Equipment/Manipulative
Data Projector
Computer and Internet Access
“Freedom Tracking Notebook”
Markers
Poster Paper
Screen
Student Resource
Births in the United States 1930-2007. Geography.About.com. 2 October 2015 http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom_2.htm
Cartoon Analysis Sheet. National Archives and Records Administration. 2 October 2015 http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/cartoon_analysis_worksheet.pdf
“A Changing America: Automobiles, Suburbia, and Civil Rights,” from Looking Toward the Future: The Kennedy Generation located at http://player.discoveryeducation.com 2 October 2015
Churchill, Winston S. "Iron Curtain Speech." Fulton, MO. 5 Mar. 1946. Internet Modern HIstory Sourcebook. Fordham University. 2 October 2015 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
"Declaration of Conscience" by Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Statement of Seven Senators, June 1, 1950, Congressional Record, 82nd Congress. 1st Session, in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Roger Burns, Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792–1974 (New York: Chelsea House, 1963), 84–88. Found at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459 2 October 2015.
“Enemies from Within: Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Accusations of Disloyalty.” History Matters. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
GI Bill of Rights. US Department of Veteran Affairs. 2 October 2015 http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/history.htm
*Hales, Peter B. Levittown: Documents of an Ideal Suburb. University of Illinois at Chicago. 3 May 2010
“Introduction to Anti-Communism in America.” Rutgers University. 3 May 2010
“John F. Kennedy in History: Election of 1960.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. 2 October 2015 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Campaign+of+1960.htm
*Lee, Robert V. "Newspapers: The Pittsburgh Courier." PBS.org. PBS. 2 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html
*McCarthy, Joseph R. "Enemies from Within." U.S. Senate, State Department Loyalty Investigation Committee on Foreign Relations, 81st Congress, Washington, D.C. 11 Feb. 1950. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
“NSC-68, 1950.” U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. 2 October 2015 http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/NSC68
“Origins of the Korean War.” From Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (The Penguin Press, 2005), pp. 40-46, as reprinted at 2 October 2015 http://warchronicle.com/korea/origin_war.htm
“Paul Robeson and the Freedom Train.” Digital Archives of New Jersey History. Rutgers University. 3 May 2010
“Pop Goes the Culture as the Culture Goes Pop.” 2 October 2015 http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/031001/031001stephenfifties.html
Transportation in Rural America. Farming in the 1950s & 60s. Living History Farm. 2 October 2015 http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe50s/life_14.html
US Urbanized Area Growth: 1950-1990, Central Cities & Suburbs
33 Individual Urbanized Area Charts. Demographia. 2 October 2015 http://www.publicpurpose.com/dm-uacht.htm
U.S. Senate, State Department Loyalty Investigation Committee on Foreign Relations, 81st Congress; Joseph McCarthy to President Harry Truman February 11, 1950, Congressional Record, 81st Congress.
“You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves”: Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC. History Matters. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440iHH
*“Testimony of Paul Robeson: ‘You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves.’” Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of U.S. Passports, 84th Congress, Part 3, 12 June 1956. in Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968, Eric Bentley, ed. New York: Viking Press, 1971, 770. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440
Teacher Resource
Alliance for Progress. All Experts Encyclopedia. 2 October 2015 http://en.allexperts.com/e/a/al/alliance_for_progress.htm
*Chase, Margaret. "“National Suicide”: Margaret Chase Smith and Six Republican Senators Speak Out Against Joseph McCarthy’s Attack on “Individual Freedom”." History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. 1 June 1950. Center for History and New Media. George Mason University. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459
The Cuban Missile Crisis. US Department of State. 4 May 2010
Drake, Frederick D. and Sarah Drake Brown. A Systematic Approach to Improve Students’ Historical Thinking. The History Teacher. 2 October 2015 http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/36.4/drake.html
“George Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram.’” Feb. 22, 1946. National Security Archives. George Washington University. 2 October 2015 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm
*"Happy Days." The Internet Movie Database. 1974. 2 October 2015 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/videosites
*Hoskins, Samuel P. "“The Right to Housing Is a Civil Right Due Without Discrimination”: Racial Bias in Public and Private Housing." History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. 14 Nov. 1947. Center for History and New Media. George Mason University. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6900
JFK in History: The Bay of Pigs. John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. 4 May 2010
JFK in History: The Cold War in Berlin. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. 4 May 2010
JFK in History: Peace Corps. JFK Presidential Library and Museum. 4 May 2010
JFK in History: The Space Program. JFK Presidential Library and Museum. 4 May 2010
*Lee, Robert V. "Newspapers: The Pittsburgh Courier." PBS.org. PBS. 2 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html
Levittown, PA. Youtube. 2 October 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJMez9vkrw
*McCarthy, Joseph R. "Enemies from Within." U.S. Senate, State Department Loyalty Investigation Committee on Foreign Relations, 81st Congress, Washington, D.C. 11 Feb. 1950. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
Oakland Schools Teaching Research Writing Website: Skills Progression & Lessons 2 October 2015 http://www.osteachingresearchwriting.org/
“Richard Nixon’s Sweaty Debate.” Kennedy-Nixon Debates. United Streaming 2 October 2015 http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
Soviet Propaganda Against the USA. English Russia. 2 October 2015 http://englishrussia.com/?p=312
*“Testimony of Paul Robeson: ‘You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves.’” Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of the Unauthorized Use of U.S. Passports, 84th Congress, Part 3, 12 June 1956. in Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968, Eric Bentley, ed. New York: Viking Press, 1971, 770. 2 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440
Wineburg, Sam. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
Resources for Further Professional Knowledge
Borstelmann, Thomas, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Brand, H.W. The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Random House, 2004.
Evans, Sara M. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. New York: The Free Press, 2003.
Feis, Herbert. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The Wars They Waged and the Peace They Sought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.
---. From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York: Norton, 1970
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.
Fousek, John. To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Naftali, Timothy. "One Hell of a Gamble": Krushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
---. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
---. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Gardner, Lloyd, Arthur Schlesinger, Hans Morgenthau. The Origins of the Cold War. Waltham, MA: Ginn-Blaisdell, 1970.
Griffith, Robert, Paula Baker, and Thomas Paterson. Major Problems In American History Since 1945: Documents and Essays. 2nd ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Halle, Louis. The Cold War as History. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Journal of Cold War Studies. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harvard University. 2 October 2015 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/journal.htm
LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1992. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
- - -. America, Russia, and the Cold War: 1945-2006. 10th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.
- - -.The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, Since 1896.New York: WW Norton, Co., 1994.
Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s. University of Pennsylvania. 2 October 2015 http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
The Origins of the Cold War. Virginia Center for Digital History. Miller Center for Public Affairs. University of Virginia. 2 October 2015 http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/solguide/VUS12/essay12b.html
Tyler May, Elaine. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War. New York: Basic Books, 1990.