American Senior High School

18350 NW 67th Avenue, Hialeah, FL

Mr. Anthony Perno & Mr. Victor Wisniski


 

Primary Historical Sources

1.     Garrison: The Liberator

2.     Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

3.     William Lloyd Garrison Renounces War

4.     Garrison justifies Organization Against Slavery

5.     Defense of Slavery As a Benefit to Society

6.     Calhoun’s Positive-Good Theory of Slavery

7.     The Destiny of a Race, Thomas Hart Benton

8.     The Missouri Compromise

9.     The Wilmot Proviso

10.  Compromise of 1850

11.  Calhoun’s Last Speech (1850)

12.  Seward on Compromise (1850)

13.  The Georgia Platform (1850)

14.  Howell Cobb’s Letter to Georgia Unionists

15.  An Anonymous Georgian, “Plain Words”

16.  Resolutions of the Nashville Convention

17.  Emerson on The Fugitive Slave Law

18.  Appeal of the Independent Democrats

19.  Garrison, On the United States Constitution

20.  Kansas-Nebraska Act

21.  Lincoln on the Know-Nothings

22.  The Dred Scott Decision

23.  Lincoln’s “House Divided” Speech

24.  Lincoln - Douglas Debates

25.  Lincoln Disclaims Everything

26.  Seward’s Irrepressible Conflict Speech

27.  Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown

28.  John Brown from the Docket

29.  Horace Greeley on John Brown’s Raid

30.  1860 Campaign Song: Lincoln and Liberty

31.  Platform of the Constitutional Party 1860

32.  Republican Party Platform 1860

33.  Democratic Party Platform 1860

34.  Democratic Party (Southern) Platform 1860

35.  Angry Southerner writes of Lincoln

36.  Howell Cobb to the People of Georgia 1860

37.  South Carolina Causes of Secession

38.  South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

39.  Floyd County Resolutions on Secession

40.  Lincoln’s Letter to Stephens on Slavery

41.  James Buchanan on Secession

42.  The Folly of the South (Congressional Speech)

43.  Crittenden Pleas for Peace

44.  Crittenden Compromise 1860

45.  Jefferson Davis on Secession

46.  Lincoln on Secession

47.  Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

48.  Editorial in Cincinnati Commercial

49.  Lincoln Replies to Horace Greely

50.  Lincoln proposes an amendment on Slavery

51.  The Emancipation Proclamation

52.  The Gettysburg’s Address

53.  Senator Sherman on Nationalism

54.  A Whig Account of the New York Draft Riots

55.  Sherman to the Defenders of Atlanta

56.  Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Syllabi

·         Cambridge American History

·         Advanced Placement Government and Politics

·         Advanced Placement European History

·         Advanced Placement Macroeconomics

·         Advanced Placement Human Geography

Textbooks

School Calendars

Source Evaluation Documents and Tools

·         Virginia Fornication Laws

·         Massachusetts School Law

·         William Penn on Government

·         The Four Turnings

·         Historical Methods

·         Causes of the Civil War

·         Teaching Source Evaluation #01

·         Analyzing Primary Sources

·         Reading a Primary Source

Law Studies

·         Hearsay and Exceptions

·         When and How to Object

·         Vocabulary

·         State of Florida v. Jamie Olsen

·         Sal Lantro v. Gates County School District

·         Corrections: Sal Lantro Case

·         State of Florida v. Marla Manning

·         Corrections: Marla Manning Case

·         Pat Christianson v. W. J. Bryan High School

·         Gallo v. Urbanksi

Favorite Essays

·         The Death of Benny Paret, by Norman Mailer

·         H. L. Mencken On Pedagogy

·         [Orwell and Huxley Today], Neil Postman

Human Geography

·         Syllabus

·         Course Goals

·         Essay: Nine Billion by 2300

Favorite Historical Microcosms

·         On Search and Destroy, Michael Herr

·         On the Pioneer Spirit, David Milch

Prurient History

A Strange Case of Bestiality, William Bradford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examinations

Macroeconomics

Government and Politics

Human Geography

Modern European

Cambridge

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