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Topic 3 Resources Unit I The Constitution and Foundations of Government

Textbook Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics

The Magna Carta

The Petition of Right

The English Bill of Rights

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Spirit of Laws by Baron de Montesquieu

The ...

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Topic 4 Resources Unit II Political Behavior and Participation

Textbook Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics

Movie Recount

Movie Game Change

Disney Educational Productions: The Electoral College

Jeffrey Toobin's The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Susan Faludi's Backlash: The ...

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Topic 5 Resources Unit III Institutions of the National Government

Arthur Schlessinger's Imperial Presidency

Movie Dave

HBO's Path to War

Movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Movie 13 Days

Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

Stephen Ambrose's Rise to ...

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Topic 6 Resources Unit IV Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life ad Legacy Revealed through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley

The Autobiography of...

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Topic 7 Resources Unit V Public Policy and Comparative Government and Economic Systems

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Movie Game Change

Anonymous and Joe Klein’s Primary Colors

Charter of the United Nations

Mother Jones Magazine

James Fallows’ Breaking The ...

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Topic 8 Resources Unit VI State and Local Government

Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men

Movie All the King's Men 

Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom’s The Starfish and the Spider

Bill McCabe’s Deep Economy

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins’ Natural Capitalism

Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in ...

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Topic 9 Resources Unit VII Pennsylvania from Colony to Commonwealth

Randall M. Miller and William Pencak’s Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth

William Penn’s A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin

Senator Arlen Specter’s Life Among Cannibals

Benj...

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