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Main Street vs. Wall Street: How Big Is Too Big and How Much is Too Much?
- An American Rebellion, Sparked by Tough Times, NPR, 2011 http://www.npr.org/2011/08/28/139946992/an-american-rebellion-sparked-by-tough-times
- The “Horrid and Unnatural Rebellion” Of Daniel Shays, www.americanheritage.com, 1966
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9Chorrid-and-unnatural-rebellion%E2%80%9D-daniel-shays - Alexander Hamilton, American Experience, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hamilton/ - Thomas Jefferson, a film by Ken Burns, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/ - Historical Beginnings, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
http://www.bostonfed.org/about/pubs/historical-beginnings/index.htm - Plutocrats Then and Now, Moyers and Company, PBS
http://billmoyers.com/content/plutocrats-then-now/ - The Theodore Roosevelt Web Book, the Theodore Roosevelt Association http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/TR_CD_to_HTML01.html
- Great Depression Curriculum Unit, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/great-depression-curriculum-unit/ - Middle class at a crossroads, not for the first time, Marketplace, American Public Media
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/middle-class-photo-project/middle-class-crossroads-not-first-time
Immigration: How Wide Should We Open “The Golden Door”?
- Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, Bill Moyers, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/
- Citizen Challenge, American Challenge, PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hamilton/sfeature/test.html
- Destination America, PBS, 2005 http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/
Foreign Born Population in the United States, 2010, United States Census Bureau, May 2012
http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf - Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, Harvard University Library Open Collections Program http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
- The Immigration Act of 1924, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State http://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ImmigrationAct
Economic Growth vs. Environmental Protection: Do We Have to Choose Between Them?
- The Walden Woods Project
http://www.walden.org/thoreau - Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929, Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html - American Landscape and Architectural Design 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/landscape/olmsted.html - The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a film by Ken Burns, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/ - John Muir
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/historical/muir/ - Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/historical/roosevelt/ - The Dust Bowl, a film by Ken Burns, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/ - Rachel Carson
http://rachelcarson.org/ - Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day: The Making of the Modern Environmental Movement
http://nelsonearthday.net/ - EPA History, the Environmental Protection Agency
http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-history - The Maine Woods Initiative, Appalachian Mountain Club
http://www.outdoors.org/conservation/wherewework/maine/index.cfm
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