Annotated Bibliography
Baldwin, James, Collected Essays, The Library of America, 1998. This book includes a gathering of his non-fiction essays.
Carlisle, Rodney P, Civil War and Reconstruction. Infobase Publishing, 2008. This reference book provides hundreds of first hand accounts of this period in narratives form.
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Friedlander, Jonathan Sojourners and Settlers, The Yemeni Immigrant Experience, The Regents of the University of California, 1988. This is an extra large book about the Yemini immigrant experience in America. There are numerous pictures, some in color depicting snap shots of different places in the United States that they traveled to.
Jordan, Anne, Slavery and Resistance, Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007. Describes slavery in the US from colonial times up to the Civil War.
Kent, Zachary, The Civil War, "A House Divided." Library of Congress, 1994. This juvenile literature brings to life the people and event of the Civil War.
Marable, Manning, and Mullings, Leith Let Nobody Turn Us Around, and African American Anthology. Rowman I& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2009. This African-American anthology offers comprehensive historical documents, testimonies, interviews, speeches, poetry, and essays from exceptional voices from the past and present.
Mayberry, Jodine Recent American Immigrants. Franklin Watts, 1990. This book can be used as a teacher resource because it discusses Filipino immigration to America, their reasons for coming, their lifestyles, and their contributions to their new country.
Monk, Linda R., The Words We Live By, New York, A Stonesong Press Book, 2003. This is annotated guide to the Constitution.
Myers, Walter Dean, A Biography by Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary. Scholastic Inc. 1993. This was an amazing journey into the life of a brilliant man. It covers his childhood, relationship with his parents, his thug days, days in the Nation of Islam, marriage, the March on Washington, journey to Hajj, and his assassination in 1965.
Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. Slavery in America, Infobase Publishing, 2007. This book tells the story of slavery in North America, including slave trade, auctions, plantation life, and escaped attempts, the Civil War, and Emancipation before the Reconstruction period.
Children's Books
Burgan, Michael, Bill of Rights, The, Compass Point Books, 2002. This book covers the history of the Bill of Rights from creating a new government to giving the first ten Amendments to the Constitution.
Cavan, Seamus Coming to America, The Irish-American Experience. The Millbrook Press, 1993. This book traces the history of Irish immigration to the United States, discussing why the Irish emigrated, their problems in a new land, and their contributions to a new culture.
Corrigan, Jim Filipino Immigration. Mason Crest Publishers, 2004. This book is an overview of immigration from the Philippines to the United States and Canada since 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to come.
Curtis, Christopher Paul, The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963. Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1995. The family decides to take its juvenile delinquent to the South, Birmingham to teach him how to behave. It is a very amusing account of a ten-year-old and his family's life. The story takes a deeply disturbing change of events when the family witnesses the aftermath of the bombing of the church in Birmingham that killed four little girls.
Gordon, Susan Asian Indians, Recent American Immigrants, Franklin Watts, Inc. 1990. This book discusses immigrants from India, their reasons for coming, their lifestyles, and their contributions to their new country.
Grenquist, Barbara, Cubans, Recent American Immigrants. Franklin Watts, Inc. 1991. This series describes how Cuban immigrants came to America to escape repression in their homeland, and how they have adopted to life in the America.
Hestler, Ann , Yemen, Cultures of the World. Times Editions 1999. This book presents information about the geography, history, government, and economy of this country.
Lester, Julius, To be a Slave. Puffin Books, 1998. A compilation, selected from various sourced and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of African through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Pinchot, Jane The Mexicans in America. Lerner Publishing Company, 1989. A brief history of the Mexicans in the United States-their life in Southwestern America before statehood, the acquisition of land, and their contribution to America.
Rutledge, Paul, The Vietnamese in America, Learner Publication Company 1987. This book provides the reading with information about how most Vietnamese people in America came as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War.
Sexton, Colleen, Philippines in Pictures. Visual Geography Series, Learner Publishing Group. This book reveals the history, government, economy, people, geography, and cultural life of the Philippines.
Scott Foresman, Our Nation, Units 4, Pearson Education, Inc. 2006. This is the Social Studies supplemental booklet for fifth-grade. Unit 4, lesson 6 addresses the role of slavery in colonial America.
Scott Foresman, Our Nation, Units 7, Pearson Education, Inc. 2006. This is the Social Studies supplemental booklet for fifth-grade. Unit 7, lessons addresses the challenges involved in creating the Constitution to citizens' rights.
Wanasundera, Nanda P. Sri Lanka, Cultures of the Worlds. Times Editions, 1991. This book looks at the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyles, language and culture of this diverse country.
Read Aloud Books
Catrow, David We The Kids, The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, New York, 2002, Dial Book for Young Readers. This book provides information about the Constitution in kid-friendly language.
Green, Jen, Racism, Talking about, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. The author writes, "sometimes people don't like you because of the color of your skin, where you came from, or because of your religion." This books offers ideas and experiences from children about racism.
Garay, Luis, The Long Road, Tundra Books, 1997. The book is the story of a boy's difficult journey, leaving Nicaragua, and going to a new country far away. It will be a read-aloud activity to begin a lesson on paths to citizenship.
McGill, Alice, Molly Bannaky, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. This book relates how Benjamin Bannekar's grandmother, a White woman, journeyed from England to Maryland I the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Moore, Cathy. Ellen Craft's Escape from Freedom. Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2011. A picture book plus reader's theater that tells the story about runaway slaves that faced many dangers in the 1940s.
Obama, Barack, Of Thee I Sing, Borzoi Book Publishing, 2010. It is a book about letters to his daughters, giving tribute to thirteen Americans and their ideals that have shaped America.
Pearl, Norman, The U. S. Constitution, Picture Window Books, 2007. The book offers a simple introduction to the rules and symbols of the U.S. Constitution.
Yin, Coolies, Philomel Books, 2001. Two Chinese brothers came to America in 1965 and help build the railroad across the West. They experience hatred and racism, more than they could have imagined.
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