Click on  the  links below for primary documents, supplemental readings, and media

Colonial Era

Mayflower Compact

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp

History of the Flushing Meeting

http://www.nyym.org/flushing/history.html

Flushing Remonstrance

http://www.nyym.org/flushing/remons.html

Bacon’s Declaration

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800

Maryland Act of Toleration

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1048&Itemid=264

Revolutionary Era

Stamp Act

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/archives-stamp-act/

Townshend Acts

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/townsend_act_1767.asp

http://americanhistory.si.edu/petersprints/lithograph.cfmid=325702&Keywords=john&Results_Per=10&search_all=false

Boston Massacre

http://www.bostonmassacre.net/gravure.htm

Gaspee Incident

http://www.gaspee.org/SamAdams.html

Bowling Green

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/celebraing-276-years-of-bowling-green/

The Critical Period

http://www.consource.org/index.asp?bid=529

Federal Era

“Ten dollar founding father without a father”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE

“City Boy” by Ron Chernow

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/nyregion/city-people-alexander-hamilton-city-boy.html?scp=1&sq=alexander%20hamilton%20city%20boy&st=cse

“Chopping Off the Weakest Branch” by Ron Chernow

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/opinion/06chernow.html?scp=1&sq=chopping%20off%20the%20weakest%20branch&st=cse

Alexander Hamilton’s Last Stand by Ron Chernow

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/opinion/alexander-hamilton-s-last-stand.html?scp=7&sq=alexander%20hamilton&st=cse

Jeffersonian Era

“Our Country’s Battles” by Kevin Baker

http://www.kevinbaker.info/c_ocb.html

Reconstruction

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Case.4.aspx

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954)

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/Case.6.aspx

LISTEN

The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

Eric Foner’s Forever Free examines how Emancipation and Reconstruction during and after the Civil War shaped the America we live in today

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/02/21/segments/57308

WATCH

Eric Foner on YouTube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxA3v_aWoiY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98INJe1Zqlo

Labor

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/opinion/22cronon.html?_r=1&hp

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/garment-work-in-new-york-100-years-after-the-triangle-fire/