EARLY NATION

Topics include the Panama Canal, anti-imperialism, Mark Twain and American life, Japanese immigration, world diplomacy, President Roosevelt, minority (anti-lynching) issues, causes of the Spanish-American war, and religion.

Photographs: Johnson and McNamara, Ho Chi Minh, the airborne Seventh Cavalry, demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Tet offensive, the protest at Kent State, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and anti-war demonstrators in London.

Each packet contains 12 primary sources (photographs, documents, editorial cartoons, works of art, prints) and a 20-page guide with four complete lessons.

Topics include removal of Japanese Americans to internment camps, rationing, the writing of Ernie Pyle, women in the workforce, the election of 1944, homefront letters written by women, political cartoons at the war’s end, and the religious leadership of Norman Vincent Peale.

Topics include the Beanie Baby boom, Operation Desert Storm, law and order (the Twinkie defense), collapse of communism, Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, the Branch Davidians at Waco, and first ladies Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Topics include the 1987 stock market crash, yuppies, homelessness, immigration, the invasion of Grenada, Bernhard Goetz, Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition, the "Reagan revolution," the Moral Majority and the Christian Right, and Sally Ride.

Topics include the Arab oil embargo and the energy crisis, Roots, busing in Boston, Vietnamese immigration, detente and SALT, Lieutenant Calley and My Lai, Arthur Ashe, Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Topics include the Homestead strike, P.

Topics include transportation, Indian removal, slave life, German immigration, the American Colonization Society, abolitionists, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the Second National Bank, the Second Great Awakening, and Angelina Grimke.