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August 4, 2021

Great Cities - Additional Resources

Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, by Christian Meier  (Author), Robert Kimber (Translator) The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind, by Justin Pollard (Author) and Howard Reid (Author) The Ancient City: Life in Classical...
July 26, 2021

Additional Resources: Jeeves & Wooster’s World The Comic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse

1. Video: Stephen Fry on P.G. Wodehouse Sir P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, by P. G. Wodehouse (Author) and Sophie Ratcliffe (Editor) Bertie Wooster Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse, 1919 The...
July 19, 2021

Additional Resources: Elevating Liberal Democracy

Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville  (Author), Harvey C. Mansfield  (Translator) and Delba Winthrop (Translator) Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope American Notes for General Circulation, by Charles Dickens  (Author) and Patricia Ingham (Editor) The American Commonwealth (2-volume set),...
July 12, 2021

Additional Resources: Celebrating American Blues Music

The Mississippi Delta  Dockery Plantation, Dockery, Mississippi Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music, by Ted Gioia   Sharecropping Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, by Robert Palmer Juke Joint Ma...
June 28, 2021

Additional Resources: “The Jazz Age” 1920s America - 50 Resources for High School Students

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper Perennial Modern Classics), by Frederick Lewis Allen This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s, by Roger Kahn  The First Red Scare...
June 7, 2021

Additional Resources- U.S House

Athenian Democracy, 6th Century BC House of Commons of the United Kingdom 13-14th centuries to the present House of Burgesses, Colony of Virginia, 1642-1776 Continental Congress, 1774-1789 The Federalist Papers: No. 52 (1788), by “Publius” James Madison or Alexander Hamilton The Constitution...