Laws & Citizen Rights

World War II and McCarthyism

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 19 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 16 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on domestic opposition to the “good war” and the impact of McCarthyism.

Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

The Early Women’s Movement

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 6 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the early women’s movement, including their efforts for social, racial, and political equality.

Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Women's History

Half a Revolution

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 16 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 5 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the Revolutionary War as “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight,” as well as the failure of early Americans to complete a full revolution.

Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Social Class

The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

Book-Nonfiction. By Ray Raphael. 2003. 288 pages.

Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Landmark Cases Left Out of Your Textbooks

Book - Nonfiction. Edited by Ann Fagan Ginger. 2006. 84 pages.

Education, Laws & Citizen Rights

Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights

Book – Nonfiction. By Philippa Strum. 2010. 186 pages.
Description of a pre-Brown v. Board desegregation court case involving Mexican-American families.

Latino, Laws & Citizen Rights