Primary Source U.S. History 4th edition -- All-in-One Course

The Primary Source American History Course Bundle contains a ZIP file of:

1. Primary Source American History, a 1,106 page DOC file teacher's toolbox (more detail on this below),

2. Twenty-six PowerPoints (705 slides) covering Roanoke to Trump, and

3. A test bank of more than 100 tests and quizzes in U.S. History (no answer sheets, here or anywhere online) in DOC format. In the test bank, most are leveled for either standard level (College Prep), Honors 2 or Honors 1.

All three resources are in a ZIP file, and the PowerPoints and tests are in their own folders and are matched to each other, and to the book's readings/study guides and projects. NOTE: Because the PowerPoints contain pictures/maps/graphs on nearly every slide and there is more than 2,000 pages of total content, the size of this ZIP file is nearly 250MB.

Primary Source American History a workbook in the form of a toolbox of teacher assignments and contains a variety of teacher resources, including:

97 primary source reading assignments,

Eight research and documentation projects (five papers, a PowerPoint presentation and two videos),

20 unit vocabulary lists

22 review worksheets,

Three Mock Trials (two criminal and one civil),

Two Mock Congresses (with short speech/paper),

One Oval Office simulation

Because it is a digital text in MS Word DOC format, the readings and activities are adaptable to your classroom preferences. Moreover, it's easy for the teacher purchasing this to post the first 750-odd pages on a school password-protected school intranet to use as a textbook supplement. (You may want to withhold the Mock Trials and Mock Congresses for the appropriate time.)

All of the primary source readings have a series of questions at the end, which are generally a mix of reading comprehension, student opinion, Document-Based Questions, and – whenever possible – links to current events. The primary source documents are a necessity for the honors-level students, especially when they are tracked to take the College Board's AP U.S. History exam (which made major changes in 2017 toward use of primary source documents). As such, I give them the document-based questions (DBQs) at the end of the texts (marked with a “►”) as preparation for the kind of questions they'll likely encounter in the AP exam.

In this fourth edition of Primary Source American History, I've included more readings about labor and the labor movement, as well as several readings about the Trump administration (the so-called “Muslim ban” and sanctuary cities). Also, I've tried to update the questions to readings in the third edition in order to to relate them to current events as much as possible.

I've put the full index to this edition of the book on my Pinterest page, here: https://www.pinterest.com/teddlem/primary-source-american-history-4th-edition/

– Thomas R. Eddlem

May, 2019