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APUSH) SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2014/2015 Ms AP US HISTORY (APUSH) SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2014/2015 Ms. Young [email protected] SUGGESTED READINGS *Remember you really should read one of these books in addition to Founding Brothers. You will thank me later! The Killer Angels – by Michael Shaara Undaunted Courage – by Stephen Ambrose Confederates in the Attic – by Tony Horwitz Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times – by H. W. Brands 1776 – by David McCulloch Seabiscuit: An American Legend- Laura Hillenbrand Water for elephants – by Sara Gruen Under the Banner of Heaven – John Krakauer March – by Geraldine Brooks The Help – by Kathryn Stockett Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy – by Jules Tygiel Somebody Knows My Name – by Lawrence Hill The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood – by Jane Leavy Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillendbrand Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown Founding Mothers – by Cokie Roberts Team of Rivals – by Doris Kearns Goodwin Lies My Teacher Told Me – by James W. Loewen Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougalss – by Frederick Douglass The Greatest Generation – by Tom Brokaw Devil in the White City – by Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts – by Erik Larson The Rape of Nanking – by Iris change Triangle: the Tire that Changed America – by David von Drehle We Were Soldiers Once…and Young – by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway A Rumor of War – by Philip Caputo Lonesome Dove – by Larry McMurtry At the Hands of Persons Unknown – Phillip Dray Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America – Laura Wexler SUGGESTED MOVIES *The movies are divided by historical eras. I have also placed the rating next to the movie. You can find a synopsis of the movies on imdb.com. Discuss watching these movies with your parents before viewing. Also, many of these titles may be available at Montgomery County Public Libraries. (Some may also be on youtube.) YOU ARE REQUIRED TO WATCH TWO OF THE MOVIES AND COMPLETE A CAPTURE SHEET FOR EACH ONE. THE CAPTURE SHEET IS PROVIDED IN THIS PACKET. Exploration 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992/PG-13) The New World (2005/PG-13) Apocalypto (2006/R) Black Robe (1991/R) Colonial America The Crucible (1996/PG-13) Last of the Mohicans (1992/R) Jefferson in Paris (1995/PG-13) Revolutionary War 1776 (1972/G) Johnny Tremain (1957-Approved) The Red Badge of Courage (1951/Approved) John Adams (HB0 movie) The Howards of Virginia (1940-Approved) The Patriot (Rated R-2000) Revolution (PG-13-1985) Slavery Roots (TV mini-series) Amistad (1997/R) Slavery and the Making of America (2005 Documentary) The Journey of August King (1995/PG-13) Pre- Civil War Jeremiah Johnson (1972/PG) The Color Purple (1985/PG-13) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987/TV Movie) Civil War Lincoln (2012) Gettysburg (1993/PG) Andersonville (1996/Made for TV) Glory (1989/R) North and South (1985/TV mini-series) Gone With the Wind (1939/Approved) Shenandoah (1965/Approved) Cold Mountain (2003/R) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976/PG) The West and the Last West & Native Americans The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962/Unrated) Lonesome Dove (1989/TV mini-series) Into the West (2005/TV mini-series) Comanche Moon (2008/TV mini-series) Open Range (2003/R) Shane (1953/Unrated) Fort Apache (1948/Approved) Paint Your Wagon (1969/PG-13) How the West Was Won (1962/PG) Unforgiven (1992/R) Dances with Wolves (1990/PG-13) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007/HBO) Drums Along the Mohawk (1939/ Approved) I Will Fight No More Forever (1975/Not Rated) Little Big Man (1970/Not Rated) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993/PG-13) High Noon (1952/PG) The Ballad of Little Jo (1993/R) Far and Away (1992/PG13) Tombstone (1993/R) Wyatt Earp (1994/PG-13) Turn of the Century America Hawaii (1966/TV MA) Rough Riders (1997/TV Movie) Eight Men Out (1988/PG) Far and Away (1992/ PG-13) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944/G) Ragtime (1981/PG) Avalon (1990/PG) Iron-Jawed Angels (2004/TV Movie) Wizard of Oz (1939/G) World War I Sergeant York (1941/Approved) All Quiet on the Western Front (1979/TV Movie) War Horse (2011/PG-13) The 1920s The Great Gatsby (1974/PG) Once Upon a Time in America (1984/R) Miller’s Crossing (1990/TV MA) The Untouchables (1987/R) The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967/Unrated) The Great Depression Cinderella Man (2005/PG-13) The Grapes of Wrath (1940-Unrated) Places in the Heart (1984/PG) Road to Perdition (2002/R) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000/PG-13) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969/PG-13) The Color Purple (1985/PG-13) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008/G) World War II Band of Brothers (2001/HBO mini-series/TV MA) The Pacific (2010/HBO mini-series/TV MA) Saving Private Ryan (1998/R) Patton (1970/Unrated) Fat Man and Little Boy (1989/PG-13) Windtalkers (2002/R) Flags of Our Fathers (2006/R) Schindler’s List (1993/R) The Devil’s Arithmetic (1999/TV Movie) Conspiracy (2001/R) Casablanca (1942/PG) The Tuskegee Airmen (1995/PG-13) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006/R) Come See the Paradise (1990/R) The Young Lions (1958/Approved) Casablanca (1942/PG) Shining Through (R/1992) From Here to Eternity (TV14/ 1953) Cold War October Sky (1999/PG) On the Beach (1959/Approved) Guilty by Suspicion (1991/PG-13) Fail Safe (2000/TV Movie) Thirteen Days (2000/PG-13) The Manchurian Candidate (1962/PG-13) The Hunt for Red October (1990/PG) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964/PG) The Day After (1983/TV Movie) Rocky IV (1985/PG) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1958/Not Rated) Good Night and Good Luck (PG/2005) The Day After Trinity (NR/1981) Truman (PG/1995) The Manchurian Candidate (Approved/1962) Civil Rights Era Boycott (2001/PG) The Long Walk Home (1990/PG) 4 Little Girls (1997/Documentary w/ some graphic images) Mississippi Burning (1998/R) Miss Evers Boys (1997/PG) Ghosts of Mississippi (1996/PG) Hairspray (1988&2007/PG) Murder in Mississippi (1990/TV Movie) Malcolm X (1992/PG-13) Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974/TV Movie) Nothing but a Man (1964/ Not Rated) Remember the Titans Glory Road Unionization Harlan County, USA (1976/Documentary/PG) Norma Rae (1979/PG) Matawan (1987/PG-13) The 1960s Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987/PG) Platoon (1986/R) Born on the Fourth of July (1989/R) We Were Soldiers (2002/R) A Bright Shining Lie (1998/R) The Hanoi Hilton (1987/R) The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life or Robert McNamara (2003/PG-13) The Deer Hunter (1978/R) American Graffiti (1973/PG) Easy Rider (1969/R) Glory Road (2006/PG) A Raisin in the Sun (1961/Approved or 2008 TV Movie) JFK (1991/R) The Graduate (1967/Approved) The 1970s & 80s to the Present All the President’s Men (1976/R) Silkwood (1983/R) Frost/Nixon (2008/R) Miracle (2004/PG) Remember the Titans (200/PG) Lone Star (1996/R) Sometimes a Great Notion (1970/Not Rated) Almost Famous (2000/R) Wall Street (1987/R) American History X (1998/R) Bowling for Columbine (2002/R) Lions for Lambs (2007/R) Charlie Wilson’s War (2007/R) Zero Dark Thirty (2012/R) .
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