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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Annenberg Media Resources Available


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!

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

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