Created by professional
historians to help teachers at all levels to integrate the latest historical
scholarship into their classes, Gilder Lehrman History Online features
scholarly overviews of pivotal topics in American history, transcriptions of
historical documents, and interactive timelines.
Special features include:
· Critical
Issues in American History
A multimedia,
hypertext history of the United States
· The Gilder
Lehrman Online History Library
An
archive of annotated primary source documents
· Great
Debates in American History
Succinct essays on major historical controversies
· History
Behind the Headlines
Historical
context for contemporary controversies
· The History of Private Life
Succinct
essays on changes in the family, gender roles, and other aspects of private
life
· Hollywood’s America
Guides to the depiction of U.S. history in film
· The Making of Ethnic America
Succinct
essays on the history of the diverse ethnic groups that make up the American
people
· Mastering
the Past
Interactive
exercises designed to build student skills
· Pathways to the Past
Annotated
guides to historical resources on the World Wide Web
· Pursuing the Past
Annotated
guides to scholarly books and articles
· Roundtable
of Ideas
Online forums where
teachers have the opportunity to pose questions and discuss historical
controversies with leading scholars
· Straight Talk on Tough Issues
Model answers to difficult questions raised by
controversial historical topics
In addition, Gilder
Lehrman History Online provides:
· Interactive
timelines
· Glossaries of key concepts, events,
individuals, and terms
· Classroom-tested lesson plans and
handouts created by master teachers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
· Critical
Issues in American History
Units
are currently available on:
The
American Revolution
The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
The
Federalist Era
The
Jeffersonian Era
Religion in the Early Republic
The
Struggle for Public Schools
Antislavery
New
World Slavery
Westward
Expansion
The
Impending Crisis
· Interactive
timelines:
A Chronology of American History
A
Chronology of the American Revolution
· Glossaries of
key concepts, events, individuals, and terms:
A Glossary of American History
A
Glossary of Native American History
A
Glossary of American Film History
·
Succinct essays on major
historical controversies:
Great Debates in American History
What
Were the Origins of American Slavery?
Was
Slavery the Major Cause of American Economic Growth?,
Should
Andrew Johnson Have Been Impeached?
Why
was the late 19th Century South Poor?
Why
Did the Socialist Movement Fail in the United States?
Korea:
The Right War? At What Cost?
Why
was the United States in Vietnam?
Did
the United States Lose the War on Poverty?
· Classroom-tested
lesson plans and handouts created by master teachers
Click
for fact sheets and handouts on:
European
Discovery of the New World
Motivations
for English Colonization
The Peopling of America The Puritan
Mind
Witchcraft
in Salem Toward
Revolution
Impact of the
Revolution Conflict
over Ratifying the Constitution
Federalists
and Jeffersonians War of
1812
Jacksonian
Democracy Indian
Removal
Political
Battles of the Jacksonian Era An
Industrializing Nation
Religion
and Social Reform Slavery, I
African
Americans After Slavery Indian
Policy
Changing
Status of Women Farmers'
Revolt
Responses
to Industrialization Imperialism
and the Spanish-American War
Urban
Political Machines Immigration
Problems
of Youth Progressive
Reform and the Trusts
World War
I Controversies
of the 1920s
Great
Depression and the New Deal
World War
II
The Atomic
Bomb Origins of
the Cold War
·
An archive of annotated
primary source documents:
The Gilder Lehrman Online History Library:
Mexican American History to 1900
and since
1900
·
Historical context for
contemporary controversies:
History Behind the Headlines
America’s
first hostage crisis
Anti-Trust: Bill Gates--Another Rockefeller or Another
Ford?
·
Succinct essays on
changes in the family, gender roles, and other aspects of private life:
The History of Private Life
The
History of the American Family: Myths and Realities
·
Guides to the depiction
of U.S. History in Film:
Hollywood’s America
The
American Revolution in Film
·
Succinct Essays on the
History of the Diverse Ethnic Groups:
The Making of Ethnic America
Chinese
immigrants and the construction of the transcontinental railroad
·
Interactive exercises
designed to build student skills:
Mastering the Past
Interactive skills-building exercises.
Click here for quizzes on:
·
Annotated guides to
historical resources on the World Wide Web:
Pathways to the Past
Click here
for a Comprehensive Annotated Guide
·
Annotated guides to
scholarly books and articles:
Pursuing the Past
·
Online forums where
teachers have the opportunity to pose questions to leading scholars:
Roundtable
of Ideas
Great
Conversations
·
Model answers to
difficult questions raised by controversial historical topics:
Straight Talk on Tough Issues
About
the authors
Steven Mintz is Professor of History,
John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar, and Associate Dean of the College
of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication at the University of Houston. A
leading authority on the history of the family, of slavery and abolition, and
of film, he is the author of such books as Domestic Revolutions: A Social
History of American Family Life (with Susan Kellogg), Moralists &
Modernizers: America’s Pre-Civil War Reformers, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
(with David Brion Davis), and African American Voices, Mexican
American Voices, and Native American Voices.
Richard Jensen is Professor
Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a leading
authority on the political history of the United States. The founder of H-Net: Humanities and Social
Sciences Online, he is a pioneer in the application of new technologies to the
teaching of history. His many books include Clarence Darrow: The Creation of
an American Myth, Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983;
The Historian’s Guide to Statistics; and The Winning of the Midwest:
Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896.
Sara McNeil is Assistant Professor
of Instructional Technology in the College of Education at the University of
Houston and an authority on the design of educational Webscapes and the visual
representation of information. Widely published in the areas of teacher
education, courseware authoring, and educational hypermedia and multimedia, she
has received funding for instructional technology projects from Adobe Software,
Apple Computer, and the MCI-WorldCom Foundation. She was recently awarded a
$1.43 million Department of Education grant to prepare tomorrow’s teachers to
use technology.