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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction to the First Edition | |
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| Introduction to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction to the Third Edition | |
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| Exploration of the New World | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Venturing into the Unknown | |
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| Selected Explorers | |
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| We Are All Explorers | |
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| Rate the Mate | |
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| Does the End Justify the Means? | |
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| What Made Them Tick? | |
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| What Would You Think? | |
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| Skippers' Yarns | |
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| If Columbus Had Stayed Home | |
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| The Colonists | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Who Came and Why? | |
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| New England Colonies | |
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| Middle Colonies | |
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| Southern Colonies | |
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| The Colonial Frontier | |
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| Writing the Mayflower Compact | |
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| Town Meeting in Plymouth | |
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| Colonial Norms and Values | |
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| Grain Buffet | |
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| Colonial Survival Stories | |
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| Interviewing the Colonists | |
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| Panel of Experts | |
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| Rewriting History | |
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| The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Events Leading to the Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The War | |
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| Culminating Questions about the American Revolution | |
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| Choosing Independence, Part 1 | |
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| Choosing Independence, Part 2 | |
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| Choosing Independence, Part 3 | |
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| Choosing Independence, Part 4 | |
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| Taking a Stand | |
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| How Angry Would You Get? | |
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| Read the Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Constitution and the Bill of Rights | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Articles of Confederation | |
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| Constitutional Convention and Ratification | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Ready for Change | |
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| A New Constitution | |
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| How Good Are You at Compromising? | |
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| Debates | |
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| Happy Birthday, Constitution | |
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| Rights and Responsibilities | |
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| Establishing the New Nation | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| George Washington's Term of Office | |
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| Events under the John Adams Administration | |
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| Thomas Jefferson's Administration | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine | |
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| Selecting a Cabinet | |
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| Upon His Retirement | |
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| Improvisations | |
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| Debates | |
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| Political Party Campaign | |
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| What Would You Do? How Would You Feel? | |
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| Using Power | |
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| Expansion and the Frontier | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Manifest Destiny and the Pioneer Spirit | |
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| The Acquisition of New Territories | |
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| Pioneer Life | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| What Can You Do? | |
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| Where Lies the Truth? | |
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| What Would They Say? | |
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| The Trail of Tears | |
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| Weighing What to Take | |
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| Choices | |
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| Starting Over | |
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| Survival Manual | |
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| Law Enforcers versus Lawbreakers | |
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| Vigilante Justice | |
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| Tall Tales | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| The Slave Experience | |
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| Differences That Grew between the North and the South | |
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| Events That Led to the Civil War | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Spoon Fashion | |
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| Classroom Writing | |
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| Could You Be an Abolitionist? | |
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| How Important Is Freedom to You? | |
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| The Webster-Hayne Debate | |
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| Stagecoach Quartet | |
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| The Dred Scott Decision | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debate | |
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| Secession | |
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| Reading Aloud | |
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| Point of View Questionnaire | |
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| Writing about Slavery | |
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| Using Movies in Class | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Political Issues | |
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| Social Issues | |
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| Reflections on the War | |
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| How to Treat the South | |
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| Would Things Be Different If ...? | |
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| Adjusting to Change | |
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| On Fear | |
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| Interviewing the People | |
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| "O Captain! My Captain!" | |
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| Life Across the United States, 1865-1900 | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Innovations That Changed American Life, 1865-1900 | |
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| Rural Life, 1865-1900 | |
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| Life in the Cities, 1865-1900 | |
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| Time | |
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| Necessity and Inventions | |
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| What's Left to Invent? | |
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| Progress or Problem? | |
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| "Modern" Round Robin | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Mass Production and the Factory System | |
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| The Growth of Corporations | |
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| Labor Unions | |
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| Working on an Assembly Line | |
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| Efficiency Experts | |
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| How Strikes Affect People's Lives | |
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| What Will You Do? | |
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| Deciding on Demands | |
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| Business Ethics | |
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| Union versus Management | |
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| Fair and Reasonable | |
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| Rating the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Why and How Immigrants Came to the United States | |
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| The Immigrant Experience in the United States | |
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| Laws Affecting Immigrants | |
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| Freestyle Writing | |
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| Role-Playing | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| A New Start | |
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| Illegal Aliens | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Discussing Feelings | |
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| Multiple-Choice Exercise-Problems of Immigrants | |
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| A Multicultural Class | |
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| Debates Dealing with Immigration Today | |
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| Images of Immigration | |
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| Culminating Activity-International Fair | |
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| The United States Becomes a World Power | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| Panama Canal | |
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| Steps into World Involvement | |
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| World War I | |
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| Foreign Policy Hearings | |
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| What Is Your Foreign Policy? | |
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| Find the Facts | |
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| Civilians at War | |
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| If We Had Stayed Home | |
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| The Twenties | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Why the Twenties Roared | |
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| The Other Side of the Twenties | |
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| Prohibition | |
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| The Stock Market Crash | |
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| History Repeats Itself | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Time Capsule | |
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| Seeing the Opposite Point of View | |
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| Roundtable Discussion about Prohibition | |
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| You Are the Jury | |
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| Investing in the Stock Market | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Effects on People | |
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| The New Deal | |
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| Continue the Story | |
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| How Would You Feel if ...? | |
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| Meeting with President Hoover | |
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| Experiencing the Depression | |
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| Viewing Pictures | |
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| Town Meeting | |
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| New Deal Hit Parade | |
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| World War II | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Events That Led to Our Involvement in the War | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| Overseas | |
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| Japanese Internment Camps | |
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| The End of the War | |
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| Group Decision Making | |
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| Reaction Register | |
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| Panel Discussion on Alternatives | |
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| Public Service Advertising Campaign | |
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| Dear Mr. President | |
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| Election Campaign of Roosevelt versus Dewey | |
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| Hiroshima No Pika | |
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| The Postwar Years, 1945-1959 | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Return to Peacetime | |
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| Culture during the Fifties | |
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| Civil Rights during the Fifties | |
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| Fear of Communism | |
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| Foreign Affairs | |
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| Gl Bill of Rights | |
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| Congressional Committees | |
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| NATO Debate | |
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| Mediation | |
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| Fallout-Shelter Decisions | |
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| Conforming | |
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| Debates | |
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| The Fifties Jukebox | |
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| To Confess or Not to Confess | |
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| Culminating Activity-The Dinner Party | |
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| The Sixties | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Moving into the Sixties | |
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| The Kennedy Years | |
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| The Johnson Years: Domestic Accomplishments | |
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| Civil Rights in the Sixties | |
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| Vietnam: A War at Home and Abroad | |
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| The Space Program | |
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| How Life Changed | |
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| Moving into the Sixties | |
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| "Ask Not...." | |
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| A Great Society | |
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| Checklist for a Great Society | |
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| Stuck in an Elevator | |
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| How Far Would You Go? | |
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| "Sixties-In" | |
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| The Seventies | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Vietnam Continued: A War at Home and Abroad | |
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| Social Issues and Movements | |
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| Nixon's Presidency and Watergate | |
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| The Carter Presidency | |
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| Trial of Lieutenant William Calley | |
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| Sexual Stereotypes | |
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| Debates on Issues of the Seventies | |
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| Reverse Discrimination? | |
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| Identifying Feelings | |
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| Multicultural Multimedia Celebration | |
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| The Eighties and Nineties: Ending the Twentieth Century | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Events at Home | |
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| Iran-Contra | |
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| The Persian Gulf War | |
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| A Question of Ethics | |
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| Independent Decision Making | |
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| What's Wrong Here? | |
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| Return of the Hostages | |
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| Columbine-Never Again! | |
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| I Didn't Know That! | |
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| Taking Responsibility | |
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| Facing the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Project List | |
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| Homework Assignments | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| New Technology | |
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| Economic Challenges | |
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| Health Issues | |
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| Protecting the Environment | |
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| Social Issues | |
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| Political Issues | |
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| 9/11 Remembrances | |
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| Developing Foreign Policy | |
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| Fix It | |
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| Is This Fair? | |
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| Wireless New World | |
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| What Can You Do about It? | |
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| Burning CDs | |
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| Protecting the Environment | |
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| Help Wanted-A TV Program | |
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| New Age Family | |
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| Classroom Visit | |
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| Child Labor | |
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| Interviewing the Experts | |
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| Interaction with Senior Citizens | |
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| Who Gets the Heart Transplant? | |
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| Advice for Future Generations | |
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| Difficult to Resolve | |
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| Social Action Groups | |
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| Where Should the Money Go? | |
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| Wish List for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Current Events | |
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| Expressing Opinions | |
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| Cooperative Learning | |
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| News Broadcast | |
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| Classroom Writing | |
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| Political Cartoons | |
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| Skill Honing | |
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| Debate | |
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| News as Research | |
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| Know Your Newspaper | |
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| Term Papers | |
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| Choosing an Appropriate Topic | |
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| Locating Information | |
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| Writing an Outline | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Revising the Outline | |
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| Writing a Rough Draft | |
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| Writing the Final Draft | |
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| A Special Classroom Library: Beyond Reference | |
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| Introducing a Unit | |
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| Enhancing Lessons | |
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| Using Children's Picture Books | |
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| Independent Silent Reading | |
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| Presentations | |
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| Historical Magazines | |
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| Lending System | |
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| Guidelines for Book Reports Based on Historical Fiction | |
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| Guidelines for Book Reports Based on Biographies | |
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| Book List for U.S. History | |
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| Explorers | |
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| Early Colonial Life | |
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| American Revolution | |
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| Pioneers and Westward Expansion | |
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| Slavery and the Civil War | |
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| Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Industrial Revolution, Early Urban Life, and Labor | |
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| World War I | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| World War II | |
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| Civil and Constitutional Rights | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| The Nineties and into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Debates | |
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| About the Authors | |