Historical+Documents

Collection of Historical Documents and Articles used in TAH Language and Literacy and TAH Media and Literacy


 * Colonial Period **



Documents: n Edward Johnson Tells How God and Trade Made New England Prosper, 1654 n Dr. Alexander Hamilton Depicts the Material Acquisitions of Northern Colonists, 1744 Alan Singer slavery in NY Curriculum [|http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_] [|singer/slavery.html]

NY Mercury Newspaper

**American Revolution**




 * Emerging Nation **

Documents: n Excerpt from William Chambers, n George Foster, “The Eating Houses”

Link to MCNY/NYPL Teacher guide for MCNY exhibit; The Greatest Grid

//[|http://www.nydivided.org/index.php]// Link to The N-Y Historical two Exhibits about Slavery in New York. Each one contains PDF downloads of their Resource Binders
 * Civil War **

[] Link To ASHP's Five Points: New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850's

[|Lincoln and New York-] New York Historical Online exhibit and resouorces

Documents: n “Immigrants Tell About their Experiences in America” n “Southern African A mericans Discuss the Advantages of Moving to Northern Cities, 1917”
 * The Melting Pot **


 * A Consuming Nation **


 * Coney Island Images: [|dreamlandfromchutesatnight.jpg] [|dreamlandtowernight.jpg] [|luna_chutes_night.jpg] [|parachute_jump.jpg] [|steeple_chase_new.jpg] [[image:tasell/LunaPark.jpg]] **


 * Feedomland! The Bronx's Greatest Amusement Park: **

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 * American Imperialism 1898-1917 **
 * Savage Acts Study Guide ; Created by The American Social History Project, part of the CUNY Grad Center. It covers many of the topics discussed in our first meeting with Dr. Latham. It is a good Source for classroom readings.On the site you can click on the **printable version**:**
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William McKinley, “War Message,” 1898 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/mkinly2.htm Albert Beveridge in Support of American Imperialism, 1900 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ajb72.htm Anti-Imperialist League Platform, 1899 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899antiimp.html The Platt Amendment, 1903 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/platt.htm

=**New Deal **= 1) William Leuchtenburg, “The Achievement of the New Deal,” in Harvard Sitkoff, ed., __Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated__ (New York: Knopf, 1985).  [|Lechentburgndeal1.pdf]

Supporting Historical Documents to be discussed in Workshop: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, September 1934 [] Huey Long, Radio Address, 1935 [] Letters from Children to Eleanor Roosevelt [] [] [|http://newdeal.feri.org/ELEANOR/alc0138.htm]

Professor O'Donnell's Activity on the Bonus Marchers Letter's to FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt:


 * Cold War **

Melvyn P. Leffler, __The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953__ (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994), pages 33-63.

[|Leffler.PDF]

George F. Kennan, “The Long Telegram,” Excerpts, Feb. 1946 [] The Truman Doctrine, March 1947 [] Henry Wallace, Speech on the Truman Doctrine, March 1947 [] Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 []

Ella Baker, “Bigger than a Hamburger,” 1960 []
 * Civil Rights **

[|Core Rules for Action.pdf]

John Lewis, March on Washington Speech, 1963 []

[|SNCC Mississippi Project Brochure.pdf]

__Articles and Documents for Teachers:__ Bruce J. Schulman, __Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism__ (Boston: Bedford, 1995), pages 125-154. [|LBJ Vietnam.PDF] Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Speech, June 4, 1965: [] Lyndon Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Speech, April 7, 1965: [] SNCC Position Paper on the Vietnam War, 1966: [] Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” 1967 [|King, Beyond_Vietnam.pdf]
 * Lyndon Johnson **