Posted on 07/29/2012 6:33:45 PM PDT by Windcatcher
Someone I know is going to be working as a teacher's assistant in a high-school U.S. History class. She is wondering if there are some good online sources that she can use that haven't been twisted by people with a leftist agenda. Would anyone be able to point me to some?
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Just one of a “ton of old sources”: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, Alexis de Tocqueville. Your recommendations are spot on.
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I just provided this link in another post but it should be useful to you as well, see #8.Explaining Your Beliefs in an Academic Sphere: Scholarly Sources
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2898746/posts
A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to the War on Terror
We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
The American Classic Series by Andrew Allison on many of the first Presidents.
American History & Life and Historical Abstracts are available through EBSCO, a subscription database that can be accessed through academic and many public libraries. Some libraries will allow you to access such databases from home if you have a library card.
Other subscription databases that might be useful are The American Civil War Letters and Diaries and Proquest's historical newspapers. Several universities and large public libraries subscribe to some of these newspapers. My Palos Verdes public library card allows me to access the Los Angeles Times from the beginning to the present in the form of PDF articles. Other libraries carry the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and other papers. A list of databases available to patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library is available here Many other large public libraries subscribe to these databases.
Another good collection of online historical resources can be found at the American Memory website maintained by the Library of Congress, available here.
Other sites that might be of interest include Eyewitness to History and American Journeys.
I hope you find my suggestions useful.
Another addition to this list: The Politically Incorrect Guides, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer
www.wallbuilders.com
I just revisited the Wall Builders website.
It is a smorgasbord of everything in U.S History, especially of the Founding Era and even more recent.
Check it out.
www.wallbuilders.com
For course materials which are based on the founding documents and ideas, visit "Constituting America," the organization Janine Turner is associated with, or "Bill of Rights Institute". Both provide course materials online, as well as contests, materials, etc. for use in the home and school.
Also recommend a 292-page book entitled, "Our Ageless Constitution," published in the Bicentennial Year of the Constitution, 1987, and recently reprinted which traces ideas and principles underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in an easy-to-read, illustrated format, using the Founders' own words. In Part V of that volume, constitutional scholars traced, one-by-one, the methods by which we have strayed from the Founders' principles. It includes many copies of original writings and a "Notable Quotations" section, alphabetized by subject matter.
For a book,I’d go with Paul Johnson’s “A History of the American People”.
Federalist Papers:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1404/1404-h/1404-h.htm
Democracy in America(1):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm
Democracy in America(2):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.htm
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go to a master historian who loves this country
go to Amazon and put in ‘Newt Gingrich” - a plethors of history books on our country - and they are REAL history
plethora -
Thanks for the links. I lost my copy of the Federalist Papers. Great web site.
Thank you! Great Thread. BFL
Yes, it is. I use it often. Lots of classic literature available. Much of it in HTML format with images from book.
Great source - thanks for the link!
In addition to our already mentioned “Patriot’s History of the United States,” see our companion volume, “A Patriot’s History Reader’” which contains some 60 documents in American history, including a few important but not obvious, documents.
< p> By the way, in October the first volume of our two volume series, “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World,” will come out.
wow. this is a great thread with terrific links. thank you!
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