Resources

Resources By Topic:

Sugar and the Modern World

Books for teachers
  • Sydney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Penguin, 1986)
  • Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 2006)
  • David Northrup, Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford Books, 2008)
  • Gary Okihiro, Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992)
  • Philip D. Curtain, The Rise and fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Websites
Books for young people (that use sugar and other commodities to tell broader historical stories)
  • Rachel Eagen, The Biography of Sugar (Crabtree Books, 2006)
  • C.J. Polin, The Story of Chocolate (D.K. Publishing, 2005)
  • Mark Kurlansky, The Cod's Tale (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001)
  • Mark Kurlansky, The Story of Salt (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006)
  • Margarita Engle, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt, 2006)
Films and music

Teaching the History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Books for teachers
  • Herbert Kohl, She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (New York: New Press, 2007)
  • Deborah Menkart, Alana Murray et al., eds., Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for Classrooms and Communities (Teaching for Change, 2004)
Websites
Books for young people
  • Russell Freedman, Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Holiday House, 2006)
  • Rosa Parks, I am Rosa Parks (Puffin Books, 1997)
  • Faith Ringgold, If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks (Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003)

Immigration

Books for teachers
  • Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, and Aliens in a New America (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003)
  • Eliazbeth Gaffney, Metropolis : A Novel (New York: Random House, 2005)
  • Carola Suarez-Orozco and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Children of Immigration (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Websites
Books for young people
  • Janet Bode, New Kids in Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic, 1989)

Resources for Teaching History and Social Studies to Young People

Elementary and K-12 Social Studies Methods

Books
  • Bruce Van Sledright, In Search of America's Past: Learning to Read History in Elementary School (New York: Teachers College Press, 2002)
  • Diane Skiffington Dickson, Dick Heyler et al., The Oral History Project: Connecting Students to their Community, Grades 4-8 (Heinemann, 2006)
  • Bernadette Anand, Michelle Fine, et. al., Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desegregation in Our Town: A Guide to Doing Oral History (New York: Teachers College Press, 2002)
  • Robert M. Levin, Insights into American History: Photographs as Documents (Pearson Education, 2004)

  • Zarnowski, Myra. (2003). History Makers: A Questioning Approach to Reading and Writing Biographies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Websites

Drama Pedagogies in the History Classroom

  • Anita Manley and Cecily O'Neill, Dreamseekers: Creative Approaches to the African American Heritage (New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1997)
  • Philip Taylor, Redcoats and Patriots: Reflective Practice in Drama and Social Studies (New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1998)
  • Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert, Drama Structures: A Practical Handbook for Teachers (New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1982)
  • Brian Edmiston and Jeffrey Wilhelm, Imagining to Learn: Inquiry, Ethics, and Integration Through Drama. (New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1998)

Resources that address integrated history and literacy instruction

Articles
  • Daniel Shepardson and Susan Brit, "Children's Science Journals," Science and Children, February, 1997.
Websites

Understanding By Design

  • Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design. (ASCD, 2005).

Other Websites with good primary sources

Magazines, journals and professional associations