Table of Contents

• Instructor Resources

  • Video: Teaching Theme

• Student Resources

  • How to Annotate a Text
  • Critical Approaches Chart
  • Writing about Literature Handout
  • Organizing Your Analysis

• Immigration

  • Overview: Immigration
  • Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
  • Biography: Howard Zinn
  • A People's History of the United States Section 11
  • Trans-national America
  • Biography: Upton Sinclair
  • The Jungle (Chapter 9)
  • Additional Resources: Immigration

• Roaring '20s

  • Overview: Roaring '20s
  • Biography: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar
  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
  • Video: Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance
  • Biography: Langston Hughes
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  • Additional Resources: Roaring '20s
  • Video: Modernism in American Literature

• Writers at War

  • Overview: Writers at War
  • A People's History of the United States Section 14
  • Additional Resources: Writers at War

• Writers Abroad

  • Overview: Writers Abroad
  • Biography: Mark Twain
  • The Innocents Abroad: Chapter 1
  • The Innocents Abroad: Chapter 61
  • The Innocents Abroad: Conclusion
  • One Trip Abroad
  • Equal in Paris
  • Journey Into Night
  • Additional Resources: Writers Abroad

• Writers at Home

  • Overview: Writers at Home
  • Biography: John Cheever
  • The Swimmer
  • Additional Resources: Writers at Home

• Consumerism

  • Overview: Consumerism
  • Video: 1990s Mall Commercial
  • Biography: Allen Ginsberg
  • A Supermarket in California
  • Additional Resources: Consumerism

• Humor

  • Overview: Humor
  • Biography: Ring Lardner
  • Haircut
  • A Fairly Sad Tale
  • Reformers: A Hymn of Hate
  • Biography: James Thurber
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Tails of Manhattan
  • Additional Resources: Humor

• Drugs

  • Overview: Drugs
  • Biography: Hunter S. Thompson
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Video: Reefer Madness
  • Additional Resources: Drugs

• Counterculture & Social Commentary

  • Overview: American Counterculture and Social Commentary
  • Additional Resources: American Counterculture and Social Commentary
  • Video: Post-Modernism

• Sex

  • Overview: Sex
  • A Telephone Call
  • Additional Resources: Sex

• American Protest

  • Overview: American Protest
  • Video: The 1960s in America
  • John Wayne: A Love Song
  • Additional Resources: American Protest

• American Horror

  • Overview: American Horror
  • Gods of the North
  • Biography: H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Shunned House
  • Video: Night of the Living Dead
  • Video: Dawn of the Dead
  • Additional Resources: American Horror

• Comic Books

  • Overview: Comic Books
  • Seduction of the Innocent
  • I Killed Mary
  • Amazing Fantasy #15: Spider-Man

• Civil Rights

  • Overview: Civil Rights
  • Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
  • A Talk to Teachers
  • Video: Get Christie Love
  • Additional Resources: Civil Rights