History Briefs

 “Halloween” includes all the same great historical content of our "History of Halloween" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the origins of Halloween, trick-or-treating, traditional Halloween foods and games, Jack o’ Lanterns, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, black cats, spiders, bats, Halloween around the world, and much, much more. 

“Christmas” includes all the same great historical content of our "History of Christmas" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Students will learn about the origins of Christmas, as well as the history connected to the following topics: Santa Claus, Christmas trees, traditional Christmas foods, Christmas cards, caroling, candy canes, the Magi, Christmas pageants, the twelve days of Christmas, Christmas literature, and much, much more. 

 “Holidays & Other Related Topics” includes all the same great historical content of our "Holiday Round-Up" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Students will learn about the origins and traditions associated with the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, Fathers’ Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and much, much more. 

“The Age of Explorers” includes the same great historical content as our "Age of Exploration" teacher’s manual in a fun compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Vasco de Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Coronado, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, a close look at the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures, and much, much more. 

“The American Colonies” includes all the same great historical content of our "Colonial America" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Roanoke, Jamestown, John Smith, Pocahontas, Triangular Trade, the Pilgrims, Squanto, Massachusetts Bay, Colonial Daily Life, Slavery in Colonial America, the Salem Witch Trials, and much, much more. 

“The American Revolution” includes all the same great historical content as our American Revolution teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the French & Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, “Common Sense”, the Declaration of Independence, “The Crisis”, The Battle of Saratoga, Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, and much, much more. 

“Early American History” includes all the same great historical content as our "Early America" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the Northwest Ordinance, Daniel Boone, the Second Great Awakening, the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution, the Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Farewell Address, the Alien & Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the War of 1812, and much, much more. 

“Andrew Jackson” includes all the same great historical content as our "Age of Jackson" unit without the student activities.  This volume is available in kindle only. Topics include: Andrew Jackson's early life,  the Election of 1828, Mudslinging, the Peggy Eaton Affair, the Kitchen Cabinet, the Spoils System, the Indian Removal Act, the Trail of Tears, and much, much more. 

"Jacksonian America & Westward Expansion” includes all the same great historical content as our "Andrew Jackson" history brief plus all of our amazing Westward Expansion information.  Topics include: the Oregon Trail, the California Gold Rush, the Mormon Trail, the Donner Party, the Pony Express, the invention of the telegraph, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Golden Spike,  and much, much more. 

"Path to Civil War" includes all of the same great historical content as our "Road to Civil War" teacher's manual, without the student activities.  Topics in this volume include information about slavery, the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, the pre-Civil War Presidents, secession... and much more! 

"The Old West" includes all the same great content as our two "Old West" teacher's manuals without the student activities.  Topics in this volume include the Post-Civil War Indian Removal, western settlement, Little Bighorn, cowboys, cattle trails, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Texas Rangers, Judge Isaac Parker, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley.... and much more!

"America in the Gilded Age" includes all the same great content as our "Gilded Age" teacher's manual without the student activities.  Topics in this volume include the Robber Barons, and famous inventors such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla.  There is also a look at American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, as well as yellow journalists like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer.... and much more!

 “Theodore Roosevelt” includes all the same great historical content as our "Early 20th Century" unit without the student activities.  This volume is available in kindle only. Topics include: The Rough Riders, Trust Busting, Teddy's battle against the railroad and coal industries, food and drug regulations, conservation efforts, the Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary, the Bull Moose Party, the election of 1912, and much, much more. 

 “Progressive America & World War I” includes all the same great historical content as our "Teddy Roosevelt" history brief, but also includes additional information about the Progressive Era, as well as our World War I content.  Topics include the Muckrakers, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, How the Other Half Lives, the 16th Amendment, and 17th Amendment.  World War I topics include the causes of the war, weaponry, the war at home, and much more.

 "The Roaring Twenties" includes all of the same great historical content as our “Roaring Twenties” teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: prohibition, speakeasies, the Red Scare, the Tea Pot Dome scandal, flappers, the Scopes Trial, electricity, radio, automobiles, jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, and much, much more. 

"The Great Depression & the 1930s" includes all of the same great historical content as our “Great Depression” teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the stock market crash, Hoovervilles, Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, the Dust Bowl, black blizzards, Okies, the demagogues, radio in the 1930s, big band music, movies, and much, much more. 

"World War II" includes all of the same great historical content as our "World War II” teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the rise of Adolph Hitler, the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Stalingrad, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the Holocaust, and much more!

"The 1940s & The Korean Conflict" includes all of the same great historical content as our "Forties” teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Harry Truman, the election of 1948, the Korean Conflict, Howard Hughes, Roswell, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Robinson, and much more!

"The 1950s" includes all of the same great historical content as our "Fifties" teacher's manual without the student activities.  Topics include: Dwight Eisenhower, Brown v. the Board, Emmett Till, the Little Rock Nine, Rosa Parks, McDonald's, Disneyland, Rock n' Roll, Elvis Presley, television, I Love Lucy, Jim Brown, Mickey Mantle, and much more!

"The Cold War" includes all the same great historical content of our “Cold War” teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the Soviet Union, the Truman Doctrine, Cold War spies, civil defense, fallout shelters, the Korean Conflict, the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and more. 

 “The 1960s” includes all the same great historical content as our "1960s vol. 1 and 2" teacher’s manuals in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the Kennedy Administration, the Johnson Administration, the Space Race, the British Invasion, Vietnam, the Counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, Woodstock, the Super Bowl, the 1968 presidential election, and much, much more. 

 “The 70s & 80s” includes all the same great historical content as our "1970s & 1980s" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Richard Nixon, Watergate, the Wounded Knee Incident, the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, the bicentennial celebration, the Camp David Accords, the oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Iran-Contra affair, the end of the Cold War, and much, much more. 

“The 90s & 2000s” includes all of the same great historical content as our “1990s & 2000s" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Bill Clinton, the Branch Davidians, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the world wide web, the Columbine Massacre, the 2000 presidential election, the September 11thterrorist attack, the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, the presidential election of 2016, and much, much more. 

“African Americans” includes all of the great content from BOTH of our African American History teacher’s manuals in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: the Middle Passage, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Buffalo Soldiers, the Jim Crow laws, Booker T. Washington, Brown v. The Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Civil Rights Movement, and much more. 

“Women in American History” includes all of the great content from BOTH of our Women in American History teacher’s manuals in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Daily Life in America, activists and reformers, the Women's Suffrage Movement, the 19th Amendment, governors, Congresswomen, First Ladies, athletes, authors, entertainers, the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, and much more. 

“Landmark Supreme Court Decisions” includes all the same great historical content as our "The Great Supreme Court Cases" teacher’s manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Marbury v. Madison, Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. The Board, Loving v. Virginia, Tinker v. Des Moines, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, an introduction to the history and procedures of the US Supreme Court, and more. 

"The Executive Branch & The Election Process" includes all of the same great content as our "President & Executive Branch" teacher's manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities.  Topics include the roles of the president, the First Lady, the Secret Service, the president's cabinet, the White House, and Air Force One.  This volume also includes information about the election process and the Electoral College and much more!

"United States Congress" includes all the same great content as our "The Legislative Branch" teacher's manual in a fun, compact size and without the student activities.  Topics include a history of the United States Congress, how a bill becomes a law, congressional committees, congressional procedures, offices, a history of the US Capitol Building and much more!

“Oklahoma History” includes all of the great content of BOTH of our Oklahoma History teacher’s manuals in a fun, compact size and without the student activities. Topics include: Indian Removal, the Five Civilized Tribes, the Civil War in Indian Territory, the Chisholm Trail, the Boomer Movement, the land run, statehood, the Tulsa Race Riot, the Dust Bowl, oil booms (and busts), the Oklahoma City Bombing, and much, much more.