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Stretch and Challenge: Wider Reading
Stretch and Challenge: Wider Reading
This page is dedicated to Wider Reading an essential part of studying history. As USA is a breadth study some of the articles and podcasts are overviews and many of these resources will be easy to access but they will give you a better understanding of the course. But there are also more challenging materials such as University lectures.
You should use this page to extend and develop your understanding of the courses and to recap earlier content studied.
Think about how you will use the resources - do you need to note down every detail? No - in lesson you have the facts you need. These can help develop your understanding of key concepts, develop your arguments, extend your thinking on topics. You may just note down key ideas, arguments, or questions to think about.
Year 12
Year 12
Era of Reconstruction and the the Gilded Age 1865-90
Era of Reconstruction and the the Gilded Age 1865-90
Populism, Progressivism and Imperialism 1890-1920
Populism, Progressivism and Imperialism 1890-1920
Reconstruction:
Yale lecture on Reconstruction Article:Johnson's Impeachment
Podcast: The American Civil War Detailed History on the KKK
Article: The Fourteenth Amendment Article: Reconstruction
Article: Amnesty Act Article: Rebuilding America after the Civil War
Article: Election of 1876 Article: Carpetbaggers and Scallywags
Gilded Age:
Article: Garfield's Assassination Podcast: The Gilded Age
Podcast: Hayes Podcast: Grant Podcast: Arthur
Podcast: Garfield Podcast: Cleveland
Economy and Society:
Podcast: The American West Article: The Wild West
Article: Who were the Tycoons?
Foreign Policy:
Reactions against Big Business:
Article: Upton Sinclair a Muckraker Podcast: Populism
Podcast: McKinley Podcast: Harrison
Progressivism:
Podcast: Theodore Roosevelt Article: Assassination of McKinley
Article: Theodore Roosevelt Article: Woodrow Wilson
Economy and Society:
Article: Immigration Article: Eugene Debs and WW1
Article: Harlem Hellfighters in WW1 Article: Impact of Spanish Flu on Women
Article: Women's suffrage Article: Second Industrial Revolution
Foreign Policy:
Article: The Zimmeran Telegram Article: Isolationism to WW1
Article: Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson Podcast: Boxer Rebellion
Year 13
Year 13
Crisis of identity, 1920-45
Crisis of identity, 1920-45
The Superpower 1945-75
The Superpower 1945-75
Domestic Policies Harding and Coolidge:
Podcast: Harding Podcast: Coolidge Podcast: Hoover
Economy- Boom, Bust and Recovery:
Crash!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked By Phillip G. Payne (A reasonably easy read!)
Crash!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked By Phillip G. Payne (A reasonably easy read!)
Society:
Article: Prohibition and Immigration Podcast: Al Capone
Podcast: Attack on Black Wall Street -Tulsa
Foreign policy:
Podcast: Pearl Harbor Article: America and World War 2
Domestic Policies:
Article: JFK: Style over Substance Podcast: Lyndon B Johnson
Article: Fly me to the moon Podcast: Nixon
Podcast: JFK Podcast: Eisenhower Podcast: Truman
Economy and Society:
Article: McCarthyism and Robin Hood Podcast: Brown vs Topeka
Podcast: Malcolm X Podcast Martin Luther King
Article: Protests in the 1960s
Foreign Policy:
Podcast: Cuban Missile Crisis Article: Turning points in Vietnam
Durham University Lecture on 1970's Foreign policy
Article: Ike and Vietnam Article: Soviet and American Arms Race
Secret Histories - Vietnam War (Andrew Preston) wk 1.mp4Talk on Vietnam by Andrew Preston, part of the Secret Histories series from Clare College, Cambridge University.
Click here for a website dedicated to the US presidents - click on the president you are revising and review dedicated pages to their Domestic and Foreign Policy
Click here for a website dedicated to the US presidents - click on the president you are revising and review dedicated pages to their Domestic and Foreign Policy
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