History Spine- America

[laughing lioness]

DS15 studying American History this year. Did Ren/Reform with Omni and Ancients with MP. Need a simple spine as guidance. He has a head for history and wants challenge without the speeding bullet approach (no more Omni).

 

Thoughts/links/help of any kind appreciated. I'm maxed.

[Elizabeth in WA]

I am using Paul Johnson's A History of the American People as a spine for American History this year.

 

My "complete" text list is:

Primary Texts:

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

Freedom, Just Around the Corner by Walter A. McDougall

Women and The American Experience, A Concise History by Nancy Woloch

Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 by Walter A. McDougall

Conquest of the Americas, lectures 1-10, by The Teaching Company

History of the United States, 2nd Ed. By The Teaching Company

Great American Documents by Cambridge Editorial Partners

 

 

Supplemental Materials:

New England Economic Adventure by The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

I am also planning the literature component of our English class to go along with our history study.

 

Elizabeth