• Chapter 26 .PDF
• Lecture Notes: Currency and the Populist Party (.doc)
• Talking Points: Native American Cultures in Crisis (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Settlement of the West (.doc)
• Talking Points: Conquest of the West (.doc)
• Chapter 26 Outline

• "The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Fredrick Turner Jackson's Frontier Thesis" by Martin Ridge, Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 41 No. 1 (Winter, 1991)
• Introduction from The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Limerick
• "The Frontier as a Place of  Conquest and Conflict" by Patricia Limerick

• Read "On the White Men" and answer question(s). (1900s)

• Listen to podcast "The Real All Americans" (37:43 min.)
• Listen to podcast "American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many" (7:45 min.) 
• Read "On the Use of English in Indian Schools" and answer question(s). (1887)
• Watch "How Hollywood Stereotypes the Native Americans" (5:22 min.)
• Watch Project XX: End of the Trail (52 min.)

• Read "The Log of a Cowboy" and answer question(s). (1903)

• Read "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" and answer question(s). (1913) 

• Read "Wall Street Owns the Country" - a speech by Mary E. Lease. (1890)
• Listen to "The Farmer is the Man" by Pete Seeger (1890-6). "The most famous and most lasting of the songs inspired by the Populist movement is 'The Farmer is the Man.' Its lyrics sum up, far better than any of the Populist tracts or pamphlets, the plight of the farmers of the 1890s." (Source)

• Read "How Women Are Treated by the Pullman Company" and answer question(s). (1894)

Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows, 1913

• Chapter 25 .PDF
• Talking Points: Rise of the American City (.doc)
• Talking Points: Patterns of Immigration (.doc)
• Talking Points: Reactions to Immigration (.doc)
• Talking Points: Social Thought in the Gilded Age (.doc)
• Chapter 25 Outline

• Read an excerpt from How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis and answer the response questions. (.doc)

• Watch "Hester Street" (1975; Netflix DVD)

• Listen to Cavalcade of America: Jane Addams of Hull House

• Read "The Two Acre Lot" and answer question(s). (1856)
• Listen Cavalcade of America: Trials and Triumphs of Horatio Alger

• Read the trial excerpt "The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony" and answer question(s). (1873)

• Read "Francis Willard Prays in a Saloon" (1874) 

• 1893 Columbian Exposition - A Photo Montage (YouTube)
• Explore: World's Columbian Exposition

• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century - Includes essays by Howells, Riis, and other observers.

Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age

• Chapter 24 .PDF
• Lecture Notes: The New American Economy (.doc)
• Lecture Notes: Robber Barons or Benevolent Geniuses? (.doc)
• Lecture Notes: Plight of the Industrial Worker (.doc)
• Talking Points: Ingredients of Industrialization (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Economics of Industrialization (.doc) 
• Chapter 24 Outline

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chapter 11: Robber Barons and Rebels (Discussion Guide)

• Read the essay, Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? by T.J. Stiles 

• Read and/or listen: Carnegie Speaks: A Recording of the Gospel of Wealth (1889) 

• Listen to "Cotton Mill Blues" - gives background information on cotton mills in the 1880s and the music that emerged. (4:37 min.)
• Listen to "Poor Man, Rich Man" and "Cotton Mill Colic" by Dave McCarn - be sure to read the notes on the first video.

• Listen to "Mother Jones" from But the Women Rose, Vol. 2: Voices of Women in American History
• Listen to "The Most Dangerous Woman" by Utah Phillips (RE: Mother Jones)
• Listen to "The Death of Mother Jones" by Gene Autry

• Read "On the Goals of Trade Unions" and answer question(s). (1883)

• Chapter 23 .PDF 
• Lecture Notes: Politics in the Gilded Age (.doc)
• Talking Points: Politics of the Gilded Age (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Rise of the Populist Movement (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Election of 1896 (.doc)
• Chapter 23 Outline
• ACE Practice Test

• 1868 Election Song: Grant, Grant, Grant
• 1868 Election Song: Hurrah for Grant
• 1872 Election Song: Victoria's Banner (Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass; women's suffrage)
• 1876 Election Song: The Boys in Blue (Rutherford Hayes) 
• 1880 Election Song: If the Johnnies Get Into Power Again (Garfield)
• 1884 Election Song: For Victory Again (James G. Blaine and John A. Logan)
• 1888 Election Song: He's All Right (Benjamin Harrison)
• 1888 Election Song: His Grandfather's Hat (anti-Harrison)
• 1892 Election Song: Democrats, Good Democrats (Grover Cleveland)
• 1892 Election Song: (anti-Cleveland)
• 1892: Grover Cleveland  (1:21 min.) - First minute of his 1892 campaign speech, begins with the music "Hail to the Chief."

• Watch "Boss Tweed and Thomas Nast" - clip from the Ric Burns documentary "This is New York" (9:18 min.)

• 7 Elections That Changed U.S. History: See "1872 - Vegetarian vs. Crooked Incumbent"

• Just for fun,  "The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band" - a 1968 Disney musical set during the election of 1888.

• "Tammany Hall" board game - available Nov. 2012!

• The Adventures of Ociee Nash (Netflix) 
• Life with Father (Learning Guide available) (YouTube)
• Cimarron

• American Experience: The Orphan Trains

• The American Pageant, 12th edition by David M. Kennedy, Lizbeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey (.PDF chapter files)
• American Pageant Workbook (top of the page)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Voices of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (.PDF)
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (.PDF)

• Teach with Movies
• American History Through the Eyes of Radio

• The Use of the Blackboard in a Waldorf Classroom by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)

• Forming a Daily Rhythm by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• My Journey: A Waldorf Homeschooling Planner from Waldorf Essentials
• My Waldorf Year: Planning Guide and Workbook by Kristie Burns (.PDF)

• An Overview of the Waldorf Curriculum (.PDF)
• Planning a Main Lesson Block by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• Considerations When Planning Your Yearly Block Rotation by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• Summer Teacher Planning from The Parenting Passageway
• Planning 101: Planning for Fall - A list of posts by The Parenting Passageway
• Summer Block Preparation Guidelines for Teachers by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• Thoughts on Reviewing a Main Lesson Story by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• How to Plan a History Block by Waldorf Inspirations (.PDF)
• Waldorf Teachers Gallery: Main Lesson Book Pages (.PDF)
• A Rough Guide to 6th Grade from Christopherus Homeschool (.PDF)
• A Rough Guide to 7th Grade from Christopherus Homeschool (.PDF)
• A Rough Guide to 8th Grade from Christopherus Homeschool (.PDF)