15 minute video about KS-NB Act, Bleeding Kansas

3 minute clip on Harriet Beecher Stowe from The Abolitionists, to be used w/lesson Uncle Tom's Cabin

Short clips from various professors about Western Expansion. all 3 min or less, really interesting specific clips about various issues related to the US expansion...

Full length video of History Channel's Donner Party doc.

Strike it Rich game...learn what to do/how to survive and find gold. Could be a fun Friday activity or an extra credit assignment.

Not on DVD, only VHS... 9 Master Race 1933 The Third Reich brings barbarity to the modern era. Germany is rebuilt through huge public works program, winning Hitler adulation from a once humiliated, impoverished and unemployed German people. Radio and mass rallies become important tools for propaganda, to eulogise the Germans as a 'master race'. The Nazis also use ancient jealousies to demonise the Jews, who had a strong presence in the professions and arts. Roma, the mentally handicapped and other groups are also targeted. The Nuremburg Laws and other measures are used to progressively discriminate against and dehumanise Jews. Persecution of the Jews intensifies after Anschluss and Kristallnacht, and after the commencement of war, the Final Solution is implemented. The mass murder of Jews and other people is carried out at first by mobile killing groups (Einsatzgruppen) in occupied territories, and then on an industrialised scale through extermination camps. The introductory scene shows the celebratory march by the Sturmabteilung when Hitler wins power in Germany.

10 days, 2 of which fall under our timeframe: January 24, 1848 The beginning of the California Gold Rush also a time where people were moving from east to west September 17, 1862 The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War

REferenced today in class, movie from Sundance about obedience. She made the connection to Milgram.

a 7-10 day unit on Gettysburg including watching parts of the movie.

Same format as the MX-AM War that we used as the basis for our essay

3 segments of the movie...cut into chunks

really interesting website from high school in Canada...cool resources, interesting approach using internet/multi-media

Something to consider if we change our curriculum and spend more time on US-MX, Latino history, etc

some good stuff on Texas history including primary sources.

Awesome collection extensive lesson plans that leverage primary sources, some modified on US history

interesting site that looks at some of the modern consequences of the IRA

US/MX War and Manifest Destiny

Interactive about Underground Railroad

First debate: Wednesday, October 3, 9:00 p.m. EDT

Interesting article on Holocaust family members getting tattoos of their # on their arms to pass on legacy.