Library of Congress (loc.gov) and National Archives (archives.gov). Census
data by county in very usable form is at the Fisher Library of the University of
Virginia (fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/listcensus/ ). Data for towns
is at the U.S. Census
(census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm).Teachers should sign up for
h-high-s and other discussion lists (free) at h-net.org. When history makes
news, it is summarized at History News Network (hnn.us/), which anyone can
sign up for. Students need good vetted sites, arranged by topic area (e.g.,
women’s history, Civil War, etc.). There are many, including
besthistorysites.net. A host of video and film resources exist, from feature
films such as Glory and Missing to PBS documentaries such as The Civil War,
Eyes on the Prize, and Remember My Lai (PBS Frontline, 1-800-328-7271).
As they use videos, teachers may want to consider the points in Linda
Christensen’s “Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us,” Rethinking Schools 5, no.
4 (5/1991): 1, 15-16.
14 Glenn Whitman gets his students doing local history and explains how in
Dialogue with the Past (Lanham, MD: Alta Mira, 2004).
15 Rural Organizing and Cultural Center, Minds Stayed on Freedom (Boulder,
CO: Westview, 1992). See also C. L. Lord, Teaching History with Community
Resources (New York: Teachers College Press, 1967).
16 Mark Hilgendorf, ed., Forgotten Voices in American History (available
from Milton Academy, 170 Centre St., Milton, MA, 02186).
17 Shirley Engle tells how some of these questions, based on work by Alfred
North Whitehead, were the basis of an innovation in social studies teaching,
the “Indiana experiment.” See “Late Night Thoughts About the New Social
Studies,” Social Education 50, no. 1 (1/1986): 21.
18 We did this in Chapter 6 when considering Abraham Lincoln’s Greeley
letter.
19 James Axtell, “Forked Tongues: Moral Judgments in Indian History,” AHA
Perspectives 25, no. 2 (2/1987): 10.
20 Lee Jones, “Textbooks: A Change of View,” Austin Star-Telegram, 10/20/
1985.
21 Michael Wallace, “The Politics of Public History,” in Jo Blatti, ed., Past
Meets Present (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987), 42-43.