home

=Staples High School Library Learning Commons Mr. Rogers and Mrs. Stiles= We will be collaborating with two US History classes in the classroom and in the SHS Library Learning Commons. Look for exciting new ideas, thoughts, projects, and assignments coming your way!

**Theme 1: Establishing the Ideals**
Lord Charles Cornwallis Mercy Otis Warren J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur John Dickinson Marquis de Lafayette Paul Revere Pierre-Charles L'Enfant Thomas Paine Phyllis Wheatley Benjamin Franklin George III John Trumbull Abigail Adams John Adams John Glover Thomas Jefferson Gilbert Stuart Crispus Attucks Richard Henry Lee George Mason Edmund Burke Lyman Hall Benjamin Rush Joseph Brant Red Jacket Samson Occum
 * People - All found on ABC-CLIO**

Yankee Doodle - 1778 Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson - 1781 The American Crisis, Thomas Paine - 1776 Common Sense, Thomas Paine - 1776 Second Treatise of Government, John Locke - 1690 The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith - 1776 The Federalist Papers- 1788 Indenture of Servitude for Ship Passage - 1696 From a Farmer. letter, John Dickinson - 1768 The Stamp Act, Congress - 1765 Account of the Boston Tea Party, George Hewes - 1773 Declaration of Independence -1776 A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson - 1774 Townshend Acts - 1767 Virginia Declaration of Rights - 1776 Account of his midnight ride to Lexington and Concord - 1775 Origin of Inequality Among Men, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1754
 * Primary Source Documents** - All found on ABC-CLIO

**Theme 2: Spreading the Ideals Domestically**
William Henry Harrison John Sibley Dred Scott Meriwether Lewis James K. Polk Thomas Jefferson Kamiakin George Rogers Clark Jean Baptiste Lamy William Jefferson Hardin Zebulon M. Pike Cochise Louis Jolliet Jacques Marquette Thomas Moran Sam Houston Wild Bill Hickok Tecumseh Clarence King Sacajawea Thomas Hart Benton John Dewey Ray Stannard Baker Frances Kellor Rose Schneiderman Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Harriet Beecher Stowe Abner Doubleday George Armstrong Custer Allan Pinkerton Samuel Colt Harriet Tubman Albert Bierstadt Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Stephen Foster Susan B. Anthony John Brown Mark Twain John C. Calhoun Mike Fink Samuel Morse George Washington Carver Frederick Douglass Frederick Law Olmstead Frederic Remington Elizabeth Cady Stanton Wyatt Earp Cornelius Vanderbilt
 * People - All found on ABC-CLIO**

Manifest Destiny Article, John L. O'Sullivan - 1845 Annual Message, Woodrow Wilson - 1920 Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe - 1862 Marching through Georgia, Henry Clay Work - 1865 The Negro Problem, Booker T. Washington - 1903 The History of the Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell - 1904 Whig Party Platform - 1856 Cabinet opinions on the decision to relieve Fort Sumter - 1861 Fifteenth Amendment South Carolina Ordinance of Secession - 1860 Thirteenth Amendment Appomattox Court House Surrender, Ulysses S. Grant - 1865 Reconstruction Acts - 1867 Compromise of 1850 Comstock Act - 1873 Fourteenth Amendment Fugitive Slave Act - 1860 Official Reports on the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee - 1863 Confederate States of America Constitution - 1861 Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 The Jungle, Upton Sinclair - 1906
 * Primary Source Documents** - All found on ABC-CLIO

**Theme 3: Spreading the Ideals Internationally**
James Forrestal Zbigniew Brzezinski John Foster Dulles Edward House John W. Bricker Claude McKay Frank Gannett Rodolfo Acuna A. Mitchell Palmer Alvin York Humphrey Bogart John Maynard Keynes Kate Smith Irving Berlin Pierre DuPont Nicola Sacco Ernest Hemingway William Paul Dillingham
 * People - All found on ABC-CLIO**

Annual Messages, Theodore Roosevelt - 1902, 1903 Workers (Communist) Party Platform - 1928 Peace Corps Mission and Goals NSC 69: U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security - 1950 Evil Empire Speech, Ronald Reagan - 1982
 * Primary Source Documents - All found on ABC-CLIO**