U.S. History Resources

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Welcome to the U.S. History Resources web site. Its purpose is to assist students and teachers in high school U.S. history courses. One of the real challenges facing both students and teachers in a survey course is the overwhelming amount of material that must be covered. For some, the understanding of the "big picture" gets lost in the sheer volume of facts, dates, people, and movements. When this happens, history can become more of a memorization exercise than a thoughtful analysis of how and why things occurred. This site attempts to simplify American history without making it simplistic. It was designed to assist students in my Advanced Placement U.S. History course offered at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. Those students, along with a number of teachers and students  have made numerous recommendations and improvements to the page.

Feel free to reproduce any part of it for a class assignment, to review for a quiz or test, or as part of a website. If you quote from it, you should cite it. If you decide to use this website as a link on your own, join the list of over 140 teacher, museum, student and school websites that have already done so and let me know. If you find this site helpful, have questions or comments, or would like to make suggestions, please e-mail and let me know where you're from.

 
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Great U.S. History quote...

William O. Douglas:
on free speech

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

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