Research Sites: 1. Reagan Conservatism: Reagan, PBS – Major Speeches – NY Times Articles – Presidential Library 2. The Iran-Contra Affair: Reagan, PBS, Iran Contra – Iran/Contra from the National Security Archive – The Secret Government (Iran/Contra Affair) Video – Time: The US and Iran 3. US/Soviet Relations: 4. Reaganomics 5. Woman’s Rights 6. Environmentalism [...]

Welcome to your first Mock Trial in AP US History.  Since we’ve recently covered the chapter on World War II, we are going to debate the questions related to the necessity and decision to drop the atom bomb on the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the questions concerning war crimes and the [...]

OK.  Here’s the idea: I show documentaries after school and you watch them.  We discuss, learn, and you blog your comments, questions and reviews.  I count it as extra credit and you get more and more prepared for the AP exam.  What do you think?  Some are long and might have to be edited for [...]

Studs Terkel is one of America’s greatest treasures: a person who devoted their entire life to recording and retelling the stories of common people who lives encounter extraordinary events and issues.  Perhaps one of Terkel’s greatest works is Hard Times, a collection of oral histories from the Great Depression. Here in AP US History, we [...]

Want some extra credit? Of course you do! All you have to do is use conversational 1920′s slang for the rest of the week (yes, only appropriate slang). Here are some links that you might find interesting. By the way, the history of this country is not rooted in politics and economics alone. The study [...]

Students have been learning about the Great War this week. In class today, they will read and highlight Part II – Securing the Peace, from the Choices Program packet on the League of Nations debate. Copies will be available in class. Students will then read President Wilson’s Fourteen Points. Copies will also be available in [...]

Here’s the link to the PDF Guide for the assignment. On the computers in the classroom, right click, then go to ‘save target as’, save it, and then open the document.

Using the text blogs as examples, you will write your own blog post for one of the readings below (excluding those in italics).  Your goal is to summarize your analysis of the text sections, according to the format established in the first text blogs.  Your goal is not to summarize the section.  There’s not enough [...]

Welcome to the first podcast project for your class.  In case you didn’t know, podcasts are either audio or video files (mostly mp3′s) that are created to serve a variety of functions.  Some are about news, sports, entertainment, and culture, but ours are about history.  Usually podcasts are updated regularly through a RSS or iTunes [...]

Week 1 – First Settlements You are an Aztec warrior.  Write a prayer song to your gods concerning the Spanish invasion. You are a Spanish Conquistador.  Confess your role in an Incan slaughter to a Spanish priest. You are English newspaper editor.  Write an obituary for your readers about Pocahontas after her death in England. [...]