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Bibliography Generated from Presenter and Participant Commentary

2004 NEH Summer Institute for Teachers

Communal Societies

Don Pitzer, America’s Communal Utopias (c. 2000)

Mark Holloway, Heavens on Earth (c. 1960)

Karl Arndt, wrote 10-11 books on the Harmonists

African American Colonial (and general) Experience

Joe Trotter, The African American Experience from Colonial America to the Present (c. 2001)

Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (197?)

Examines Virginia as a lens on the racialization of slavery in America – 2-3 great chapters on Bacon’s Rebellion

Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans

(History of early black music)

Dena Epstern, Simple Tunes and Spirituals

(Document based history of music and African Americans in North America)

Robin D.G. Kelley, ed. A History of African Americans (2001?)

James and Lois Horton, In Hope of Liberty

(Examines Northern Free Blacks in antebellum America)

On Slave Rebellions:

James Silbury, Ploughshares into Swords (on Gabriel’s Rebellion planned for 1800 in VA)

David Robertson, Denmark Vesey (on 1822 planned uprising in SC)

Howard Jones, The Mutiny on the Amistad (on the 1839-42 events)

American Revolution

Ray Raphael, A People’s History of the American Revolution (2001?)

Phillip Hoose, We Were There, Too! Young People in US History (2001)

Westward Migration:

Kim Gruenwald, River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850)

Robert Hine and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000)

Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest:The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987)

Clyde Milner et al The Oxford History of the American West (1994)

Gregory Nobles, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1998)

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (1920)

Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune & None of My Own’: A History of the American West (1991)

Drew Caton & ____________, The Midwest and the Nation

Synthesis of the scholarship

Ronald Takaki

In a Different Mirror

From the Other Shore

Donald Woodson, Rivers of Empire (western history)

Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed

America, 2003


Scott Sandage: The Way West and the Gilded Age

Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom

Library of Congress, American Memory website

On technology and music

Robert C. Toll, The Entertainment Machine

Impact of technology on culture and entertainment

William Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life

The phonograph and popular culture 1890-1940

Come Josephine

Songs of invention

Christopher Small, Music, Society, and Education (1980s)

Mike Naragon & The Civil War

Teaching aids:

Peter Karsten, writes on comparative military history

On “The Great War” (PBS) – 5 min. segment on “The Speaking Cure” – Freudian and Jungian

Song: Kiss “A World without Heroes” on Music From the Elder

Series of albums: “The Sounds of History” – 1963 publication, 12 records in total – companion book with each album

Robert Utley, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation

Eric Foner:

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

One Kind of Freedom

David Potter, Impending Crisis

James McPherson, What They Fought For

Harlem Renaissance

CD: (From Lissa) Rhapsodies in Black America: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance www.rhino.com (compiled by Sharon Amus, 2000)

Smithsonian has a recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry

Labon Carrick Hill, Harlem Stomp: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance, 2003

Novel: Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (unsure if this is of this era…)

The Great Depression

Studs Terkel, Hard Times. Oral history of the Depression

Video: Brother Can Your Spare a Dime

With Bessie Smith, “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”

Maureen Greenwald-WWII

Posters: See Library of Congress website

Dorothy Sue Cobble Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the 20th Century

Challenges impressions of 1950s women and work – campaign for equal pay, child care centers, sick leave…

“Cartoons Go to War” (Laura S.) - 1995 – A & E 10092 (Teleduction Associates)

Suffrage

Susan Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood – on anti-suffragists in Massachusetts

From: http://creativefolk.com/equalityday.html

Songs of the Suffragettes Folkways Records #FH5281 http://www.si.edu/folkways/ Smithsonian-Folkways Records, 414 Hungerford, Suite 444, Rockford, MD 20850 301-443-2324. First recorded in the 1958 and reissued in 1995, with excellent liner notes about the women's suffrage movement.

Hurrah For Woman Suffrage! Cassette or CD, with notes/lyrics. The Homespun Singers. Miriam Reed Productions. P.O. Box 2781, Beverly Hills, CA 90213. miriam@miriamreed.com (917) 710-2354. Miriam Reed presents one-woman shows about early feminists, including Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This Cd or cassette (which is featured in the gift shop at the Seneca Falls National Historic Site) contains 17 suffrage-era songs performed by Homespun Singers. The songs date from 1840 to 1920, with simple, authentic arrangements your group can easily sing along with. A lyric sheet is also available. To order, or to learn more about Miriam Reed's performances, visit Miriam Reed Productions.

Wolff, Francie. Give the Ballot to the Mothers: Songs of the Suffragists. Denlinger's Publishers, LTD, Ozark Division, Springfield MO 1998. It's the first to publish songs AND their music together under one cover, and also includes color reproductions for some of the original sheet music covers. As if that weren't enough, there are also excellent historical notes for each song, and it has a spiral binding to make it easy to use as a songbook.

Also available is the excellent 30-minute documentary of the same title which was highly recommended by Library Journal. It is $35, or can be purchased along with the songbook for a total of $60. For further information contact Francie Wolff. Wolffwhispers; 1160 S. Maryland; Springfield, MO 65807. (phone/fax: 417-869-2666). Also available at http://www.thebookden.com/ by clicking on "women."

Suffragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement in America, 1795-1921, with Complete Lyrics Available at Amazon.com

E. Ann Kaplan, Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze

Alex Bloom – pop culture and Vietnam

Bruce Franklin

A number of books on Vietnam (MIA and POW included), science fiction, and prison life can be found at:

Chris Oppy, Working Class War

Tim O’Brien, (among eight or so he’s written)

If I Die in a Combat Zone, In The lake of the Woods, The Things They Carried

John Prine, “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore” from self-named album

Charlie McCollester - Steel Heritage in Pgh

John Herr, And the Wolf Finally Came

Bill Serin, Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Mill Town

Anne Feeney – musical rebel voices.

Barbara Tischler, Social Movements in the 1960s

Videos: Making Sense of the Sixties

6 part PBS series (c. 1991). We say “Seeds of the Sixties”

PBS The History of Rock-N-Roll

“No Vietnamese Ever Called me a Nigger”

“Berkeley in the Sixties” - segment of People’s Park

Additional ones mentioned by members etc.

“You Can’t Get There From here”

Laura S. and 1950s Public Service announcements on proper etiquette

Julian Madison: Forgotten Civil Rights…

Derrick Bell: (law prof at NYU)

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism – short stories

Jacquelyn Woodson (Terra offered – novelist for middle-school)

Writers on current black issues (and much more)

Tony Norman – Post-Gazette.com

Leonard Pitts – Miami Herald

Freedom is a Constant Struggle – songs of the Mississippi Freedom Summer

Oscar Brand.

The Songs of ’76. “the best book on songs of the revolution”

Victor Greene.

A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930.

He also shared photos of immigration purchased through the Smithsonian from their bicentennial celebration.

Martha (I think) also endorsed the Ellis Island website

bio of Foster…

Plus, see PBS website for American Experience video and site information.

New CD, Emerson wrote liner notes for: “Beautiful Dreamer: The Singing of Stephen Foster” (new interpretations of his songs) – American Roots Publishing

Ken Emerson, Doo Dah, Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Music (1997)

Michelle Shocked, “Arkansas Traveler”

From Deane (suggested titles on class and racial representation):

Dale Cockrell, Demons of Disorder (minstrel development in Atlantic roots of 18the)

Eric Lott, Love and Theft (duality in white use of black music)

William Mahar, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask(documents different kinds of minstrelcy in 19th and 20the)

Susan Keys:

Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America, 2002 (I found it at Half-Price Books for $6)

Participant Generated

On slang…

The Social Studies Teachers Book of Lists, Second Edition by Ronald L. Partin , Ronald L. Partin, January, 2003 ISBN: 0787965901

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

On phrases….

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

On Hip-Hop and more…

Paul Friedlander, A Social History of Rock-N-Roll (1996) – See Laura

Alex Ogg & David Upshal, The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap (1998) – see Jennifer

George Nelson – Hip Hop America (1998) – see Jennifer. Author too of The Death of Rhythm & Blues (described by Rolling Stone as the most gifted writer on Hip Hop)

Marlin Riggs, video “Black is Black Ain’t” – see Joanne

Greg Tate, Everything But the Burden (on what white people are taking from black culture)

Russell, Roberts. The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection (short book on intl trade)

Ron Hanson. The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford (fiction)

Todd Boyd. Young, Black Rich and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, The Hip Hop Invasion and the

Transformation of American Culture

NPR – List of “top” 100 songs in American history (and accompanying radio stories) - www.npr.org

Legal History – challenges in the Supreme Court

Peter Irons. The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (1988) – each chapter traces the experiences and issues of the case

A People’s History of the Supreme Court (1999) – narrative tracing the events behind and lives involved in famous – and some not so famous – cases

Joy Hakim. The History of Us (Alternative “text” of US History, done in about 10 volumes. Vivid pictures, anecdotal stories… Participant wrote it is “very readable and kid-friendly”)

Visual Understanding in Education - www.vue.org/ (Martha has used it)

Lessons geared toward elementary level, but I the curator at the Carnegie museum also told me about this and I found some great information on how to “read” painting and visual art for older students too.

Southern Poverty Law Center www.splcenter.org

Members receive Teaching Tolerance four times a year - which has great articles (student level reading) and tons of teaching ideas. Have your principal send in (on school stationary) a request for their many documentary films. Website also has great stuff on the Civil Rights Memorial and “Intelligence Watch” which traces hate groups in America.

“The Best of The Broadside Collection, 1962-1988” – book and 5 CD (89 songs) set on cultural critics from this era. Available from Syracuse Cultural Workers (www.syrculturalworlers.org) for $ 70

Suggested sites for rubrics…

http://www.rubrics.com/ or http://www.teach-nology.com/ - rubrics, lesson plans, etc.