Interview Project rubric
Ch. 15 - What is Freedom?: Reconstruction 1865-1877:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Andrew Johnson - The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has an extensive site about Johnson and his administration.
Freedmen's Bureau - An extensive site that provides useful information and helpful links. It details the Bureau's records and contains articles and genealogical information.
Freedmen's Bureau - The History Department at the University of Maryland at College Park maintains the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which provides articles, documents from the National Archives, a chronology of emancipation, and other useful primary and secondary resources.
KKK - Site for the PBS program The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.
Reconstruction - Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (documentary, PBS) This documentary provides some of the best coverage to date. The accompanying website provides more information including a timeline, episode guide, and links to the episodes.
Ch. 16 - America's Gilded Age 1870-1890:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Andrew Carnegie - The PBS series The American Experience, "The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie" chronicles the life of one of the most infamous of America's captains of industry. The site also provides timelines and articles.
Buffalo Tales: The Near-Extermination of the American Bison - The National Humanities Center offers an overview essay on the extermination of the bison and a range of resources, including primary sources.
California as I Saw It - Offers first-person narratives in the form of diaries, descriptive guidebooks, and reminiscence from 1849-1900.
Chief Joseph - Companion site to The West, an eight-part documentary series from PBS. Includes valuable resources, including a biography of Chief Joseph and cites a variety of his speeches.
Bonanza Farms - Provides more information on the phenomenon of bonanza farming and connects the practice with other important concepts of Great Plains history.
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912 - The National Humanities Center, Toolbox Library, shares art, documents, essays, and other resources about the era.
John D. Rockefeller - The American Experience film The Rockefellers covers the entire span of generations, but Volume 1 has useful information on the patriarch and his wife. The site also has a resource guide, articles, and primary sources.
The West - The West is an eight-part PBS documentary series. The site includes documentary materials, archival images and commentary, and links to background information and other resources.
Wounded Knee - The Wounded Knee Museum offers chronologies, biographies, links, resources, information about the Lakotas today, and a gripping audiovisual introduction.
Ch. 17 - Freedom's Boundaries, At Home and Abroad 1890-1900:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Black Perspectives - The Library of Congress has pamphlets, writings, etc. from Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and others.
Booker T. Washington - The Library of Congress contains a wide variety of digital resources on community leader Booker T. Washington.
The Chinese Experience - A four-volume program called Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. Also has resources, biographies, eyewitness accounts, timelines, etc.
Chinese-Americans - Resource list, including the FindLaw.com link that walks you through all of the early court rulings.
The Chinese Exclusion Act - (PBS, documentary) Provides supplementary information in primary documents and articles means to accompany the documentary.
The Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries - The National Humanities Center includes primary sources, questions, other online sources, etc. all related to the history of U.S. missionaries.
The People's Party & the Election of 1896 - This student-run Vassar College site includes numerous political cartoons, pictures, and information about the Populist Party and the 1896 campaigns.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - Homepage for the PBS series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Includes resources, biographies, primary documents, and timelines.
Hawaiian Annexation - The National Archives provides the 1897 petition by native Hawaiians against U.S. annexation of the islands. Also has resources and links to other documents.
Spanish-American War - The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History; select a war and enter an exhibit that includes a movie, resources, statistics, printables, maps, and timelines.
The World in 1898: The Spanish-American War - The Library of Congress includes primary source materials and other resources about the Spanish-American War.
Ch. 18 - The Progressive Era 1900-1916:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
The Progressive Era - Crash Course
Emma Goldman - From the Jewish Women's Archive, this collection includes primary sources on her life as well as modern articles about her role in U.S. history.
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 - This Library of Congress site documents the conservation movement and includes books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and movie footage.
Immigration to the U.S., 1789-1930 - This Harvard University site includes selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries that document voluntary immigration to the U.S. from 1789-1929.
Jane Addams and Hull House - The Jane Addams Hull House site offers useful links to related sites, information about Jane Addams and Hull House, and accounts of the urban experience of immigrants.
Theodore Roosevelt - A Library of Congress site that presents "Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film".
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Cornell University site includes primary documents and other sources on the Triangle Fire.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Companion site to the PBS American Experience documentary The Triangle Fire provides articles, timelines, film clips, and primary documents on the tragic event.
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 - Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, includes letters, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs, and unpublished manuscripts pertaining to the history of Hull House.
Votes for Women - A Library of Congress site that includes selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, including books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
William "Big Bill" Haywood - Articles, speeches, and other primary source documents by the famous Industrial Workers of the World organizer.
Woodrow Wilson - This PBS site includes the film Woodrow Wilson, from the American Experience series, as well as primary sources and articles.
Ch. 19 - Safe for Democracy: The U.S. and WWI 1916-1920:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition - The Brown University site includes broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets, and government publications that pertain to temperance and Prohibition.
League of Nations - This Northwestern University Library archived site includes background information on the League of Nations, its organizational structure, and links to additional material.
Marcus Garvey - This companion site to the PBS American Experience series Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind explores the rise and fall of this leader. It includes articles and his life and legacy.
Panama Canal - The Canal Museum is an impressive website dedicated to the history of the Panama Canal, with photos, documents, and other useful materials.
Red Scare - Provides links to a wealth of primary and secondary sources on the Red Scare.
World War I - The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History; select a war and enter an exhibit that includes a movie, resources, statistics, printables, maps, and timelines.
World War I Apocalypse - This multipart documentary series provides searing color images of the war.
They Shall Not Grow Old - Link to the trailer, if you would like to view the film in its entirety: Providing never-before-seen archival imagery to commemorate the anniversary of the end of the war.
Ch. 20 - From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties 1920-1932:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
ACLU - Official website of the American Civil Liberties Union, providing useful information about who they are, what they are doing today, and the various causes they have taken up in recent years.
Coolidge and Prosperity - This Library of Congress American Memory site discusses "Prosperity and Thrift" in the Coolidge era (1921-1929) through consumerism and advertising.
The Great Depression - Digitized collection of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Offers a variety of original documents, chronologies, and graphics to explore the Great Depression and the New Deal.
Harlem Renaissance: Visual Art - Primary images from Harlem Renaissance artists provided by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
The Scopes Trial - Monkey Trial - This PBS site provides access to the documentary, a timeline, and articles.
Ch. 21 - The New Deal 1932-1940:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
American from the Great Depression to World War II - This Library of Congress's American Memory site includes images from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War. The collection includes images of rural life during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl. and mobilization for WWII.
Civilian Conservation Corps - Photographs, documents, and records of the CCC.
Dorothea Lange Archive - The Oakland Museum of California houses Lange's personal archive and maintains the website with images and documents.
Eleanor Roosevelt - The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences maintains the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, which produces publications, online documents, case studies, and resources.
FDR's Fireside Chats - University of Virginia's Miller Center hosts the audio of many of FDR's fireside chats.
Flint Sit-Down Strike - Includes an overview of the Flint Sit-Down Strike. Audio files contain interview with former sit-downers speaking about their experience.
Huey Long - Site dedicated to everything Huey Long, including recordings of his speeches, images, letters, and timelines.
Scottsboro Boys - The University of Alabama maintains this site including primary sources, letters, and trial transcripts.
Social Security - This government site covers the history of Social Security along with chronologies and quizzes.
Ch. 22 - Fighting for the Four Freedoms: WWII 1941-1945:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Bracero Program - Site dedicated to collecting and making available oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the bracero program.
Japanese-American Internment - This PBS site, and home page for the documentary Children of the Camps, captures the experience of six Americans who were interned as children.
Japanese-American Internment - This Library of Congress's American Memory site is home to Ansel Adams's photographs of the internment at Manzanar.
Museum of Tolerance - The Museum of Tolerance focuses on the Holocaust and remembrance. The site provides a wealth of primary and secondary sources.
National World War II Museum - Considered the best museum in the nation on World War II, this site provides articles, profiles, statistics, and the ability to research a veteran of the war.
Patriotic Art - This slideshow includes a large collection of Arthur Szyk's art and cartoons of the World War II years.
Pearl Harbor National Memorial Hawaii - This National Park Service site is the authority on the history of the attack and the memorial. Includes links to further research and local World War II history.
Rosie the Riveter - This site honors those who "toiled in the arsenal of democracy". Includes information about the national park and memorial, as well as oral histories and useful links.
"Zoot Suit" Riots - The PBS American Experience series film The Zoot Suit Riots is about the 1942 Latino riots in LA. The site provides an article on the causes of the riots.
Ch. 23 - The U.S and the Cold War 1945-1953:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Civil Rights - Based on the book From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges (2000), this PBS one-hour documentary traces the relationship between black college students in the U.S. and German Jewish refugees. They come together as students and teachers at black universities in the Jim Crow American South during WW II and the Cold War.
Cold War International History Project - This site includes primary and secondary material on the history of the Cold War; includes new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side", the former communist world.
Frontline Diplomacy - This Library of Congress's American Memory site hosts the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and offered transcripts from American diplomats who served abroad during WW II and the Cold War.
Korean War - This National Archives site has links to a variety of resources on the military history of the Korean War.
Marshall Plan - This site summarizes the Marshall Plan and its origins, supplemented with useful pictures.
Nuclear Warfare - This site provides articles and timelines to accompany the PBS documentary Race for the Superbomb, on the U.S.-Soviet quest to detonate a hydrogen bomb during the Cold War.
President Harry Truman - From the PBS American Experience series, Truman's life is documented with a timeline and picture galleries.
Ch. 24 - An Affluent Society 1953-1960:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Little Rock Nine - This Library of Congress site houses the Little Rock Central High crisis collection and includes documents, oral interviews, and other sources.
Lynching - Provides images, documents, and articles regarding the history of lynching in the U.S.
Martin Luther King Jr. - This Stanford University site focuses on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and includes multimedia features.
The Murder of Emmett Till - This PBS American Experience series film is a documentary about the murder of Emmett Till.
President Eisenhower - Link to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Kansas, contains many documents and useful information and links about his administration.
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education - The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presented the exhibition Separate Is Not Equal. The exhibit is now closed, but the website includes an overview of the exhibit, primary documents, images, and other materials.
Sputnik - NASA has a colorful and user-friendly website on the first human-made satellite to orbit Earth in 1957. Includes a chronology, photo gallery, documents, and information about the U.S. space program.
Ch. 25 - The Sixties 1960-1968:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Free Speech Movement - This site chronicles the free speech movement at Berkeley, including oral histories and primary documents.
John F. Kennedy - The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum site offers many resources including access to speeches, photos, and documents.
Malcolm X - This site contains information pertaining to the life of Malcolm X, including chronologies, speeches, and photographs.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, the King Center advances the legacy of her late husband.
Two Days in October (Vietnam War) - PBS's American Experience series has created the documentary, Two Days in October, based on the book They Marched into Sunlight by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss. This site includes resources that pertain to the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.
Vietnam: A Television History - PBS's American Experience series has created Vietnam: A Television History, a video series. This landmark series provides a penetrating analysis of the decisions that led to war, and the combat that ensued. The site is full of resources pertaining to the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War Oral Histories - The Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University hosts this useful site to gather oral histories from the war. The site also has other links and information, but the audio oral histories are unique.
Ch. 26 - The Triumph of Conservatism 1969-1988:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Energy Crisis - PBS American Experience series documentary Meltdown at Three Mile Island ; site also includes a timeline, biographies, and maps.
Jimmy Carter - American Experience series from PBS film and an article on the life of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter - The official site for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum contains an education section of online resources.
Vietnam War Massacre - A PBS site for the documentary My Lai includes the film, articles, timelines, transcripts, images, and other information for the most notorious massacre of civilians during the war.
Vietnam War Pullout - The PBS site for the documentary Last Days of Vietnam provides clips of the film as well as the transcript and other resources.
Watergate - This National Archives site provides resources on the Watergate hearings.
Ch. 27 - From Triumph to Tragedy 1989-2001:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
William Jefferson Clinton - This focuses on a Frontline series episode and PBS documentary, The Clinton Years. It provides interviews, photos, and anecdotes as well as a New York Times collection of video audio clips, and transcript.
William Jefferson Clinton - This features aspects of the American Experience PBS series titled The Presidents, with a focus on the chapter on Clinton Articles, clips from the documentary, behind-the-scenes interviews, and a transcript.
The Gulf War - PBS's Frontline broadcast documentary on the Gulf War, includes a chronology, maps, and transcripts.
Is Walmart Good for America? - PBS's Frontline documentary on Walmart and globalization. Site includes other useful materials.
NAFTA - Details the history of the NAFTA agreement, with different perspectives.
Mass Incarceration - Includes an interview with Ava DuVernay regarding her award-winning 2016 documentary, 13th, which explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the U.S.
Ch. 28 - A New Century and New Crises:
Videos - Short clips summarizing/explaining many key topics from the chapter.
Divided States of America - Includes the four-hour, two-part PBS documentary on the partisanship that gridlocked Washington in the Obama era, and the polarized America that Trump inherited as president. Additional interviews included.
Hurricane Katrina - Provides the first episode of the documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Obama - PBS documentary Obama at War (2015).
Obama - PBS documentary Obama's Deal (2010), an examination of the health care debate.