Printed Resources

As a first step in its initiative, The Peopling of America has acquired the rights to the existing Americans All^® program resources that were developed during the past two decades by more than 70 experts in education, history and civics, and other related fields. The existing program resources provide teachers, students and parents with comparative information about six historical ethnic and/or cultural groups that helped build our nation—Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Rican Americans. These groups have been identified because of their historically significant influence on our country’s birth and its subsequent growth and development. More than 2,000 schools and libraries nationwide already use these instructional materials, which include texts, teacher’s guides and manuals, and music, posters and photographs. Click on Americans All^® Classroom Materials and Teacher Resources. For sample pages from each publication, click on these PDF links.

The Indian Nations: The First Americans | African American | Asian Americans | European Immigration from the Colonial Era to the 1920s | Mexican Americans | Puerto Ricans: Immigrants and Migrants | American Immigration: The Continuing Tradition | An American Symbol: The Statue of Liberty | Ellis Island | Angel Island | The Peopling of America: A Timeline of Events That Helped Shape Our Nation | Student Background Essays | The Peopling of America: A Teacher’s Manual for the Americans All^® Program | Teacher Guides to Learning Activities—K–2 | Teacher Guides to Learning Activities: 3–4 | Teacher Guides to Learning Activities: 5–6 | Teacher Guides to Learning Activities: 7–9 | Teacher Guides to Learning Activities: 10–12 | The Peopling of America: A Synoptic History | A Simulation: The Peopling of America | Music of America’s People (with accompanying CD) and Guide | The American All^® Photograph Collection | The Americans All^® Poster Collection

The national organization will distribute these curriculum resources, at no cost, to K–12 public and private schools that choose to participate in Americans All^®. The quantity of existing program resources that schools receive will depend on student enrollment. A small quantity will be reserved to cover schools that later decide to participate or that have been reorganized with new leadership.

Americans All^® also calls for state-specific program resources that are modeled after some of the existing program resources. These printed curriculum resources will be based on the Electronic Databases built for each state. The materials can be used to update or supplement textbooks in order to address students’ needs more effectively and reduce dependency on the generic content of most published textbooks. The content of the state-specific printed resources will fully support state standards and curriculum frameworks that local school districts use.

As part of the initiative, each state will prepare a timeline publication of the political and social and cultural histories of the state, a state poster and a state photograph collection with accompanying teacher’s guide. The Peopling of America will fund researchers and editors to help prepare the state-specific printed resources. It will also print and deliver these curriculum resources to all K–12 public and private schools in the state. The copyrights to all state-created materials will remain with the original sources.

Americans All^® Classroom Materials and Teacher Resources