American+History+Since+1865

=Online Resources= Freedom: A History of US Zoom Into Maps Six Essentials of Geography Congress for Kids U.S. Map with Capitals United States United States History Map Primary Sources The Presidents Growth of a Nation Our Constitution Sounds of the Presidents 20th Century Links Kids Government

Books to use for all Lessons
//Presidents of the United States// / by the editors of Time for kids, with Lisa DeMauro //Lives of the presidents : fame, shame (and what the neighbors thought//) / written by Kathleen Krull

Other Resources
Middle School Advantage - History & Britannica Encyclopedia Photo Essay of the US 1860 - 1900 (on google docs)

=Topics= Unit 1: A New Beginning

Unit 2: Rebuilding a Nation Order the following books from library: //Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee// by Patricia Beatty. Morrow Junior Books //Shades of Gray// by Carolyn Reeder. Macmillan, 1989 //Book of Firsts : Leaders of America// edited by Richard Rennert //Lives of the Presidents : Fame, Shame (and what the neighbors thought)// by Kathleen Krull //Presidents of the United States// by the editors of Time for Kids

Unit 3: Changing and Growing Order the following books from the library: //If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island// by Ellen Levine //The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the world of immigrant America// by Tom Buk-Swienty //Westward Ho!: Eleven Explorers// of the West by Charlotte Foltz Jones //Pioneers: Life as a Homesteader// by Emily Raabe //Westward Expansion// by Teresa Domnauer //Cattle Trails and Cowboys// by Sally Senzell Isaacs //The Transcontinental Railroad// by John Perritano //The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad// by Nathan Olson [|Transcontinental Railroad Video - Download from Library] //Wounded Knee: the Death of a Dream// by Laurie O'Neill //A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee// by Ted Wood //Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce// by Agnieskzka Biskup //Chief Joseph: The Voice for Peace// by Lorraine Hopping Egan //America's Political Scandals in the Late 1800s: Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall// by Corona Brezina //Mark T-W-A-I-N!: a Story about Samuel Clemens// by David R. Collins //Marching with Aunt Susan : Susan B. Anthony and the fight for women's suffrage// by Claire Rudolf Murphy //I could do that : Esther Morris gets women the vote// by Linda Arms White //When Esther Morris headed West : women, Wyoming, and the right to vote// by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge //Susan B. Anthony : a life of fairness// by Jennifer Boothroyd

Unit 4: Freedom Denied Order the following books from the library: //What are the amendments?// by Nancy Harris //Booker T. Washington : educator, author, and Civil Rights leader// by Jim Whiting //W.E.B. Dubois// by Jennifer Blizin Gillis

Unit 5: Politics, Power, and the People Order the following books from the library: //Andrew Carnegie : captain of industry// by Dana Meachen Rau //John D. Rockefeller, richest man ever// by Ellen Greenman Coffey //A kid's guide to the economy// by Tamra Orr //The year we were famous// by Carole Estby Dagg

Unit 6: Making Things Better Order the following books from the library: //Workers unite! : the American labor movement// by Kevin Hillstrom //The story of Mother Jones// by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack //Ida Tarbell : pioneer investigative reporter// by Barbara A. Somerville //The camping trip that changed America : Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our national parks// by Barb Rosenstock //Jane Addams : social reformer and Nobel Prize winner// by Pam Rosenberg

Unit 7: Entering a New Century Order the following books from the library: //What are the amendments? by Nancy Harris// //Theodore Roosevelt for kids : his life and times, 21 activities// by Kerrie Logan Hollihan //Roosevelt's Rough Riders// by Andrew Santella //The Spanish-American War// by Carl R. Green //The donkey of Gallipoli : a true story of courage in World War I// by Mark Greenwood //Timeline of World War I// by Charlie Samuels

Unit 8: A Fascinating Era Order the following books from the library: //Introducing Gershwin// by Roland Vernon //The 1920s// by Greg T. Farshtey //Prohibition : America makes alcohol illegal// by Daniel Cohen //Women suffrage// by Deborah Kops //Calvin Coolidge// by Michael Geoffrey Allen //Edwin Hubble : American astronomer// by Mary Virginia Fox //Robert Goddard and the liquid rocket engine// by John Bankston //The young journalist's book : how to write and produce your own newspaper// by Nancy Bentley and Donna Guthrie //Herbert Hoover : America's 31st president// by Martha E. Kendall //The stock market// by Donna Jo Fuller //Ups and downs : a book about the stock market// by Nancy Loewen

Unit 9: Hard Times Order the following books from the library: //The stock market crash// of 1929 by Scott Ingram //The day of the black blizzard// by Candice Ransom //Going to school during the Great Depression// by Kerry A. Graves //Out of the dust [sound recording]// / Karen Hesse A Boy Named FDR: how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America by Kathleen Krull Eleanor Roosevelt : first lady of the world / by the editors of Time for kids Who was Franklin Roosevelt? / by Margaret Frith ; iIllustrated by John O'Brien Franklin Delano Roosevelt : the New Deal president / by Brenda Haugen

Unit 10: The Second World War Order the following books from the library: Rosie the Riveter / Christine Petersen World War II : day by day Albert Einstein / by Susan Kesselring Portraits of Jewish American heroes / by Malka Drucker ; illustrated by Elizabeth Rosen Pearl Harbor : a primary source history / Jacqueline Laks Gorman Kids make history : a new look at America's story / Susan Buckley and Elspeth Leacock ; Illustrations by Randy Jones D-day landings : the story of the Allied invasion / written by Richard Platt World War II : Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, Dwight D. Eisenhower / by Aaron Rosenberg The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial / Anne Phillips Harry S. Truman / by Michael Foley The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

Unit 11: Recovery, Reaction, Reform Order the following books from the library: Harry S. Truman / Michael A. Schuman The Cold War / R.G. Gran America in the 1950s / Edmund Lindop Dwight D. Eisenhower / Jean Darby Timeline of the Vietnam War / Charlie Samuels Heroes for civil rights / by David A. Adler Thurgood Marshall / by Christine Taylor-Butler

Unit 12: A Turbulent Time Order the following books from the library: Jack's path of courage : the life of John F. Kennedy / written by Doreen Rappaport John F. Kennedy : a life of citizenship / written by Anne Todd Lyndon Baines Johnson / by Michael Burgan Heroes for civil rights / by David A. Adler Timeline of the Vietnam War / Charlie Samuels Gender Equality by Sean Connolly Rabble rousers : 20 women who made a difference / Cheryl Harness African American migration / Tracee Sioux A picture book of Cesar Chavez / by David A. Adler A ripple of hope : the life of Robert F. Kennedy / Barbara Harrison

Unit 13: Not So Long Ago Order the following books from the library: The new big book of U.S. presidents / by Todd Davis and Marc Frey The 60s : mods & hippies / Kitty Powe-Temperley Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) / by Douglas Lynne Richard M. Nixon / Billy Aronson Presidents of the United States / by the editors of Time for kids, with Lisa DeMauro The Watergate scandal / Dan Elish Gift of peace : the Jimmy Carter story / Elizabeth Raum Lives of the presidents : fame, shame (and what the neighbors thought) / written by Kathleen Krull Ronald Reagan / Michael Burgan George Bush : forty-first president 1989-1993 / written and illustrated by Mike Venezia Bill Clinton : forty-second president 1993-2001 / written and illustrated by Mike Venezia Immigration / by Peter Benoit America is under attack : September 11, 2001 : the day the towers fell / Don Brown Timeline of the war on terror / Charlie Samuels
 * ​**Gerald Ford / Megan M. Gunderson