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Welcome to United States History Class
The U.S. is a unique nation.
Quotes
How do we learn about history?
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History…
You may quote these people…(37 examples)
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Writing Activity: Pick two Quotes
Quote 1 Quote 2
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“There is no such thing as an uninteresting life.”
Mark Twain
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“There is no history—only biography.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is well that war is so terrible or else we should grow too fond of it.”
George Washington
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“Journalism is the first rough draft of history…”
Philip Graham
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From John Ford’s Western Film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
“Education is the basis of law and order.”
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is the duty of good education to arrive at wisdom by means of a definite order.”
St. Augustine, c. 400 AD
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“Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“People are more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.”
President Bill ClintonDemocratic Convention, 2008
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“We can disagree without being disagreeable.”
President Barack Obama
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
William Faulkner
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“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.”
JFK, 1960
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“The first important step in anyone’s education is to know your own people.”
Chaim Potok, The Chosen (224)
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“Ye were not formed to be like brutes but to pursue knowledge and virtue high.”
Dante’s Inferno XXIII
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“The great gift I received from God is when He created my desire for freedom.”
Dante
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“Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.”
Alexander Hamilton
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“Towers fell and a nation rose.”
President George W. Bush, 2001
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“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”
John Winthrop (quoted by Presidents Ronald Reagan
and Barack Obama)
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“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Patrick Henry
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of the truth.”
JFK
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“All history is gossip.”
JFK
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“Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
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“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Every year, with each new writer, opinion as to what constitutes the welfare of humanity changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vie versa…We even find in history, at one and the same time, quite contradictory views as to what was good and what was bad.”
Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace
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“…the art of a nation is not only the measure of its prosperity, but also of its intelligence.”
Otto Wagner (Austrian architect and urban planner)
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“A collective historical consciousness, therefore, may be as much a prerequisite for a healthy well-rounded society as is the proper ecological balance for a healthy forest and a healthy planet.”
John Lewis Gaddis in The Landscape of History
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“The past becomes a place of refuge.”
Paraphrased from National Gallery in Berlin, Germany
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“Right is right even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
William Penn
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“It is history that teaches us to hope.”
General Robert E. Lee
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“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.:
“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
David McCullough, author and historian
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“The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“… the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people. “
Governor Mitt Romney
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“News is the oxygen of democracy.”
Center for News Literacy
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Writing Activity—Pick Two Quotes
“Quote”• Comment or explain this
quote using an informal style and voice.
“Quote”• Comment or explain this
quote using a formal style and voice.
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HISTORY: WHAT IS IT?
WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY IT?
HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT IT?
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U.S. History
• History is the study of the past to help understand the present and prepare for the future
• The U.S. is a unique “experiment” in a democratic republic
• Our “founding fathers” were influenced by ideas of the Enlightenment
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Alexis de Tocqueville
• French historian who visited the U.S. in the 1830s
• In Democracy in America, he wrote about American “exceptionalism” notably:
freedom of the pressmix of religionsmovement within social classes
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Alexis De Tocqueville identified five values leading to America’s success as a constitutional republic
1. Liberty
2. Egalitarianism (equality)
3. Individualism
4. Populism
5. Laissez-faire (leave things alone!)
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So does history ever change?
• Yes—interpretations of past events can change
• The events considered important or unimportant often reflect cultural bias
• Historiography is the study of how history is learned
• Emphasis can be placed on different ideas and events reflected in current events when viewing past events
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Historical Sources
• Primary Sources—eyewitnesses
• Secondary Sources—2nd hand information
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• Is the source reliable?
• Who is behind the source?
• Is there a bias? Can you still use it?
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Who takes care of our sources?
• Librarians• Archivists• Scholars• Historians• Curators• Collectors• Re-enactors
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Are these primary or secondary sources?
• Political cartoon• News article• Textbook• Diary• Your teacher• Photograph• Your parent• Picture album• Map
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More sources
• TV show• Documentary• You-Tube• Website• Furniture• Bullet• Rock• Painting• Portrait• Shopping catalog
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• Comic book• Magazine• Toy• Movie poster• War recruitment poster• Movie• Clothing• Weapon• Campaign button
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“Brushes with History”
• Personal connections or memories
• Classes at school
• Personal experiences
• Family stories
• People
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You are a witness to history—consider your personal timeline
• 1997—NASA lands a probe on the surface of Mars• 1998—Impeachment of President Clinton• 1999—Space Shuttle Discovery docks with International Space Station• 2000—closest presidential election in history • 2001—Terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11• 2002—invasion of Afghanistan• 2003—invasion of Iraq• 2004—Re-election of Bush• 2005—Hurricane Katrina• 2006—Airplanes ban liquids of over 4 oz. on flights• 2007—Beginning of the Great Recession• 2008—World-wide financial crisis, election of Obama• 2009—Tea Party Formed• 2010—Osama Bin Laden killed by U.S. Seals• 2011---Occupy Wall Street• 2012—Re-election of Obama• 2013—Government shut-down• 2014--started studying history with Ms. Calabrese
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Let’s Play Six Degrees of Separation
• President Obama• President Bush• JFK• Elvis• Marilyn Monroe• Princess Diana• Frank Sinatra• 9-11 Victim• General Patton
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AP Test--Format
See other power point on themes periods
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APUSH Homework
• Get Syllabus signed
• List territories in North America before the Revolution for:
Spanish—
French—
Dutch--