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Resources
Throughout our research, we have compiled a list of incredible resources that we believe every social studies teacher should know about. We are happy to feature the work of others while creating a one-stop-shop for educators.
Check them out below and let us know what else we should add to the list!
• From the New York Times: Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories. American History Textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html)
• 7 Things US History Class should have taught every American about Indigenous History by Halee Kirkwood(https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/7-things-history-class-should-have-taught-every-us-american-about-indigenous-history/)
• From The Atlantic: The Complex Legacy of Rosie the Riveter(https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/the-complex-legacy-of-rosie-the-riveter/69268/)
• From The Atlantic: “Who Owns America’s Wilderness” (https://www.theatlantic.com/category/who-owns-americas-wilderness/)
• From Time: #MeToo vs. Time's Up, What is the difference?(https://time.com/5189945/whats-the-difference-between-the-metoo-and-times-up-movements/)
• From The Bill of Rights Institute: The Gay Liberation Movement(https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-gay-liberation-movement)
• From PBS' The American Experience: Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/)
• Native Knowledge 360° - Interactive Teaching Resources(https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/)
• National Parks Service - Civil Rights Resources for Educators and Kids(https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilrights/education.htm)
• UntoldEdu: The stories you never learned about in history class – made fun and accessible through stunning animation(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpN8-4S0c64IVKYPdeMxBuQ/featured)
• Black History in Two Minutes or so: Brief and concise historical episodes of the African-American experience. Narrated by renowned historian, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and executive produced by Robert F. Smith(https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackHistoryinTwoMinutes/featured)
• ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnkqoM)
• "This Land" by Crooked Media: Two crimes collide in a Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of one man and nearly half of the land in Oklahoma(https://open.spotify.com/show/00cW96nTcbQSq5EOfRsFcB?si=wRpRESneRCWa5fS0_w_zMw)
• “A.D.A. Now!” a Podcast episode from NPR’s Throughline(https://www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895896462/a-d-a-now)
• “Uncivil” a Podcast series on the Civil War from Gimlet(https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil)
• “The 1920s PR Team That Reinvented & Swindled the Ku Klux Klan w/ Dale W. Laackman” a True Crime History Podcast(https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/1920s-pr-team-that-reinvented-swindled-ku-klux-klan/id1055044256?i=1000372168150)
• “Can We Talk About Whiteness?” a Podcast episode from NPR’s Code Switch(https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/31/479733094/the-code-switch-podcast-episode-1-can-we-talk-about-whiteness)
• “The Long Hot Summer” a Podcast episode from NPR’s Throughline(https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888184490/the-long-hot-summer)
• “Essential Mitch: The Early Years” a Podcast series season from NPR’s Embedded, examining the rise and little known steps in Mitch McConnell’s career (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935889300/essential-mitch-the-early-years)
• “1619” a Podcast series from The New York Times on the foundation of slavery that built the United States of America(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html)
• “Slow Burn” a Podcast series from Slate Media-- features seasons on The Iraq War, the Clinton Impeachment, the Nixon Impeachment, and David Duke’s presidential run(https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s5/road-to-the-iraq-war)
• "Nice White Parents" a 5 part Podcast series from The New York Times on building a better school system, and what gets in the way (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html)
• In Response to Executive Order 9066: A Call to Action(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFuGFyPijeyGWnu8FqzLU-VI2ZQVFKMCY0y5U2zfG0w/edit)
• Teaching Hard History: A Framework for teaching American Slavery(https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/Teaching-Hard-History-American-Slavery-6-12-Framework.pdf)
• National Endowment for the Humanities: Student Civil Rights Activities(https://edsitement.neh.gov/student-activities/civil-rights-movements-late-20th-century)
• “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” by Lawrence Wright(http://www.lawrencewright.com/books/)
• “An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz(https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-us/)
• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" By Beverly Daniel Tatum(https://www.beverlydanieltatum.com/published-works/)
• "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander(https://newjimcrow.com/)
• "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education" By Chris Emdin(https://chrisemdin.com/product/for-white-folks-who-teach-in-the-hood-and-the-rest-of-yall-too-reality-pedagogy-and-urban-education/)
• "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James W. Loewen(https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/)
• The Wave 1981: a classroom social experiment on fascism (https://www.thewavehome.com/)
• The Two Killings of Sam Cooke(https://www.netflix.com/title/80191045)
• 13th(http://www.avaduvernay.com/13th)
• CNN Decades Series
• The Sixties(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-sixties)
• The Seventies(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-seventies)
• The Eighties(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-eighties)
• The Nineties(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-nineties)
• The 2000's(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-2000s-original-series)
• Inside Job: a documentary on the Great Recession(https://www.netflix.com/title/70139555)
• An Inconvenient Truth: a documentary on the Climate Crisis(https://www.algore.com/library/an-inconvenient-truth-dvd)
• From PBS: Rise! The Road to Civil Rights (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/rise-the-road-to-civil-rights-1940-1968/)
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