Primary+Resources

 >  Historical inquiry rests on primary sources. As educators, collecting and organizing these relative and useful documents are one task - distributing them, still another. Below are those pertaining to our Turning Point that can be used to build units, lessons, and instructional modules. > __ Teaching Like a Historian Categories __ >      1. Cause and Effect: > [|Foreign Policy] (ND)Brief overview of Cold War > [|Cold War Causes and Effects including maps and graphs] (JRF) > > > >  2. Change and Continuity: > > > 3. Turning Points: > > > 4. Through Their Eyes: > [|Khrushchev's remarks about his meeting with Kennedy] (ND) Provides insight into how Khrushchev > viewed his American > [|Major player accounts of the CMC]-(JRF) > [|Kennedy Tapes](jf)- recordings of conferences during Cuban Missile Crisis > > 5. Using the Past: > >  > > = General Resources = [|Library of Congress](jf)-home page for all library resources [|Storycorps](jf)- a collection of first hand accounts on various topics [|Library of Congress Teacher page](jf)-page designed for teachers with lessons and activities [|Veterans History Collection](jf)-a collection of first hand accounts from soldiers of various wars [|Voices of Civil Rights](jf)-Civil rights site with many primary sources [|Speech Bank] (jf)- A collection of from different sources [|Thinkfinity]- (jf) an online Education search engine [|Historyplace]- (jf) an online collection of resources on various topics
 * 1) Primary Resources

=Cold War Resources= [|Kennedy Tapes](jf)- recordings of conferences during Cuban Missile Crisis [|Cold War Activity] (jf)- an activity for students to aid in understanding of Cold War tensions [|Kruschev letter to JFK during Cuban Missle Crisis] (jf) [|JFK Library] (jf) -many resources on JFK including a timeline of Cuban Missle Crisis [|NSA Cold War Documents] (jf)- collection of cold war documents [|Interactive Cold War Photo from EXCOMM Conferences] (jf) [|Cuban Missile Crisis Lesson Plan with Primary Documents] (jf) http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa103197.htm (jf) [|Cuban Missile Crisis] (jf) -all-inclusive site that includes biographical information, documents and event information [|Possible DBQs or Debates on the cold war]- (JRF)- Presents questions about the cold war and provides resources to research. [|Castro Photos]- (JRF)- Photos of Castro throughout differing time periods. [|Castro Bio] (JRF)- Story of Fidel Castro's life. [|Cuban Missile Crisis](JRF)- Timeline of events, and character descriptions of the Cold War. [|Castro's History Will absolve Me speech]- Famous speech by Castro  [|McNamara's Role in the CW]     (DT)- Resources of McNamara [|Cold War Museum] (RWW)- Research resources for the CW [|History of Cuba 1950-] (JRF)- Cuban History