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Program Information

Today's Meet (online and live comment streaming for the Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness TAH program)
2011-2012 Calendar of Events
State of Connecticut Social Studies Standards
Mini-Grant Application
Keeping it Real: Teaching with Primary Sources
Modifying Documents (Joe Jelen's Powerpoint Presentation)

General Resources
History Forum Handouts
Mailing Lists

General Resources

• If you would like to borrow a book from our library please set up a GuruLib account or e-mail Joe Jelen. Books can be mailed to you or picked up from the ACES-Staff Development building. ACES TAH Program Library
• Adapting Documents for Classroom Use
• Structured Academic Controversy Explanation
• FREE Digital Tools

History Forum Handouts and Online Resources

Year 2009-2010

Women's Photography and Social Reform
Laura Wexler
January 19, 2012

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression
Social Forces Visualized: Photography and Scientific Charity, 1900-1920

Bibliography
Race, Women and the City in Progressive Era America (Professor Lui's Powerpoint Presentation)

Teaching Documents
Progressive Reformers SAC documents
SAC Capture Sheet Progressive Reformers

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

Professor Steven Stoll's powerpoint presentation on The U.S. Environmental Movement Since 1945
Robert Bullard, "Environmental Racism in the United States" (1993)
1989 Address by Cesar Chavez, President UFW of America, AFL-CIO (Pesticides)

Ideas for Integrating Webcams into Instruction
Mic Stand to Make Your Own Document Camera
Uses for a Document Camera in Class
15 Interesting Ways to Use a Webcam in Class
CommonCraft Video - Students can create similar videos using a webcam (Learn how)
Connect with a Global Classroom

Selected bibliography, Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Documents from the JFK Library

Nick Taylor's Powerpoint Presentation
Looking Closer at FDR's Fireside Chats
New Deal Network
The Plow that Broke the Plains (Film by Pare Lorenz)

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
Ellis Island National Monument
Statue of Liberty National Grant

Teaching the Triangle Fire, John McClymer
The Triangle Factory Fire, Cornell University
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial, Famous Trials

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

Year 2009-2010

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
Professor Harry Stout, Yale University

Prof. Robertson's Powerpoint Presentation for her lecture, "The Abolitionists and American Slavery"
Professor Stacey Robertson, Bradley University

Resources for our visit to the Harriett Beecher Stowe Center

The Coming of the Civil War
Professor Gary Kornblith, Oberlin College

Resources for Lowell Mills Field Trip

Resources for African Americans and Abolitionism
Professor Richard Newman

Mailing Lists

The following mailing lists and electronic newsletters are useful sources of information for U.S. History teachers:

Internet Scout Report

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The Gilder Lehrman Center Newsletter

WASHINGTON UPDATE (National Coalition for History)

Teaching History (An e-newsletter of the National History Education Clearinghouse)

Teaching Tolerance (A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center)