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Sample Resources

ayoungA Young People’s History of the United States

This is the new, revised, and updated single volume young adult edition of Howard Zinn’s classic telling of American history. A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of enslaved people, workers, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people.

differA Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

A multicultural history of the United States in the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and others.

dn_logo-100x100Democracy Now!

Website with daily news radio program. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides listeners with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts.

standing2-100x100Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders

One of the best films on the Civil Rights Movement, this award-winning documentary reveals the movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it and emerged as its grassroots leaders. The film is full of riveting historical footage and original interviews. Voter registration, the fight for equal education, and desegregation are featured.