American Foreign Policy

Books
Chafe, William, America Since 1945 (American Historical Association)
Kagan, Robert, Of Paradise and Power
Herring, George, America's Longest War
Roland, Alex, The Military-Industrial Complex (American Historical Association)
Stern, Sheldon, Averting the Final Failure
Winkler, Allan M., The Cold War: A History in Documents
The United States in Perspective

Films and CDs
Vietnam: How We Went to War: 20th Century with Mike Wallace
The Search for Peace in the Middle East: 20th Century with Mike Wallace
America and the World Since WWII (4 vol. Set)

General Curriculum Materials
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Brown University)
Coming to Terms with Power: US Choices After WWII (Brown University)
The Vietnam War: A National Dilemma (Organization of American Historians)

Civil Rights Movement

Books
Buckner, Julie, Teaching the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song
Carson, Clayborne, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle 1954-1990
Finkenbine, Roy, Sources of the African American Past: Primary Sources in American History
Kasher, Steven, and Evers-Williams, Myrlie, The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
Ogbar, Jeffrey, The Civil Rights Movement: Problems in American Civilization
Olson, Lynn, Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
Patterson, James T, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Pitney, Howard, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950’s and 1960’s: A Brief History with Documents
Romano, Renee, and Raiford, Leigh The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
Theoharis, Jeanne, and Woodward, Komozi, Freedom North: Struggles Outside the South 1940-1980

Films and CDs
A Time for Justice, Teaching Tolerance Organization/Southern Poverty Law Center
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

General Curriculum Materials
OAH, Magazine of History: Jim Crow (January 2004)
OAH, Magazine of History: Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 2005)

Civil War

Books 
Benson, T. Lloyd, The Caning of Senator Sumner
Carwardine, Richard J., Lincoln
Leonard, Elizabeth, Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge and Reunion After the Civil War
Mitchell, Reid, The American Civil War, 1861-1865
O'Connor, Thomas, Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield
Williams, Frank J. and Holzer, Harold, Judging Lincoln

Articles
Berlin, Ira, "Emancipation and Its Meaning in American Life."
Hofer, Peter Charles and Streck, William W., Reading and Writing American History"Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Their Generation,"
Masur, Kate, "Changes in the Offing for Civil War Sites," AHA Perspectives, March 2000.
McPherson, James M., "Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender." 
McPherson, James M., "The Past in the Present: Why I Became a Civil War Historian," AHA Perspectives, December 1998.
McPherson, James M., "Who Freed the Slaves?"
Neely, Jr., Mark E., “Was the Civil War a Total War?”
O'Brien, Steve, "Civil War Technology."
"Plunging In: A Student Works Through the 1982 DBQ for the First Time."

Films and CDs
The Civil War soundtrack

General Curriculum Materials
James I. Robertson, Teaching the Civil War

History of Aviation

Books
Brady, Ed., Tim, The American Aviation Experience: A History
Millbrooke, Anne, Aviation History
Post, Robert C., Technology, Transport and Travel in American History (AHA)

Films and CDs
Chasing the Sun: A Century of Flight

General Curriculum Materials
Wright Flyer Keepsake model
Spirit of St. Louis Keepsake model

History of Immigration

Books
Asayesh, Galareh, Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Dublin, Thomas, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986
Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Fifield, Adam, A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother
Hausen, H. My Farm on the Missouri, 1945-48: The Story of Heinrich Hauser
O'Connor, Thomas, Eminent Bostonians
Santiago, Esmeralda , When I Was Puerto Rican
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Torr, James. Immigrants in America: Primary Sources
Yezierska, A., Bread Givers

Teaching Guides

AHA Publications
Teaching Immigration of People of Color to the United States (1999)
Perpsectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History (1999)
Ethnicity and Immigration (1997) (Historiographical essay)

OAH Publications
OAH, Teaching Units, Asian Immigration to the United States
Curriculum Unit: US Immigration Policy in An Unsettled World (Brown Univ. Choices, reproducible unit)

Films and CDs
"Who Built America" Produced by the American Social History Project, in collaboration with the Center for History and New Media.

Videos
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, "Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Ellis Island and the American Immigration Experience"
"Nation of Immigrants" part of the series Destination America

Industrial Revolution

Books
Dublin, Thomas, Farm to Factory
Eisler, ed, Benita. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women
Pendergast, John, Life Along the Merrimac

From The Lowell National Historical Park:
The Lowell Mill Girls
The Ten-Hour Movement
Cotton, Cloth and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Industrial City
Thomas Dublin, Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City
The Workers Remember (video)

Local History & Museums

Books
Bahne, Charles, The Complete Guide to the Freedom Trail
"Boston and the American Revolution" (National Park Handbook)
Brown, Richard D. and Tager, Jack, Massachusetts: A Concise History
O'Connor, Thomas, The Hub: Boston Past and Present
Finn, David, "How to Visit a Museum"
Davidson, James West and Lytle, Mark Hamilton, "After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection"
Rubman, Kerri, "Heritage Education: An Introduction for Teachers, Group Leaders and Program Planners"
White, Charles, "Teaching with Historic Places: A Curriculum Framework"

Web sites
Teaching with Historic Places
Exploring the Real Thing
Smithsonian Education
Museum of Fine Arts
Plymouth Schools

U.S. Constitution

Founding Ideas & Documents: The Origins of the U.S. Constitution

Books
Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Harcourt, 2002
Kammen, Michael, The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History
Katzman, David M., Blight, David W., Chudaciff, Howard P., Paterson, Thomas G., Tuttle, William M., Escott, Paul D. and Norton, Mary Beth , A People and a Nation: A History of the United States
Maier, Pauline, The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
McCullough, David, 1776
Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750- 1800
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Wood, Gordon S., The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Young, Alfred, Y., Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier  

Articles
Bullock, Steven C., (July 2002). American Midrash. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/talk/
Cray Jr., Robert E. “Commemorating the Prison Ship Dead: Revolutionary Memory and the Politics of Sepulture in the Early Republic, 1776-1808,” William and Mary Quarterly  56 (1999): 565-590.
Delmar, Frances, (July 2002). Shouldering Independence. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/pastimes/2002-07.shtml
Hoffer, Peter Charles, (July 2002). Consensus and Celebrations. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vox-pop/200207.shtml
Kerber, Linda, (July 2002). The Asymmetries of Citizenship. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/roundtable/kerber.shtml
Lewis, Jan, (July 2002). Why the Constitution Includes Women. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/roundtable/lewis.shtml
Newman, Paul Douglas, “A Tale of Two Constitutional Conventions,” HNN  8/29/05 and succeeding comments.
Rakove, Jack, (July 2002). Dr. Clio Goes to Washington. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/roundtable/rakove.shtml
Sesso, Gloria, (July 2002). We the People. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/school/
Twiss-Garrity, Beth, (July 2002). Relics, Reverence and Relevance. Retrieved from http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/lessons/

General Curriculum Materials
Massachusetts Curriculum Guidelines, National Archives and Records Administration
100 Significant Documents from Outside Washington, DC, National Archives and Records Administration
 

The Document Itself: Creation, Ratification and Implementation of the U.S. Constitution

Books
Douglass, Elisha, Rebels & Democrats: The Struggle for Political Rights and Majority Rule during the American Revolution
Fischer, David Hackett, Washington’s Crossing
Fischer, David Hackett, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
Fischer, David Hackett, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas
Fischer, David Hackett, Paul Revere’s Ride
Fisher, David Hackett, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Rakove, Jack, Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents
Rakove, Jack, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic
Rakove, Jack, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Rakove, Jack, The Federalist

Interpretation: The Lived Meaning of the U.S. Constitution

Books
Allgor, Catherine, Parlor Politics
Cornell, Saul, Who's Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?
Fisher, Louis, In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case
Fisher, Louis, Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism
Raskin, Jamin B., We The Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About Students
Sterling Young, James, The Washington Community

Articles
Fisher, Louis. “Bush’s Game.” Legal Times. (December 4, 2006): 6
Fisher, Louis. “Hiding Behind Secrecy.”  Los Angeles Times. (June 14, 2006): B13
Fisher, Louis. “Invoke it at a Cost.” The National Law Journal. (July 31, 2006): 23
Fisher, Louis. “Raise the Bar for State Secrets Privilege.” The Christian Science Monitor. (September 13, 2006): 9
Fisher, Louis. “State Your Secrets.” Legal Times. (June 26, 2006): 69
Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic Core, Part One: How to Educate Democracy http://www.shankerinstitute.org/Downloads/gagnon/part1.pdf
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Social Studies – History/Adolescence Young Adulthood Standard VI: Developing Civic Competence http://www.nbpts.org/the_standards/standards_by_cert?ID=5&x=59&y=8
National Council for the Social Studies - Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: II. Thematic Strands – X Civic Ideal & Practices http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands
Putting Learning into Service, by Jim Patterson, Leadership for Student Activities

General Curriculum Materials
Citizenship Mini-Lessons, Constitutional Rights Foundation
Civic Action Guide, Constitutional Rights Foundation
Freedom of Speech, Social Studies School Service
Judge for Yourself, Social Studies School Service
Primary Sourcebooks Set; The Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Gettysburg Address, and “I Have A Dream”, Teaching American History Professional Development Project a partnership of the Fall River Public Schools and Bristol Community CollegeRights Matter: The Story of the Bill of Rights, by Nancy Murray (American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts)
The Challenge of Governance, Constitutional Rights Foundation
We The People: Project Citizen Student Text

Films and CDs
The Supreme Court (Set of 4 DVDs), Social Studies School Service

Women's & Gender History

Books and Articles
Berkin, Carol and Leslie Horowitz, Eds., Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History
Bernikow, Louise, The American Women’s Almanac  Dubois, Ellen Carol and Lynn Dumenil., Eds., Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents
Nies, Judith, Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition and Native American History

Films and CDs
One Woman, One Vote

Curriculum materials

AHA Publications
Anderson, Karen. Teaching Gender in US History (1997)

OAH Publications
Magazine of History: Sex, Courtship, and Dating (July 2004)
Curriculum Unit: The Hardest Struggle: Women and the Sweated Industrial Labor