Resources
Look here for resources that are discussed during the workshops. If you have websites or another resource to recommened to the participants please email us at grant-history@udel.edu.

JFK and the Cold War

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JFK Video/DVD:

  • JFK: A Presidency Revealed, (2003) History Channel: 2 discs, approximately 5 hours.  The most recent documentary on the Kennedy years.
  • JFK Remembered: A Special Look at John F. Kennedy’s 1,000 Days as President, (1988) Hosted by Peter Jennings, ABC News, Vestron Video, 54 minutes.
  • Jack: The Last Kennedy Film, (1993), CBS/Fox Video, 90 minutes.  Unusual documentary narrated by friends and associates of JFK’s.
  • The Making of the President: 1960.  A classic documentary based on Theodore H. White’s book.  Not available but check with JFK Library. Great footage on the 1960 campaign, especially the first Kennedy-Nixon debate.
  • Primary: The Robert Drew Collection, (2003), Docu Rama Video/New Video Group, Inc. 53 minutes.  Classic documentary footage on the Wisconsin Primary.  No narration, but extremely useful for examining the old primary system.
  • Crisis: The Robert Drew Collection, (2003)  New Video Group, Inc. 53 minutes.  Excellent footage of the 1963 struggle to desegregate the University of Alabama.
  • The PBS President’s Collection: The Kennedys – The American Experience, DVD.  Excellent study of the Kennedy family including JFK’s presidency and careers of Robert and Edward Kennedy.
  • JFK’s American University Speech: “Toward a Strategy of Peace,” May 1963.  Video available from the JFK Library.
  • Vietnam: A Television History: American Mandarin, 1954-1963.  Excellent coverage of Vietnam crisis under Eisenhower and JFK.



Jeffersonian America

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Revolutionary War

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Films about Revolution:

  • Mary Silliman’s War
  • Martha Ballard
  • Johnny Tremain
  • Revolution!
  • Liberty!
  • Last of the Mohicans
  • The Crossing

Books about Revolution:

  • “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party”, Alfred Young
  • “The Way of Duty”, Richard Buell



Reform in the Progressive Era

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Books on the Progressive Era:

  • “The Search for Order”, Robert Wiebe
  • “Education and the Cult of Efficiency”, Callahan
  • “Protecting Soldiers and Mothers”, Theda Skocpol
  • “Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform”, Robin Muncy
  • “Pitied but not Entitled”, Linda Gordon
  • “Atlantic Crossings”, Daniel Rodgers
  • “How the Other Half Lives” (1890), Jacob A. Riis



World War II

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Reconstruction

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FDR: The Great Depression & The Coming of WWII

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1950s Resources

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