u.s. history

"This video-based lesson introduces students in grades 5-8 to what some historians call America's second war for independence - The War of 1812...Using a semi-documentary format, the War's soldiers and politicians describe their roles in the conflict and explain how the war changed American society forever. Illustrative graphics and pictures enhance this presentation of the war, its causes and its consequences." - Teacher's guide.

The editor's introduction provides an overview of the Republic of Texas and highlights the central themes in the history of that blood-bought nation. The readings that follow are eye-witness accounts from participants in many of the events that shaped a decade of sovereignty. Presidents, homemakers, soldiers, and slaves relate an all too human story of a time and place unique in the annals of American history.

This anthology looks at the founding of twenty-one California missions, the controversial relationship between the missionaries and the neophytes, and the impact of Spanish architecture and daily lifestyles at the missions on California.

Students learn of the Return to Normalcy; automobile culture; flappers and the Revolution in Manners and Morals; the consumer revolution and rise of advertising; motion pictures; the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age; social polarization; Prohibition; rebirth of the KKK; the Scopes Trial; the Golden Age of sports.