Resources for the Introduction

Additional Resources for Teaching in an Inquiry-Based History Classroom

Why Don’t You just Tell Us the Answer: Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12  by Bruce Lesh (2011). View on Amazon

Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, 2nd ed. by James W. Loewen (2018). View on Amazon

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Herbert Kohl (2007). View on Amazon

Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay (2018). View on Amazon

Prompting Deeper Discussions: A Teacher’s Guide to Crafting Great Questions by Matthew R. Kay (2024). View on Amazon

Essential Classroom Resources

Although each chapter includes specific resources tailored to its content, the following books, documentaries, and websites provide invaluable primary sources, visual materials, and context that support the inquiry-based approach throughout this book.

Documentaries/Video

• Eyes on the Prize (Civil Rights Movement) – pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize
• Slavery and the Making of America (PBS) – pbs.org/wnet/slavery

Primary Source Databases

• Library of Congress (American Memory collections, Chronicling America) – loc.gov
• National Archives – archives.gov/education
• Digital History – digitalhistory.uh.edu

Museums & Collections

• National Museum of African American History and Culture – nmaahc.si.edu
• Smithsonian Learning Lab – learninglab.si.edu
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – nypl.org/locations/schomburg

Teaching Resources

• Zinn Education Project – zinnedproject.org
• Facing History and Ourselves – facinghistory.org
• Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) – learningforjustice.org
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – gilderlehrman.org
• 1619 Project – 1619education.org

Reference Books for Students

• The African American Odyssey
  Library of Congress reference
  View on Amazon
• Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
  Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah
  View on Amazon
• Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction
  American Social History Project
  View on Amazon
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
  Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
  View on Amazon
• March (graphic novel trilogy)
  John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  View on Amazon
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass
  View on Amazon
• A Young People’s History of the United States
  Howard Zinn, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
  View on Amazon