A full year of high school American History will be studied from a variety of views including history, government, politics, literature, art, ideas, and institutions.  Students will develop an understanding of the development of American culture and ways of life.  The course starts with early American life and continues to present day.

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Homework will be assigned but it is only required of students who are wanting a grade for the course.  Students should plan on doing 2-3 hours of homework per week.  Students will also write DBQ's (Document Based Essays) for several of the pivotal events that shaped America.  Homework is intended to get the students to think in depth about the material presented in class.
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Homework will be assigned but it is only required of students who are wanting a grade for the course.  Students should plan on doing 2-3 hours of homework per week.  Students will also write DBQ's (Document Based Essays) for several of the pivotal events that shaped America.  Homework is intended to get the students to think in depth about the material presented in class.  All homework is optional.
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--The United States Constitution
--The Declaration of Independence
--The United States Bill of Rights
--Magna Carta
--National Geographic Maps
--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
--The 1619 Project--https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum
--Teaching Tolerance--https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/teaching-tolerance/  
--Howard Zinn--"A People's History of the United States"
--James D. Richardson, Messages and Papers of The Presidents, 1897
--Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1821
--Ken Burns, https://www.pbs.org/franchise/ken-burns/
--Statistics on Industrial Growth in the United States from 1870-1910
--PBS (Public Broadcasting Service, funded by U.S. government) Image, “Triangular” Trade 
--Excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
--Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
--Technology in America--Eli Whitney
--Democracy in America--Alexis de Tocqueville
---Abraham Lincoln, debate speech in Jonesboro, Illinois, Sept 15, 1858
--Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863) 
-- Excerpt from Senate Report 693, 46th Congress, 2nd Session (1880)
--The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution
--Alexander Toponce, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore
--Willer Catha, O Pioneers!, 1913
--Albert Gallatin, Peace With Mexico, 1847
--June Namias, First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants, Beacon Press, 1978
--Gladys Nadler Rips, Coming to America: Immigrants from Southern Europe, Delacorte Press
--Edward G. Hartmann, American Immigration, Lerner Publications (adapted)
--https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/under-attack/
--https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
--https://lifeinitaly.com/italian-discrimination/
--United States Constitution, 18th Amendment, Section 1, 1919
--Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906
--Platform of the Progressive Party, August 7, 1912 presidential candidate — Theodore Roosevelt
--Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Address to Congress, January 8, 1918
--Henry Cabot Lodge, Opposition to the Treaty of Versailles, August 12, 1919
--World War I Propaganda Posters
--John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
--: Howard Johnson, an African American newspaper editor, interviewed in The Century, 1998
--Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, 1931
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speech December 8, 1941 (“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”)
--"Iron Curtain Speech", by Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946
--Editorial-Washington Post-"New National Policy" September 17, 1940
--Excerpt, from President John F. Kennedy’s speech to the American people explaining the threat of nuclear that was obvious in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962
--US Birth Statistics 1910-1998
--The Good Wife's Guide--Good Housekeeping, May 13, 1955
--General Electric Advertisement, 1952
--Civil Rights Act of 1964
--Lyndon Johnson, Address to the Nation, March 31, 1968
--President Richard Nixon, Address to the Nation, 1969