AP AMERICAN HISTORY:  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

TERM 3 BONUS

These papers and document exercises can be read and completed for bonus as we proceed through the course.

George Washington and Slavery
(Documents/Questions)
Civil WarMemory and Jackson County
(Documents/ Questions)

 

TERM 4 BONUS

You may complete two of these during Term 4

FDR and the World Crisis
(Documents/Questions)
Eisenhower, McCarthy,  and the Election of 1952
(Documents/Essay)

Machiavelli Meets Kuklick:  The Power of Appearance in Politics
(Article Review)

Corporal RedCloud and the Power of Memory
(Article Review)

Vietnam in American Memory:  Competing Lessons of a Contentious War
(Article Review)

Correlating with Film:
"Shell Shock"

WORLD WAR I POSTERS
LOST POETS OF WW1      

 

Why not take a look at the classroom slides for a second time?  A third time?  These are handy if you miss class or you need to review class discussion! I will attempt to keep them as updated as possible.

REVIEW SLIDES AND LECTURE NOTES

Reflective Engagement UNIT 1:
Times Present and Times Past
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY NOTES (Klopfenstein) AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT TO 1850
(Kruszewski)
UNIT 2: The Early Republic 1789-1815
SLAVERY NOTES (Rykken) UNIT 3:
Jacksonian Democracy 1815-1840
UNIT 4:
Expansion and Division
1841-1865
UNIT 5:
RESTORATION AND TRANSITION
1865-1900
UNIT 6A:
Foreign Policy:
Rise to Power
1898-1945
UNIT 6B: The Interwar Years:  19191939 Unit 7:  Foreign Policy:  Cold War and Beyond 1945 and Beyond    

 

 

 

 

Do you want to have some fun?  Then plunge into these babies.  They will give you a "need to know" version of various time periods that require special attention due to our time crunch! 

TIME PERIOD SUMMARIES

Turner's "Significance of History" Fun With Early American History

Dancing With Domestic History:  1865-1900

Having a Riot With Domestic History:  1898-1945  
Having a Blast With Domestic History:  1945-Present DBQ Topical Analysis Since 1973      

 

RANDOM LINKS

These are links that have been referenced this year that you may find helpful.

Presidential State of the Union Messages

LUCY'S FBI FILE:  THE RED SCARE REVISITED

     
 

     

 

Our post-exam unit of study will focus on what it has meant to grow up in America since 1945.  We will be analyzing the world the 18 year olds at various points in time using generational theory.  The following links will be helpful as we proceed.


OUR FINAL UNIT OF STUDY!

COMING OF AGE IN MODERN AMERICA
(or . . . "Does History ever end?")

 

Generational
Theory

CULTURAL HISTORY BY DECADE

FILMOGRAPHY

EXPLORING THE 1960S

Generations
X and Y

CYCLES OF HISTORY

UNDERSTANDING STRAUSS AND HOWE

SCHLESINGER AND CYCLES OF HISTORY
(READING)

1950s

1960S

1970S

1980S

1990S

TRY GOOGLE TIMELINE -- WOW!

 

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

THE GRADUATE (1967)

BREAKING AWAY (1979)

GILDER-LEHRMAN: THE HISTORY MODULE

GOLDFIELD ESSAY
(CIVIL RIGHTS)

HIPPO MODULES

IS GENERATION X IGNORED?

DISCUSSION OF BOOMERS AND GEN X'ERS

GENERATION X PARENTS

CURRENT NEWS ABOUT GENERATION Y

POLITICS AND THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION

MILLIENNIALS RISING (with Rykken Commentary)

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