{"id":4846,"date":"2021-09-27T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/?page_id=4846"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:04:06","slug":"government-primary-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/government-primary-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Primary Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990;\">HIGH SCHOOL GOVERNMENT<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(by week) <b> <\/b><div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">LEVEL 5, Year 2<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 1<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/medieval\/magframe.asp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Magna Carta<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/instituteofcatholicculture.org\/events\/principles-of-liberty\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ICC-Principles of Liberty: A Study of the Magna Carta<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (lecture)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2014\/03\/reading-american-founding-documents.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReading the American Founding\u201d by Bradley J. Birzer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Adams, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/thompson-revolutionary-writings#lfAdams_label_023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dissertation on Feudal and Canon Law<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomas Gordon, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/gordon-a-discourse-of-standing-armies-1722\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Discourse of Standing Armies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Demophilus, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lutz-american-political-writing-during-the-founding-era-1760-1805-vol-1#lfHyneman-01_head_081\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Genuine Principles of the Ancient Saxon, or English Constitution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addison, Cato: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/henderson-cato-a-tragedy-and-selected-essays#lf0714_head_205\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Tragedy<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamilton, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lodge-the-works-of-alexander-hamilton-federal-edition-vol-1#lf0249-01_head_009\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remarks on the Quebec Bill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dickinson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_004\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_006\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 3\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_011\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 8<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_012\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 9<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley\u00a0 (\u00bd)<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 2<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_013\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 10\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/lee-empire-and-nation-letters-from-a-farmer#lf0010_head_015\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 12<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Edmund Burke, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/canavan-select-works-of-edmund-burke-vol-1#lf0005-01_head_006\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speech on American Taxation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2019\/12\/edmund-burke-dignity-human-person-bradley-birzer.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEdmund Burke and the Dignity of the Human Person\u201d by Bradley J. Birzer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samuel Sherwood, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/sandoz-political-sermons-of-the-american-founding-era-vol-1-1730-1788--5#lf0018-01_head_045\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Church\u2019s Flight into the Wilderness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #1, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_172\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIntroduction\u201d by Alexander Hamilton<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #47 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_243\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe meaning of the maxim, which requires a separation of the departments of power, examined and ascertained\u201d by James Madison<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2017\/11\/conservatives-liberals-view-federalist-george-w-carey.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHow Conservatives and Liberals View <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Federalist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d by George Carey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (essay)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/becker-the-declaration-of-independence-a-study-on-the-history-of-political-ideas#lf0034_head_009\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Declaration of Independence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2012\/08\/how-to-read-declaration-of-independence-m-e-bradford.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHow to Read the Declaration of Independence\u201d by M. E. Bradford<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (essay)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/page\/1778-articles-of-confederation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Articles of Confederation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Federalist #2 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_174\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cConcerning Dangers from Foreign Force &amp; Influence\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #9 James Madison\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_189\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic Faction and Insurrection\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #10 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_191\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same Subject continued<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors:<\/b> Brave New World (\u00bd)<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 3<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #37 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_231\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cConcerning the difficulties which the convention must have experienced in the formation of a proper plan\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/page\/1787-us-constitution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Constitution Article I<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Federalist #51 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_250\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe same subject continued, with the same view, and concluded\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #57 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_257\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe same subject continued, in relation to the supposed tendency of the plan of the convention to elevate the few above the many\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #62 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_264\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cConcerning the constitution of the senate, with regard to the qualifications of the members; the manner of appointing them; the equality of representation; the number of the senators, and the duration of their appointments\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #63 James Madison <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_265\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA further view of the constitution of the senate, in regard to the duration of the appointment of its members\u201d<\/span><\/a>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2010\/09\/federalists-and-anti-federalists.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFederalists and Anti-Federalists\u201d by Bradley J. Birzer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/page\/1787-us-constitution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Constitution, Article II<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Federalist #68 Alexander Hamilton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_273\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe view of the constitution of the president continued, in relation to the mode of appointment\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #70 Alexander Hamilton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_279\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe same view continued, in relation to the unity of the executive, and with an examination of the project of an executive council\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federalist #72 Alexander Hamilton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_285\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe same view continued, in regard to the re-eligibility of the president\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/page\/1787-us-constitution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Constitution, Article III<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Federalist #78 Alexander Hamilton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_293\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA view of the constitution of the judicial department in relation to the tenure of good behaviour\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/page\/1787-us-constitution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Constitution, Articles IV-VII<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ; <\/span><b>(Your State Constitution)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/1791-us-bill-of-rights-1st-10-amendments-with-commentary\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bill of Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Federalist #84 Alexander Hamilton <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/title\/jay-the-federalist-gideon-ed#lf1631_label_312\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cConcerning several miscellaneous objections\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky<b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/b><\/p><\/div><div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">LEVEL 6, Year 1<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 1<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 1, \u201cThe Origins of the Postwar International System\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Roots of Postwar Politics\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Legacies of World War II\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 2 \u201cPresident Harry S Truman\u2019s Advisers Discuss the Atomic Bomb, May 1945\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAtomic Scientists Urge an Alternative Course, June 1945\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cU.S. Science Advisers Endorse Dropping the Bomb, June 1945\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUndersecretary of the Navy Ralph Bard Urges Alternatives, June 1945\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGeneral Leslie Groves Reports on a Successful Test, July 1945\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Essay: \u201cThe Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Essay: \u201cHiroshima: Historians Reassess\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hprweb.com\/2010\/08\/the-catholic-holocaust-of-nagasaki-why-lord\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Catholic Holocaust of Nagasaki\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2010\/08\/made-in-america-massacring-innocents-of.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMade in America: Massacring the Innocents of Nagasaki\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2010\/08\/guest-post-nagasaki-bombing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGuest Response: The Bombing of Nagasaki\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read 1984 by George Orwell\u00a0 OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville<\/p>\n<p><b>Optional Suggested Reading: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0by Paul Glynn and Shusaku Endo; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Making of the Atomic Bomb<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Richard Rhodes<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 2<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 3, \u201cPresident\u00a0 Harry S. Truman and His Advisors Debate U.S. Policy Toward the U.S.S.R., April 1945\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRussian Premier Joseph Stalin Defends Soviet Policy in Eastern Europe, April 1945\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSecretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Urges a Conciliatory Approach, July 1946\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhite House Aide Clark M. Clifford Summarizes the Case for the Hard Line, September 1946\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Truman Doctrine, March 1947\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUndersecretary of State Dean Achison Calls for Economic Aid to Europe, May 1947\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe President\u2019s Advisors Urge Military Expansion, April 1950\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPresident Truman and His Advisors Determine the United States\u2019 Response to the Invasion of South Korea, June 26 1950\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSoviet Unilateralism and the Origins of the Cold War\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAn Exaggerated Threat and the Rise of American Globalism\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students may want to read selections from Ch. 4 for insights into the unique economic and social ideas introduced in the 1950s. Parents should preview.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read 1984 by George Orwell (?) OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (?)<\/p>\n<p><b>Optional Suggested Reading: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 3<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 5, \u201cFidel Castro Denounces U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, 1960\u201d and \u201cPresident Kennedy Calls for an Alliance for Progress, 1961\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA Board of Inquiry Reports on the Bay of Pigs, 1961\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPresident Kennedy and His Advisors Debate Options in the Missile Crisis, October 16, 1962\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSoviet Premier Nikita Kruschev Appeals to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962\u201d &amp; \u201cAnastas I Mikoyan and Fidel Castro Review the Crisis, November 3-4, 1962\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSpinning Out of Control: Kennedy\u2019s War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAftermath\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 6 \u201cMichael Harrington Describes the \u2018Other America,\u2019 1962\u201d and \u201cPresident Lyndon B. Johnson Declares War on Poverty, 1964\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c[President] Ronald Reagan Warns of the Dangers of the Welfare State, 1964\u201d; \u201cA Liberal Cartoonist Worries That Johnson Has Abandoned the Welfare State\u201d; \u201cTwo White House Aids Report the Achievements of the Great Society, 1966\u201d;\u00a0 \u201cPoverty in America, 1959-1997: A Graphic\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWas the Great Society a Lost Opportunity\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrom Opportunities to Entitlement\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: Read <\/b><b><i>1984 <\/i><\/b><b>by George Orwell (?) OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (?)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Optional Suggested Reading: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Robert F. Kennedy <\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">LEVEL 6, Year 2<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 1<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 7 \u201cThe <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Reports a Murder in Georgia, 1946\u201d; \u201cMalcom X Recalls Getting a \u2018Conk,\u2019 1964\u201d; \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown vs. Board of Education<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1954\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFranklin McCain Remembers the First sit-In, 1960\u201d; \u201cMartin Luther King, Jr., \u2018I Have a Dream,\u2019 1963\u201d; \u201cStokely Carmichael Explains \u201cBlack Power\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA Senate Committee Reports on Campaign Against Martin Luther King, Jr., 1976\u201d &amp; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa.upenn.edu\/Articles_Gen\/Letter_Birmingham.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLetter from a Birmingham Jail\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cKing As Disturber of the Piece\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Continuing Racial Crisis\u201d Optional Video: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXjfZkJ2qos&amp;t=2s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ta-Nehisi Coats and John McWhorter Discuss and Debate Black Hip-Hop Culture and Racism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 8 \u201cThe Vietnamese Declare Their Independence, 1945\u201d; \u201cState Department Advisors Debate U.S. Support for French in Vietnam, 1949\u201d; \u201cPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory, 1954\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFinal Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, 1954\u201d; \u201cNguyan Tan Thanh, a South Vietnamese Peasant, Explains Why He Joined the Vietcong (1961), 1986\u201d; \u201cThe Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPresident Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Advisors Debate Expanding the War, 1965\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLieutenant Marion Lee Kempner, a Young Marine, Explains the War, 1966\u201d and \u201cWrong Rambo! A Vietnam Veteran Looks Back, 1985\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Cold War and American Intervention in Vietnam\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Meaning of Vietnam\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read All the King&#8217;s Men by Warren (?) OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (?)<\/p>\n<p><b>Optional Suggested Reading: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Grunt Padre: Father Vincent Robert Capodanno, Vietnam, 1966-1967 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Father Daniel L. Mode;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 2<\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 12 \u201cPresident Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of the American Spirit, 1979\u201d and \u201cPresidential Candidate Ronald Reagan Calls for New Economic Policies, 1980\u201d; \u201cPresident George Bush Seeks a Kinder, Gentler Nation, 1989\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Republican \u2018Contract With America,\u2019 1994\u201d; \u201cPresident Bill Clinton Signs a Bill to \u2018End Welfare as We Know It,\u2019 1996\u201d; \u201cA Liberal Post-Mortem on the 1996 Election\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Mobilization of American Business\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDemocrats and Republicans Forge a New Political Economy\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major Problems\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ch. 13 \u201cPresident Ronald Reagan Denounces the Soviet Empire as an \u2018Evil\u2019 Empire, 1982; \u201cU.S. Military Spending: A Graphic\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA Congressional Committee Reports on Irangate, 1987\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/speeches\/reagan-parliament.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Ronald Reagan Addresses the British Parliament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; \u201cSoviet Leader Mikhail Gorbechev Charts a New Direction for the U.S.S.R.\u201d; \u201cThe New York Times Announces the End of the Cold War, 1989\u201d; \u201cPresident George Bush Declares a New World Order, 1990\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRonald Reagan\u2019s Cold War Victory\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReagan and the Russians\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReagan and Central America\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch-up<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read All the King&#8217;s Men by Warren (?) OR Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (<b>?)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Optional Suggested Reading: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(for the ambitious\/motivated student) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Pope and a President <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Paul Kengor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">Term 3<\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJohn Paul II CENTESIMUS ANNUS, 1991\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 INTRODUCTION 1-3; I. CHARACTERISTICS OF &#8220;RERUM NOVARUM&#8221; 4-7<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I. 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STATE AND CULTURE 44-52<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">V. STATE AND CULTURE 53-62<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2016\/08\/rerum-novarum-church-free-market-james-baresel.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDoes the Church Oppose the Free Market\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Honors: <\/b>Read All the King&#8217;s Men by Warren (?) 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