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Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Great Depression



Did you know that today is the anniversary of "Black Tuesday,"  the day known as the start of the Great Depression?  If you are teaching this subject, a good site for photos is the Library of Congress American Memory site http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html . Because This site contains government pictures, so there are no copyright issues [I know you follow the rules to avoid copyright infringement, right?]. There are other great sites listed on www.google.com/images.

  New York City
Guilford County, NC



One of my favorite sites for information is Stan Schultz's lecture series. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture18.html  Other sites are http://ezinearticles.com/?1929-Vs-2009---Will-We-Relive-the-Great-Depression?&id=2081891 &  http://ezinearticles.com/?Excessive-Leverage-Caused-1929-Stock-Market-Crash-and-2008-Economic-Collapse&id=2715175 . They are good for prompting conversation.  Let me know of other resources so they can be added to our list.




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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