Do you look for FREE video that is on point and interesting? Are you having difficulty finding appropriate ideas to make the constitution real for your students [the BIll of Rights is easy, but the Constitution ......]? I have one set each of the following materials, which are also available via streaming video:
The Constitution: That Delicate Balance which has people having debates on controversial constitutional issues like school prayer, the right to die, immigration reform, and many other topics. http://www.learner.org/resources/series72.html
Democracy in America has 15 half hour videos, and on-line materials. It covers all kinds of issues related to how democracy works including Civil Liberties, the modern presidency, Federalism: US v the States and more. http://www.learner.org/courses/democracyinamerica/dia_1/dia_1_topic.html
Ethics in America I and II are hypothetical cases discussed using the Socratic method. Subjects include National Security and the News; Under Orders, Under Fire; Does Doctor Know Best? and others that are equally interesting. There is also information available on the web: http://www.learner.org/resources/series81.html is Ethics in America and
http://www.learner.org/resources/series207.html is Ethics II.
The website for Annenberg Media is http://www.learner.org/# . Enjoy yourselves!
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Favorite History Books
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
- American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
- American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
- Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
- Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
- Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
- Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
- Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
- Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
- The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
