This teaching unit is designed to supplement your students' study of the 1950's.
Peace and Prosperity: 1953–1961 includes a booklet containing a teachers guide, a set of reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets, digital images of original documents, and sound recordings. Each of nine exercises includes reproductions of documents from the National Archives, including official correspondence, telegrams, photographs, political cartoons, pamphlets, maps, and court decisions. Students practice the historian's skills as they complete exercises, using these documents to gather information, identify points of view, evaluate evidence, form hypotheses, and draw conclusions.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
World War I: The Home Front
The 1920's
The Great Depression and The New Deal
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
