Teacher Resources

 

ASHP TEACHER RESOURCES

The ASHP Web site provides access to the following resources and lesson plans:

ONLINE MATERIALS AND RESOURCES

History Matters serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers a wealth of materials for teaching U.S. history. Be sure to use the search page to navigate a collection that includes:

  • more than 800 primary documents with annotations on their historical context and significance ("Many Pasts")
  • an annoated list of more than 600 of the best history sites on the Web ("www.history")
  • a collection of online student-produced history projects ("Students as historians")

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is a Web site that offers a lively and accessible introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of primary text, audio, and visual documents from the Revolution. A CD-ROM version is also available.

Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era is a Web site featuring archival records and oral history interviews with Brooklyn College students who participated in a World War II Farm Labor Project and a Cold War era-controversy over free speech on campus. A section on using the documents in the classroom is under construction.

ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS AND LESSON PLANS

ASHP is developing online resources for the Who Built America? video documentaries that have long been a foundation of its education programs.

Check back for updates.

The Classroom Activities page of our New Media Classroom (NMC) program contains inquiry-based assignments using the World Wide Web and CD-ROMs. Other NMC classroom resources include course outlines, skill-building tools, and other practical electronic learning guides.

Digital Blackboard is a History Matters feature that offers successful Web-based assignmentsÜsome we have developed ourselves, and others developed by the Library of Congress and the National Archives.

The Lost Museum is a Web-based, interactive re-creation of P. T. Barnum's American Museum that examines the social, cultural, and political history of antebellum and Civil War America. It will soon contain a new section called "The Classroom," which will offer lesson plans and thematic units that draw upon the "Exploration" and "Archive" sections. Currently the site contains four sample lessons.

CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER TEACHERS

Talking History is a series of online forums on teaching particular topics. Moderated by leading historians and eventually archived in History Matters, the discussions have addressed more than a dozen topics ranging from the American Revolution to African-American history to the Vietnam Era. The next forum, scheduled for March, 2002, is on "Families in U.S. History" and will be moderated by Linda Gordon of N.Y.U.

Secrets of Great History Teachers, a History Matters feature, is a set of interviews with distinguished teachers who share their strategies and techniques.

TEXTS AND VIDEOS

The following materials are provided to participants in our Making Connections program, and they can also be ordered here:

  • Who Built America?, our comprehensive and award-winning history of the U.S., is available in several formats: a two-volume print text; a series of ten video documentaries; the CD-ROM, Part I (1876-1914); and the CD-ROM, Part II (1914-1946).
  • Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry Into the Civil War and Reconstruction is a text and document collection combined. The book's twelve chapters, accompanied by discussion questions, critical thinking exercises, timelines, and a glossary, provide a lively and accessible overview of the war and Reconstruction, based on the latest scholarship. Letters, speeches, excerpts from novels and newspapers, photographs, engravings, political cartoons, and other primary sources offer students a chance to look at the historical record for themselves.