Haiku and Hiroshima: Teaching About the Atomic Bomb

Teaching Activity PDF. By Wayne Au. 3 pages.

US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

A Lesson on the Japanese American Internment

Teaching Activity PDF. By Mark Sweeting. 4 pages.

Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Salt of the Earth: Grounds Students in Hope

Teaching Activity PDF. By S.J. Childs. 6 pages.
The author describes how she introduces students to the classic 1953 film Salt of the Earth about a miners’ strike in New Mexico.

Labor, Latino, Social Class, Women's History

“We Had Set Ourselves Free”: Lessons on the Civil Rights Movement

Teaching Activity PDF. By Doug Sherman. 4 pages.
The author describes how he uses biographies and film to introduce students to the role of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement beyond the familiar heroes. He emphasizes the role and experiences of young people in the Movement.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Individuals in US History, Racism & Racial Identity

Rethinking the Teaching of the Vietnam War

Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 8 pages.
A role play on the history of the Vietnam War that is left out of traditional textbooks.

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

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

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Book - Nonfiction. By Russell Freedman. 2006. 114 pages.
The story of the bus boycott, in which Rosa Parks played a role but was not the sole hero.

African American, Civil Rights Movements

“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II

Book - Nonfiction. By Studs Terkel. 2004. 608 pages.

US Foreign Policy, 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.

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Book-Nonfiction (with CD). Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad. 2008. 346 pages.

African American, Individuals in US History, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class