Film. By Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. 2004. 145 minutes.
This award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts, and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.
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Film. By Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold. 2001. 30 minutes.
How Philip Morris has conspired to hook children on tobacco and keep governments from protecting public health.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank. 2005. 304 pages.
Challenges the misconception that only the South was involved in or profited from slavery.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Melba Pattillo Beals. 2007. 336 pages.
Story of a teenage girl chosen to integrate Little Rock High School.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Miguel Melendez. 2003. 260 pages.
Legacy of the Young Lords in the Puerto Rican struggle for equality and independence.
Teaching Activity by Miguel Melendez
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Teaching Guide. By Rick Ayers. 2001. 208 pages.
Discussion questions and teaching ideas for Terkel's classic 1974 text.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine. 1991. 784 pages
Readings to accompany the film, Eyes on the Prize.
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Book — Fiction. By Paul Fleischman. 1993. 128 pages.
A historical novel for middle school and above about the Civil War Battle of Bull Run drama told in 16 voices.
Teaching Activity by Paul Fleischman
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Profile. By Jeffrey B. Perry.
Overview of the life and work scholar and activist Hubert Harrison.
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Teaching Guide. By Alan J. Singer. 2008. 178 pages.
Narrative description of slavery in the north and strategies for engaging young people as historians on the topic.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kyle Ward. 2010. 368 pages.
A critique of the representation of history in textbooks.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Studs Terkel. 2004. 608 pages.
Interviews with over 120 people about WWII.
Teaching Activity by Studs Terkel
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ray Raphael. 2003. 288 pages.
The events leading up to the American Revolution.
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Book — Non-fiction (with CD). Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad. 2008. 346 pages.
Extensive oral history of African American life under segregation.
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Website.
A clearinghouse of history resources for high school and college teachers and students.
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Teaching Guide. By Linda Christensen. Rethinking Schools. 2009. 287 pages.
Through stories, Christensen demonstrates how to draw on students' lives and the world to teach poetry, essay, narrative, and critical literacy skills. Published by Rethinking Schools.
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Slideshow on DVD. 1977, updated in 2008. Rethinking Schools and the Council on Interracial Books for Children.
Native American history through the eyes of Native American children.
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Teaching Guide. Edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson. Rethinking Schools. 2013 (2nd edition). 300 pages.
Lessons and articles on social justice math education for elementary and secondary school classrooms.
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Teaching Guide. Edited by Rethinking Schools. Rethinking Schools. 2004. 240 pages.
Show how teachers can promote the values of community, justice, and equality while building academic skills.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis. 2005. 320 pages.
Comprehensive history of African Americans.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Richard Kluger. 2004. 880 pages.
One of the first texts, now a classic, on Brown v. Board of Education.
Teaching Activity by Richard Kluger
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Book — Non-fiction. By Cynthia Stokes Brown. 2002. 192 pages.
Four short biographies of white people who've fought against racism in U.S. history.
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Article in PDF. By Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 5 pages.
An essay on the impact of globalization, with the story of Haiti as an example.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Edwidge Danticat. 2001. 280 pages.
Thirty-three essays and poems describing the Haitian Émigré experience.
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Film. By Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. 2009. 94 minutes.
The riveting story of how a Pentagon official risks life in prison by leaking 7,000 pages of a top secret report to the New York Times to help stop the Vietnam War.
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