Reconstruction Period

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: Teaching a People’s History of Reconstruction

Background Reading for Teachers PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 4 pages.

African American, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery

Indian Removal

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 7 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the American policy of “Manifest Destiny” and Native American resistance to their own displacement.

Imperialism, Native American, Racism & Racial Identity

Strikers and Populists in the Golden Age

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 11 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the Gilded Age.

Labor, Social Class

The Expansion of Empire

Teaching Activity PDF. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 15 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 12 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on internal dissent over American expansionist policies.

Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry Into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Teaching Guide. By ASHP with foreword by Eric Foner. 302 pages.
Primary documents, essays and questions to teach the untold story of Reconstruction.

African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Racism & Racial Identity, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Book - Nonfiction. By Howard Zinn. 2005. 702 pages.
Howard Zinn’s groundbreaking work on U.S. history. This book details the lives and facts that are rarely included in textbooks — an indispensable teacher resource.

Freedom Road

Book - Fiction. By Howard Fast. Introduction by Eric Foner and foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois. 294 pages.
This politics and economics of Reconstruction told through memorable historical fiction.