American History: 2022-Present
(Honors and Standard)
U2's "Walk On": September 11th, 2001 Tribute
UNIT 1, AMERICAN FOUNDATIONS, ~1733-1789:
The Emergence of Colonial Government
John Green's Crash Course #5: "The Seven Years' War and the Great Awakening"
"The French and Indian War Changes the Fate of America"
John Green's Crash Course #7: "Who Won the American Revolution?"
America, The Story of Us: "Rebels" (Episode 1)
America, The Story of Us: "Revolution" (Episode 2)
John Green's Crash Course #8: "The Constitution, the Articles of Confederation and Federalism"
"John Adams": King George III's Response to the Olive Branch Petition (1775)
"The Patriot": South Carolina Assembly (American Rhetoric
Schoolhouse Rock: "No More Kings" (with lyrics)
"Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration"...of Independence (with lyrics)
Smart Songs: "Three Branches" (of Government)
UNIT 2, A NEW NATION, 1789-1837:
Hamilton: "The Room Where It Happens"
John Green's Crash Course #9: "Where U.S. Politics Came From (Emerging Politics)"
John Green's Crash Course #12: "Market Revolution"
The Colbert Report: The Doctrine of Nullification on "...State Sovereignty" with Cliff Sloan
Got Milk?: The Duel of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner"
Trailer: ABC's "Truth and Lies: The Doomsday Prophet" (2024)
Trailer: FX's "Under the Banner of Heaven" (2022)
UNIT 3, GROWTH AND CRISIS, 1830s-1877:
Varieties of Anti-Slavery Reform Movements
America, The Story of Us: "Westward" (Episode 3)
America, The Story of Us: "Division" (Episode 4)
John Green's Crash Course #18: "The Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion"
John Green's Crash Course #13: "Slavery"
John Green's Crash Course #19: "Battles of the Civil War"
John Green's Crash Course #20: "Civil War, Part One"
John Green's Crash Course #20: "Civil War, Part Two"
"12 Years A Slave": "Edwin Epps' Sadistic Abuse of Patsey"
Trailer: "Emancipation" (2022)
"Gadsden Purchase" (1854) on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "Mets' Bucket Hat Guy" on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon"
Trailer: "12 Years A Slave" (2013)
Disney's "Remember The Titans" (2000): Gettysburg Memorial Battlefield
"Gangs of New York" (2002): Draft Riots
"Gone With The Wind" (1939): "William T. Sherman's March To The Sea"
America, The Story of Us: "Civil War" (Episode 5)
Trailer: Netflix's "13th" (2016)
"Just Mercy" (2019): Bryan Stevenson at the United States Senate
"The Ellen Show": Michael B. Jordan and Bryan Stevenson, "Just Mercy" (2019)
60 Minutes with Oprah Winfrey: Bryan Stevenson at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: Bryan Stevenson at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
TED Talk: "Bryan Stevenson---We Need To Talk About Injustice"
UNIT 4, THE GILDED AGE, 1860s-1921:
Federal Government Land Policy: 1850-1900
America, The Story of Us: "Heartland" (Episode 6) on YouTube
America, The Story of Us: "Heartland" (Episode 6) on Vimeo
America, The Story of Us: "Heartland" (Episode 6) on DailyMotion
John Green's Crash Course #24: "Westward Expansion"
America, The Story of Us: "Cities" (Episode 7)
John Green's Crash Course #27: "The Progressive Era"
John Green's Crash Course #29: "Progressive Presidents"
The Century: "The Beginning, Seeds of Change"
Trailer: "Dances with Wolves" (1990)
Railroads and Bonanza Towns: "Back to the Future, Part III" (1990)
"The Newsroom" (2012): Opening Scene
Trailer: Disney's "Newsies" (1992)
18th Amendment: Prohibition of Alcohol
"Sister Suffragette": Disney's "Mary Poppins" (1964)
Parody: Ending Women's Suffrage?!?
MIDTERM EXAMINATION REVIEW, ~1733-1921:
Lin-Manuel Miranda: White House Poetry Jam (2009)
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alexander Hamilton: CBS Sunday Morning
The Cast of "Hamilton" at the White House (2016)
UNIT 5, AMERICA EMERGES IN THE WORLD, 1867-1921:
John Green's Crash Course #209: "How World War I Started"
John Green's Crash Course #210: "Who Started World War I?"
The Century: "Shell Shock, 1914-1919"
CBS' 60 Minutes: "Is the American Navy ready?"
Nationalism and Jingoism in European Classrooms: "Joyeux Noel" (2005)
No Man's Land: "War Horse" (2011)
The Industrialization of War and Shell Shock (1:45-6:45): The Century's "Shell Shock"
Shell Shock and PTSD: "Stop-Loss" (2008)
"Over There": Doughboys' Anthem
Airports and Airplanes (Schenck v. United States): "Meet the Parents" (2000)
"Destroy This Mad Brute": Great War Propaganda (Library of Congress)
"That Liberty Shall Not Perish From The Earth": Great War Propaganda (National Archives)
UNIT 6, PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION, 1921-1945:
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 (Fundamentalism vs. Modernism)
Cultural Tensions of the 1920s
The Century: "Boom to Bust, 1921-1929"
America, The Story of Us: "Boom" (Episode 8)
The Century: "Stormy Weather, 1929-1936"
America, The Story of Us: "Bust" (Episode 9)
Trailer: "The Great Gatsby" (2012)
Trailer: Mass Humanities' "Sacco and Vanzetti" (2006)
Trailer: D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915)
United States' Prohibition: 1920-1933 (SimpleHistory)
"Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925" (PBS)
1920s Republican Presidents ("the Roaring Twenties")
"Dancing Flappers and 1920s Fashion"
Charles Lindbergh's Takeoff (www.space.com)
Trailer: "The Jazz Singer" (1927)
Palmer Hayden's "Midsummer Night in Harlem"
Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown: 2006
Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son" (Viola Davis)
Langston Hughes' "Democracy" (Mellon Foundation)
Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing" (1943)
Louis Armstrong's "When the Saints Go Marching In" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (1959)
Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" (1967)
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939): the 1930s Dust Bowl
"The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000): Sweeping Streets during the Great Depression
Unintended Consequences: The Great Depression
UNIT 7, WORLD WAR II AND THE COLD WAR, 1933-1953:
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech (1941)
The Second Red Scare (1939-1954)
The Century: "Over The Edge, 1936-1941"
America, The Story of Us: "World War II" (Episode 10)
The Century: "Homefront, 1941-1945"
The Century: "Best Years, 1946-1952"
John Green's Crash Course #37: "The Early Cold War"
Military Parade: Adolf Hitler and Nazi Party (1940)
The Anschluss: Germany's Invasion of Austria (1938)
After the Anschluss: "The Sound of Music" (1965)
Trailer: "The Sound of Music" (1965)
Creative Translation: "Life Is Beautiful" (1997)
Trailer: "Life Is Beautiful" (1997)
Trailer: "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" (2008)
Trailer: "Schindler's List" (1993)
"Teachers' Bet" on "Boy Meets World" (1993)
Trailer: "Pearl Harbor" (2001)
Trailer: "Enemy at the Gates" (2001)
Trailer: "Saving Private Ryan" (1998)
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki: BBC
Walt Disney and Propaganda: Donald Duck vs. the Japanese (1944)
"Mr. Miyagi's Anniversary": "The Karate Kid" (1984): The Nisei and Japanese Internment
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC): "The Majestic" (2001)
Trailer: "The Majestic" (2001)
UNIT 8, CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, 1945-PRESENT:
Unit 8: "The Three C's: Cold War, Civil Rights and Consumerism, 1945-1975"
Unit 8: Key Events in the American Civil Rights Movement
Unit 8: Significant American Events (1973-2003)
Unit 8: The Rise of Conservatism and the End of the Cold War
Unit 8: The Impeachment of President Bill Clinton
The Century: "Happy Daze, 1953-1960"
America, The Story of Us: "Superpower" (Episode 11)
The Century: "Poisoned Dreams, 1960-1964"
The Century: "Unpinned, 1965-1970"
The Century: "Approaching the Apocalypse, 1971-1975"
The Century: "Starting Over, 1976-1980"
The Century: "A New World, 1981-1989"
America, The Story of Us: "Millennium" (Episode 12)
The Century: "The 90s and Beyond, Then and Now"
John Green's Crash Course #45: "The Clinton Years or the 1990s"
John Green's Crash Course #46: "Terrorism, War and Bush 43"
John Green's Crash Course #47: "Obamanation"
Trailer: "Let The World See" (2021)
The Open Casket of Emmett Till: Jet Magazine (1955)
Trailer: "The Long Walk Home" (1990)
"Little Rock's Central High School at 60" via Time Magazine
"A Walk of Faith: Dorothy Counts' 1957 at Harding High School"
Tommy Tomlinson: "A Picture Speaks" (Dorothy Counts' 1957 at Harding High School)
"Charlotteans of the Year 2017: Dorothy Counts Scoggins" (Charlotte Magazine)
Trailer: Hillsong United's "We Are All In This Together" (2008)
Trailer: "Peyton Place" (1957)
Trailer: "Pleasantville" (1998)
Trailer: "Hidden Figures" (2016)
Trailer: "Thirteen Days" (2001)
History In Five: "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22nd, 1963"
CNBC: "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22nd, 1963"
This Day In History: "November 22nd, 1963"
NBC Nightly News: "The Changing of the Guard...during Hurricane Irene"
"The Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier": Arlington National Cemetery
Trailer: "The Trial of the Chicago 7" (2020)
The Kent State Massacre (1970): 50 Years Later...
History Channel: The Woodstock Rock Festival of 1969
Trailer: "Forrest Gump" (1994)
"Forrest Gump" (1994): Forrest and Jenny at the Black Panther Party!
July 20th, 1969: Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon
"Frost/Nixon" (2008): 1:25 to 6:20, 1:31:55 to 1:39:20 and 1:43:05 to 1:48:30
New York Times: David Frost's Interview with President Richard Nixon (1977)
Opening Scene: "Miracle" (2004)
The Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger (1986): CNN Live
The Explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia (2003)
Trailer: HBO's "Confirmation" (2016)
Whitney Houston: "Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV (1991)
Opening Scene: "Black Hawk Down" (2001)
Trailer: "Black Hawk Down" (2001)
Trailer: "Captain Phillips" (2013)
Trailer: "Sometimes In April" (2005)
Trailer: "Hotel Rwanda" (2004)
Trailer: "American Crime Story: Impeachment" (2021)
Final Scene: "Recount" (2008) and Trailer: "Recount" (2008)
"The Ground Zero Bullhorn Speech" (2001) by President George W. Bush
First Pitch at Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium by President George W. Bush
U2's "Walk On": September 11th, 2001 Tribute
Trailer: "World Trade Center" (2006)
Opening Scene: "The Kingdom" (2007)
Trailer: "Lone Survivor" (2013) and Navy Seals Intro: "Lone Survivor" (2013)
Trailer: "Richard Jewell" (2019)
Trailer: "Hotel Mumbai" (2018)
Trailer: "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012)
Trailer: "Thirteen Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" (2016)
Trailer: "Patriots Day" (2016)
NORTH CAROLINA FINAL EXAMINATION REVIEW, ~1733-PRESENT:
Unit 1: American Foundations (~1733-1789).pptxUnit 2: A New Nation (1789-1837).pptxUnit 3: Growth and Crisis (1837-1877).pptxUnit 4: The Gilded Age (1877-1921).pptxUnit 5: America Emerges In The World (1867-1921).pptxUnit 6: Prosperity and Depression (1921-1945).pptxUnit 7: World War II and the Cold War (1933-1953).pptxUnit 8: Contemporary America (1945-Present).pptx