World War II Museum photography collection (searchable database): https://wwwwww.ww2online.org/search-page?f%5B0%5D=field_tgm%3AAtomic%20bombs--American--Japan

Experiences in the Services and on the Homefront

Podcast Series: World War Two Collection, BBC Witness History: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02prmgr/episodes/downloads

Podcast Series: The History of World War II Podcast: https://wwwworldwariipodcast.net/

Primary Sources: World War II, The African American Experience in World War Two, Oral Histories, University of Kansas: https://wwwwwii.lib.ku.edu/

Primary Sources: World War II: Oral Histories, National Park Service: https://wwwwww.nps.gov/subjects/worldwarii/oralhistories.htm

Primary Sources: America at the Homefront, National Archives at Boston collection: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/boston/exhibits/homefront

Primary Sources: Women Veterans Historical Project: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/WVHP/

Podcast: Japanese Internment, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00nnkrl

Podcast Series: Order 9066, (Japanese internment) Smithsonian National Museum of American History: https://wwwwww.apmreports.org/order-9066

Video: How Anti-Mexican Racism in L.A. Caused the Zoot Suit Riots, History Channel: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtThBTf0sI

Video: Wartime Race Riots, American Veterans Center: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=PixUaYTO_Dc

Primary Sources: The Civil Rights Act 1964: World War II and Post-War, Library of Congress collection: https://wwwwww.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/world-war-ii-and-post-war.html

Chapter 13: Cold War America, 1945-1954


World War to Cold War

Video: The Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?c4707405/tehran-yalta-potsdam-conferences

Primary Video: Big Three Conference At Yalta Aka Big Three Meeting, British Pathe: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=1onjIjDD_1M

VOnline Exhibition: History of the Marshall Plan, George C. Marshall Foundation: https://wwwwww.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/the-marshall-plan/history-marshall-plan/

Primary Source: George Kennan’s Long Telegram, Teaching American History: https://wwwteachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-long-telegram/

Video: Interview: Charles Devonshire, Berlin Airlift Pilot, Air Mobility Command Museum: https://wwwamcmuseum.org/history/interview-charles-devonshire-berlin-airlift-pilot/

Primary Video: The Berlin Airlift, NATO: https://wwwwww.nato.int/cps/fr/natohq/declassified_156163.htm

Primary Video: Berlin Airlift, National Archives (U.K.): https://wwwwww.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_ba.htm

Primary Sources: The Development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Harry S Truman Library and Museum: https://wwwwww.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/development-of-north-atlantic-treaty-organization-nato

Podcast: A Short History of NATO, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/2018/07/14/629058526/a-short-history-of-nato

Primary Source: NATO Treaty, April 4, 1949: https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/nato.asp

Video: Truman: The Beginning of the Cold War, PBS Learning Media: https://wwwwww.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.now.coldwar/the-beginning-of-the-cold-war/#.XlcBXiH7Spo

Interactive Exhibit: The Truman Doctrine, CVCE: https://wwwwww.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-content/-/unit/55c09dcc-a9f2-45e9-b240-eaef64452cae/b2a7bc2f-f999-4d0f-8b20-22c9e3f46e15/Resources

Primary Video: Russia's Atomic Explosion Rocks Western World, British Pathe and Reuters Historical Collection: https://wwwwww.britishpathe.com/video/russias-atomic-explosion-rocks-western-world-uno

The Korean War

Primary Sources: Interview Archive, Korean War Legacy Foundation: https://wwwkoreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/

Video: Unforgettable: The Korean War, Arizona Public Media: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=hi6UOey-YAw

Primary Sources: Korean War, 1950-1953, Wilson Center Digital Archive: https://wwwdigitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/50/korean-war-1950-1953

Podcast: The Korean War, BBC Not So Long Ago: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p033jvgd

Primary Sources: The Korean War, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/korean-war.html

McCarthyism and the Red Scare

Primary Sources: Truman’s Loyalty Program, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum exhibition: https://wwwwww.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/trumans-loyalty-program

Article & Primary Sources: Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist, Prologue Magazine, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/fall/agloso.html

Primary Source: Executive Order 9835, Teaching American History: https://wwwteachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/executive-order-9835/

Primary Sources: McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Miller Center collection: https://wwwmillercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/age-of-eisenhower/mcarthyism-red-scare

Podcast: The McCarthy Era, BBC Witness History: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03rpf52

Primary Sources: Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/education/lessons/mccarthy-telegram

Interactive Exhibit: The HUAC and the Red Scare, ArcGIS Story Map: https://wwwwww.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=b7b0209e617f4d69b87d4d9f3222ea50

Video: The Story Behind the Hollywood Blacklist, Television Academy Foundation: https://wwwinterviews.televisionacademy.com/news/the-house-un-american-activities-committee-hearings-and-the-hollywood-blacklist

Primary Source: Employment of Homosexuals and other Sexual Perverts in Government, Senate Committee Report: https://wwwmattachinesocietywashingtondc.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/document141.pdf

Labour Relations

Video: Taft-Hartley Act, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?89234-1/taft-hartley-act

Video: World War II and the Taft-Hartley Labor Act: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?c4748774/world-war-ii-taft-hartley-act

Chapter 14: Prosperity and Crisis in the 1950s


Eisenhower & The Cold War

Article: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Foreign Affairs, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/president/eisenhower/foreign-affairs Part of the Miller Center Eisenhower Presidency Exhibit: https://wwwmillercenter.org/president/eisenhower

Video: Dwight D Eisenhower and the Cold War, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?407529-1/dwight-d-eisenhower-cold-war

Primary Source: Korean War Armistice Agreement, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=727

Primary Video: Korean Truce Signed, British Pathe: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=MxWszWBARd0

Primary Sources: The Korean War, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home: https://wwwwww.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/korean-war

Primary Source: John Foster Dulles, Massive Retaliation Speech, Nuclear Files: http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/cold-war/strategy/article-dulles-retaliation_1954-01-12.htm

Interactive Exhibit: Brinkmanship, ArcGIS Story Map: https://wwwwww.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=41f5134e873b4bc4852aa21e804f30a0

Article: Sputnik’s Impact on America, NOVA: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/sputnik-impact-on-america/

The Interstate Highway System

Primary Sources: History of the Interstate Highway System, Federal Highway Administration: https://wwwwww.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm

Map: Map of National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, 1958, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center: https://wwwwww.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/map-national-system-interstate-and-defense-highways-1958

Primary Video: 1950s Interstate Highways Promo Film: Periscope Films: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrqUHF5bH8

Popular Culture of the 1950s

Primary Sources: The Beat Movement: Poetry and Broadsides, USU Digital History Collections: https://wwwdigital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/Beat

Primary Sources & Interactive Exhibit: Book One: Birth of Rock, Teach Rock: https://wwwteachrock.org/book/birth-of-rock/

Music: 1950s Classic Hits, The Internet Archive: https://wwwarchive.org/details/1950sClassicHits

Videos: Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZm7EOamWk & https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=COFHGFZxtnY

Podcast Series: The Eisenhower Hour, NPR (a nostalgic 1950s music and culture show): https://wwwwww.npr.org/podcasts/620120373/the-eisenhower-hour

Primary Video: It’s the Age of the Teenager, British Pathe Archive: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxsgoI74ss

Primary Sources: ‘The Luckiest Generation’: Teenagers in the ’50s, Life.com: https://wwwwww.life.com/history/the-luckiest-generation-life-with-teenagers-in-1950s-america/

Article: Mrs America: Women’s Roles in the 1950s: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-mrs-america-womens-roles-1950s/

Civil Rights Movement

Video: Brown Vs Board of Education Documentary Clip, PBS: https://wwwwww.americanswhotellthetruth.org/resources/brown-v-board-documentary-clip-pbs

Primary Sources: Documents Related to Brown Vs Board of Education, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board

Podcast: Brown Vs Board of Education, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p052h2bs

Video Primary Sources: Oral Histories: Remembering Brown V. Board of Education at 65: https://wwwwww.the74million.org/series/oral-history-brown-v-board/

Podcast: The Back of the Bus, America: Empire of Liberty BBC series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00kslm2

Video: Project C: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, PBS Learning Resources: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/video/project-c-episode-6-montgomery-bus-boycott/

Video: Little Rock Nine Member Looks Back At Integrating White High School In 1957, Megyn Kelly Today: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDLJuLNxMc

Video: Conversation with the Little Rock Nine, The Bush Center: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAO33uLyN4

Primary Sources & Article: Sit-Ins in Greensboro, SNCC Digital Gateway: https://wwwsnccdigital.org/events/sit-ins-greensboro/

Primary Sources: Oral Histories of the American South: Civil Rights Movement, Documenting the American South: https://wwwdocsouth.unc.edu/sohp/civil_rights.html

Primary Sources: Civil Rights History Project, Oral Histories, Library of Congress (searchable database): https://wwwwww.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/?fa=subject:oral+histories&sb=date

Primary Sources: Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University: https://wwwkinginstitute.stanford.edu/

Chapter 15: The Turbulent Sixties


Kennedy & the Cold War

Interactive Video Timeline: The Berlin Wall: A Multimedia History, The-Berlin-Wall.com: https://wwwwww.the-berlin-wall.com/

Podcast: The Building of the Berlin Wall, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00jc529

Podcast: Bay of Pigs Invasion, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00fz83g

Primary Video: Bay of Pigs Invasion Newsreel, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?101118-1/bay-pigs-invasion-newsreel

Interactive Exhibit: The World on the Brink: Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum: https://wwwmicrosites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct16/index.html

Primary Video: Cuban Missile Crisis Newsreel, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?301730-1/cuban-missile-crisis-newsreel

Video: Cuban Missile Crisis, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?464935-1/cuban-missile-crisis

Primary Sources: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, National Security Archive: https://wwwnsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/docs.htm

Primary Sources: The Cuban Missile Crisis, Yale Law School (government memoranda): https://wwwavalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/msc_cubamenu.asp

Podcast: The Cuban Missile Crisis: As Seen from Moscow and Havana, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b039kv61

Podcast: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Governments, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csv26j

Assassination of JFK

Interactive Exhibit & Primary Sources: U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Miller Center collection: https://wwwmillercenter.org/president/kennedy

Primary Video: Universal Newsreel on Kennedy Assassination, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?316050-1/universal-newsreel-kennedy-assassination
Primary Sources: The Warren Commission Report, National Archives collection: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report

Civil Rights Campaigns

Video: Freedom Riders Create Change, PBS Learning Media: https://wwwwww.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fr11.soc.civil.tactics.frchange/freedom-riders-freedom-riders-create-change/#.XlggjCH7Spo

Primary Sources: Freedom Riders Oral Histories: University of Mississippi: https://wwwegrove.olemiss.edu/freeriders/

Primary Sources & Articles: Freedom Rides and Riders: Articles & Documents, Civil Rights Movement Archive: https://wwwwww.crmvet.org/riders/frhome.htm

Primary Sources: Freedom Rides Oral Histories, Library of Congress (searchable database): https://wwwwww.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/?fa=subject:freedom+rides%7Csubject:oral+histories

Article: The March on Washington, NAACP: https://wwwwww.naacp.org/marchonwashington/

Primary Source: I Have A Dream Speech: Full Text: https://wwwwww.naacp.org/i-have-a-dream-speech-full-march-on-washington/

Primary Sources: AN Oral History of the March on Washington, Smithsonian Magazine: https://wwwwww.smithsonianmag.com/history/oral-history-march-washington-180953863/

Primary Video: 1963 March on Washington Newsreel: C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?10928-1/1963-march-washington

Interactive Exhibit: The Birmingham Campaign, PBS: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/birmingham-protests.html

Podcast: How the Civil Rights Movement was Covered in Birmingham, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/18/193128475/how-the-civil-rights-movement-was-covered-in-birmingham

Primary Sources & Exhibits: The Black Panther Party, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/black-panthers

Primary Videos: Black Panther Party Collection, Bay Area Television Archive: https://wwwdiva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/3005

JFK, LBJ & Civil Rights

Primary Audio: Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, 11 June 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: https://wwwwww.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHA/1963/JFKWHA-194-001/JFKWHA-194-001

Article: Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights, Presidential Recordings Digital Edition: https://wwwprde.upress.virginia.edu/content/CivilRights

Podcast: The Politics of Passing 1964’s Civil Rights Act: https://wwwwww.npr.org/2014/04/04/299063588/the-politics-of-passing-1964s-civil-rights-act

Podcast: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p020tdpp

Primary Sources: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Opportunities Commission, National Archives:  https://wwwwww.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act

The Great Society

Primary Video: LBJ’s Great Society Speech, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?153610-1/great-society-speech

Podcast Series: LBJ and the Great Society: https://wwwwww.stitcher.com/podcast/public-radio-international/lbjs-war

Video: Building the Great Society, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?440657-1/building-great-society

Primary Sources: War on Poverty Oral History Project, University of Kentucky Libraries: https://wwwkentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7p5h7bvt40

Primary Source: Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act, The American Presidency Project: https://wwwwww.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-upon-signing-the-economic-opportunity-act

Vietnam War

Interactive Exhibit & Primary Sources: Vietnam War, National Archives collection: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war#event-/timeline/item/letter-from-ho-chi-minh-to-president-harry-truman

Primary Sources: The Oral History project of the Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University: https://wwwwww.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/

Podcast Series: Vietnam War Collection, BBC Witness History: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qbglk

Article & Primary Sources: LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, National Security Archive: https://wwwnsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/tapes.htm

Primary Source: Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/august-4-1964-report-gulf-tonkin-incident

Article and Primary Sources: Archive Resources on the Tet Offensive, Texas Tech University: https://wwwwww.vietnam.ttu.edu/resources/tet/

Primary Sources: Photos, Prints, Drawings: Vietnam War, Library of Congress (searchable database): https://wwwwww.loc.gov/photos/?fa=subject:vietnam+war&st=slideshow

Interactive Exhibit: Students for a Democratic Society, University of Georgia Digital Labs: https://wwwdigilab.libs.uga.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/civil-rights-digital-history-p/students-for-a-democratic-soci

Primary Sources: Students for a Democratic Society Archive, The Freedom Archives: https://wwwsearch.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=12

1968

Article: Eight Unforgettable Ways 1968 Made History, CNN: https://wwwedition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/1968-important-events/index.html

Primary Sources & Articles: 1968: A Year of Turmoil & Change, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/news/topics/1968-a-year-of-turmoil-and-change

Primary Video: Martin Luther King Jr Assassination and Aftermath, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?443015-1/martin-luther-king-assassination-aftermath

Primary Sources & Article: King’s Assassination, Digital Public Library of America: https://wwwdp.la/exhibitions/activism/martin-luther-king--jr-/king-s-assassination
Primary Audio: Robert Kennedy Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: https://wwwwww.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/statement-on-the-death-of-martin-luther-king-jr-april4-1968

Podcast: 1968 U.S. Race Riots, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p02n27zg

Article: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Sparked Uprisings in Cities Across America, Smithsonian Magazine: https://wwwwww.smithsonianmag.com/history/martin-luther-king-jrs-assassination-sparked-uprisings-cities-across-america-180968665/

Video: The Riots in Washington, D.C. Following the King Assassination, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?c4721409/riots-washington-dc-king-assassination

Primary Sources: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Teaching American History in Maryland: http://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000000/000090/html/t90.html

Podcast: Bobby Kennedy’s Assassination, BBC Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00yqjy8

Video: Robert F. Kennedy Is Assassinated, CBS News: https://wwwabcnews.go.com/Politics/video/june-1968-robert-kennedy-assassinated-55585478

Interactive Exhibit: The Whole World is Watching: How the 1968 Chicago 'police riot' shocked America and divided the nation, The Guardian: https://wwwwww.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/19/the-whole-world-is-watching-chicago-police-riot-vietnam-war-regan

Chapter 16: Economic Turmoil and Conservative Triumph, 1969-1988


Foreign Relations

Primary Videos, Audio Articles: Vietnamization, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/vietnamization

Primary Sources & Article: Nixon’s Trip to China, National Security Archive: https://wwwnsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB106/

Video: Nixon in China (Opera preview), San Francisco Opera: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=DVd8vK0jB-0

Podcast: Nixon in China, BBC Witness History: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00nrj3n

Primary Source: Joint Communique of the United States and China, Wilson Center Digital Archive: https://wwwdigitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/121325

Primary Video: Richard Nixon Addresses the Soviet People live from the Kremlin, Richard Nixon Institute: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=oantwy7crzk

Video: Secretary Kissinger on President Nixon’s Foreign Policy, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?416377-1/secretary-kissinger-president-nixons-foreign-policy

Primary Sources: SALT I, CVCE: https://wwwwww.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-content/-/unit/55c09dcc-a9f2-45e9-b240-eaef64452cae/6975de65-5545-4a0c-b867-20a57548d25f/Resources

Article & Primary Sources: Nixon and Arms Control, Presidential Recordings Digital Edition: https://wwwprde.upress.virginia.edu/content/nixon_SALT

Primary Sources & Article: The Fall of Saigon, Associated Press: https://wwwwww.ap.org/explore/fall-of-saigon/

Podcast: The Fall of Saigon, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06418l7

Article: Ending the Vietnam War, 1969-1973, Office of the Historian: https://wwwhistory.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/ending-vietnam

Video: 444 Days to Freedom, What Really Happened in Iran - The Inside Story, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?465821-1/444-days-freedom-happened-iran-inside-story

Article: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and its Effect on American Politics, Brookings Institute: https://wwwwww.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/11/04/the-iranian-hostage-crisis-and-its-effect-on-american-politics/

Article: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Office of the Historian: https://wwwhistory.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan

Article & Video: The Iran Contra Affair, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/issues-policy/foreign-policy/iran-contra-affair

Podcast: Reagan and the Iran-Contra Scandal, BBC Letter From America by Alistair Cook series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00ydql7

Article & Video: Strategic Defense Initiative, Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://wwwwww.atomicheritage.org/history/strategic-defense-initiative-sdi

Video: President Reagan’s Cold War Strategy, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?447056-1/president-reagans-cold-war-strategy

Watergate

Primary Sources: The Watergate Files, Gerald R. Ford Library & Museum: https://wwwwww.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/index.html

Interactive Exhibit: Watergate Chronology, Watergate.info: https://wwwwatergate.info/chronology

Interactive Primary Exhibit: Watergate Archive, Washington Post: https://wwwwww.washingtonpost.com/watergate/

Article: To Understand a Scandal: Watergate Beyond Nixon, Gilder Lehrman Center: https://wwwwww.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/essays/understand-scandal-watergate-beyond-nixon

Economics

Video: End of U.S. Gold Standard, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?301406-5/end-us-gold-standard

Video & Article: The Burden of Bretton Woods, Richard Nixon Foundation: https://wwwwww.nixonfoundation.org/2016/02/the-burden-of-bretton-woods/

Video: Nixon: The Post-Bretton Woods world, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/miller-center-presents/nixion-bretton-woods

Podcast: The 1973 Oil Crisis, BBC Witness History series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswsnv

Primary Sources: The Oil Crisis, PBS Learning Media: https://wwwwww.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/b5a99bc5-ce85-4707-8e7e-f75f4f30719c/the-oil-crisis/#.XlhVKyH7Spo

Primary Video: When the Circuit Breaks, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?328347-1/reel-america-when-circuit-breaks-1975

Article: Oil Shock of 1973-4, Federal Reserve History: https://wwwwww.federalreservehistory.org/essays/oil_shock_of_1973_74

Podcast: The Great Inflation, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/20/456855788/episode-664-the-great-inflation

Primary Video: Jimmy Carter’s Crisis of Confidence Speech, Miller Center: https://wwwmillercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/july-15-1979-crisis-confidence-speech

Article: Reagan’s Recession, Pew Research Center: https://wwwwww.pewresearch.org/2010/12/14/reagans-recession/

Film: Reagan on the Economy, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/video/american-experience-reagan-on-the-economy-the-1982-recession/

Primary Audio: President Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget and Deficit Reduction: National Archives: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=dkoccHXGk2M

Chapter 17: The Age of Neoliberalism, 1989-2016


End of the Cold War

Article: “Tear Down This Wall”: How Top Advisers Opposed Reagan's Challenge to Gorbachev—But Lost, National Archive: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/berlin.html

Video: Francis Fukuyama and the End of History, Sky News: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SgwU27diw

Photo Essay: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Magnum Photos: https://wwwwww.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/fall-of-the-berlin-wall/

Primary Sources: End of the Cold War, Wilson Center: https://wwwdigitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/37/end-of-the-cold-war

Video: Reagan, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War, C-Span: https://wwwwww.c-span.org/video/?298555-1/reagan-gorbachev-end-cold-war

Article: The Collapse of the Soviet Union, Office of the Historian: https://wwwhistory.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union

U.S. Foreign Intervention

Primary Sources: Gulf War Oral Histories, Library of Congress Veterans History Project (searchable database): http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/search?field=all&query=&war=gulfwar&displayBranch=

Primary Sources: Oral Histories, Frontline, The Gulf War, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/

Article: The First Gulf War was a great success, but its unintended legacy disastrous for the Middle East – and the world as a whole, The Independent: https://wwwwww.independent.co.uk/voices/the-first-gulf-war-was-a-great-success-but-its-unintended-legacy-disastrous-for-the-middle-east-and-a6816771.html

Primary Sources & Article: Operation Desert Storm: Ten Years Later, National Security Archive: https://wwwnsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB39/

Video: Black Hawk Down: The Somali battle that changed US policy in Africa: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-38808175/black-hawk-down-the-somali-battle-that-changed-us-policy-in-africa

Podcast: What a Downed Black Hawk in Somalia Taught America, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/2013/10/05/229561805/what-a-downed-black-hawk-in-somalia-taught-america

Article: The U.S. War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later: Huffington Post: https://wwwwww.huffpost.com/entry/the-us-war-on-yugoslavia_b_211172

Primary Sources: Then and Now: Operation Allied Force, The NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty: https://wwwwww.rferl.org/a/operation-allied-force-before-after/29831978.html

9/11 and the War on Terror

Exhibits: 9/11 Memorial and Museum: https://wwwwww.911memorial.org/visit/museum/exhibitions

Primary Sources: Oral Histories, 9/11 Memorial Museum: https://wwwwww.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories

Podcast: Afghanistan: The War Without End, BBC The Documentary series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00j1dlg

Online Resource: The Costs of War, Watson Institute, Brown University: https://wwwwatson.brown.edu/costsofwar/about

Article: The Afghan war: A failure made in the USA, Al Jazeera: https://wwwwww.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/afghan-war-failure-usa-191223104820851.html

Primary Sources: Iraq: Key Speeches and Documents, The Guardian: https://wwwwww.theguardian.com/Iraq/documents/0,,916659,00.html

Article and Primary Sources: The Iraq War Ten Years After, National Security Archive: https://wwwnsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB418/

Resource Collections: War in Iraq, National Archives: https://wwwwww.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/war-in-iraq.html

Article: Guantanamo Bay: Why was it set up, what are the controversies and why does Obama want to close it?, The Independent: https://wwwwww.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/guantanamo-bay-why-was-it-set-up-what-are-the-controversies-and-why-is-obama-looking-to-close-the-a6891516.html

The L.A. Riots

Videos: Two Decades Later, Children of the L.A. Riots Share Memories, Color Lines: https://wwwwww.colorlines.com/articles/two-decades-later-children-la-riots-share-memories

Article: 25 Years After the LA Riots: An Oral History: https://wwwwww.laweekly.com/25-years-after-the-l-a-riots-an-oral-history/

Primary Sources: Place: Los Angeles Riots, Los Angeles Archivists Collective: https://wwwwww.laacollective.org/work/place-los-angeles-riots/

The Economy

Podcast Series: 20 Years of NAFTA, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/series/249998251/20-years-of-nafta

Podcast: An Economic Summit, BBC Letter from America by Alistair Cooke series: https://wwwwww.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00yh7cz

Article: NAFTA’s Long Shadow, Public Seminar: http://publicseminar.org/2018/01/naftas-long-shadow/

Primary Sources: Dot.Con, PBS Frontline: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/bubble/

Article & Video: An Eye-Opening Look at the Dot Com Bubble of 2000 and How it Shaes our Lives Today, TED: https://wwwideas.ted.com/an-eye-opening-look-at-the-dot-com-bubble-of-2000-and-how-it-shapes-our-lives-today/

Video: How the 2008 financial crisis crashed the economy and changed the world, PBS News Hour: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-2008-financial-crisis-crashed-the-economy-and-changed-the-world

Article: The Global Financial Crisis Ten Years On: Timeline, City A.M.: https://wwwwww.cityam.com/global-financial-crisis-10-years-timeline-global-events/

Video: What is Dodd-Frank?, CNBC: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqQNbHrOTo

Immigration

Article: The American Debate About Immigration in the 1990s: A New Nationalism After the end of the Cold War?, Stanford Electronic Humanities Review: https://wwwweb.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-2/dittgen.html

Maps: Maps of Immigrants in the United States, Migration Policy Institute: https://wwwwww.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/maps-foreign-born-united-states#2000

Video: As Supreme Court takes up DACA, ‘Dreamers’ hope for another temporary reprieve, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-supreme-court-takes-up-daca-dreamers-hope-for-another-temporary-reprieve

Videos: Eleven Documentaries About Immigrants Everyone Should Watch Right Now, Huffington Post:https://wwwwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/11-documentaries-about-immigrants-everyone-should-watch-right-now_n_5874fc34e4b02b5f858b20c0?ri18n=true

Electoral Politics

Video: After Bush v. Gore: 2000 Election Documentary, New York Times: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=z3os_Vw1Eoo

Article: The Florida Recount of 2000: A Nightmare that goes on Haunting, NPR: https://wwwwww.npr.org/2018/11/12/666812854/the-florida-recount-of-2000-a-nightmare-that-goes-on-haunting

Article: Bush v Gore Settles 2000 Presidential Race, Constitution Center: https://wwwconstitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-bush-v-gore-anniversary

Video: Barack Obama’s 2008 Acceptance Speech, CNN: https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo7lzfpdCU

Video: Dreams of Obama, PBS: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/dreams-obama/

Video: How Obamacare Became a Symbol of America’s Divide, PBS Frontline: https://wwwwww.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/watch-how-obamacare-became-a-symbol-of-americas-divide/

Article: Five Reasons Why Trump Will Win, Michael Moore: https://wwwmichaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

Videos & Article: How Trump Won The Election, The Guardian: https://wwwwww.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/how-did-donald-trump-win-analysis