MANIFEST DESTINY PATHFINDER GENERAL INFORMATION NAME: Christina Jaynes SCHOOL: Miamisburg High School WORKSHOP LOCATION: Centerville CRC TITLE OF COMPANTION ACTION PLAN: Manifest Destiny GRADE LEVEL: 10 CURRICULUM/SUBJECT AREA: Social Studies/10th grade Honors History SPECIFIC SUBJECT: Manifest Destiny CONTENT INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION (SUMMARY) This pathfinder is designed to guide you to sources that will help you understand the significance of these events or people in the Manifest Destiny of the United States: the westward migration on the Oregon Trail, the Annexation of Texas, the War with Mexico, the settling of the border dispute between Maine & Canada, President James Polkbs term of office. DEWEY DECIMAL NUMBERS The Dewey Decimal System is used by most school and public libraries. If you visit a public library and want to browse for materials on the shelves you should look under these general numbers: 973 U.S. History 974.1 Maine 976.4 Texas 978 Oregon Trail B POL b Biography of James Polk SUBJECT HEADINGS When searching in any type of electronic catalog, you may want to look under the following subject headings: United States b History b 1815-1861 Mexican War, 1846-1848 Oregon Trail Texas - History Maine b History CONTENT CATEGORIES PRINT SOURCES Reference Books R 904.7 FAC Facts about the American wars. New York : H.W. Wilson C1998. R 973 ENC The encyclopedia of American facts and dates by Gorton Carruth. New York : HarperCollins, c1993. R 973 KAN Facts about the states. 2nd ed. New York : H.W. Wilson, C1993. R 973 WOR Worldmark encyclopedia of the States. 5th ed. Detroit : Gale Group, c2001. R 973.02 MOR Encyclopedia of American history by Richard Brandon Morris. New York : Harper, c1953. R 973.03 WOR Worldmark encyclopedia of the States. 3rd ed. New York: Gale Research, c1995. R 973.09 KAN Facts about the Presidents by Joseph Nathan Kane. 7th Ed. New York : H.W. Wilson, c2001. R 973.09 RUB Scholastic encyclopedia of the presidents and their Times by David Rubel. New York : Scholastic, c1997. Books (Non-Fiction) 304.8 FLA Atlas of American migration by Stephen Flanders. New York : Facts on File, c1998. 305.4 GOL Breaking new ground : American women 1800-1848 by Michael Goldberg. New York : Oxford University Press, C1994. 917.804 PAR The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman. Washington : National Geographic, c2002. 972.FOS A brief history of Mexico by Lynn Foster. New York: Facts on File, c1997. 973 BOO A history of the United States by Daniel Boorstin. Needham, MA, c1995. 973 DAV Donbt know much about history : everything you need to know about American history but never learned by Kenneth Davis. New York : Crown, c1990. 973 LIF The sweep westward by Margaret Coit. New York : Time Inc., c1974. 973 OPP Opposing viewpoints in American history. San Diego, CA., c1996. 973.02 GRO The American years : a chronology of United States history. New York : Charles Scribnerbs Sons, c1999. 973.5 HEI Manifest destiny by David Heidler. New York : Greenwood, c2003. 973.5 MCC Army of Manifest Destiny : the American soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York : NYU Press, c1994. 973.6 DUS Slavermaster president : the double career of James Polk. New York : Oxford University Press, c2003. 973.6 HOW Mexican American War by Kelly Howes. Detroit : UXL, c2003. 973.6 KAT The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 by Philip Katcher. New York : Osprey Military, c1976. 973.6 MEX The Mexican War. Discovery Enterprises, c1998. 973.6 MIL U.S. b Mexican War by Bronwyn Mills. New York : Facts on File, c2003. 973.6 SEI James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler. New York : Times Books c2004. 974.1 GOU There goes Maine! : a somewhat history, sort of, of the Pine Tree State by John Gould. New York : Norton, c1990. 976.4 CAM Gone to Texas : a history of the Lone Star State by Randolph Campbell. New York ; Oxford University Press, c2003. 976.4 DOC Lone Star: a history of Texas and the Texans documents of Texas history. Austin, TX : Texas State Historical Association, c2002. 976.4 FEH Lone Star : a history of Texas and the Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach. New York : Da Capo Press, c2000. 978 BUT Womenbs voice from the Oregon Trail : the times the times that tried womenbs souls. Boise, ID, c1994. 978 CHA Dangerous passage : the Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War by William Chalfant. Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, c1994. 978 MOE The Oregon Trail : a photographic journey by Bill Moeller. Missoula, MT, c2001 979.5 MCC Across the Great Divide : Robert Stuart and the discovery of the Oregon Trail by Laton McCartney. New York : Free Press, c2003. B POL James K. Polk : a biographical companion By Mark Byrnes. Santa Barbara, CA, c2001. INFOHIO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Annals of American History Britannica Online American Memory WEB SITES (FOR STUDENTS) Digital History Website b This site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges The Readers Companion to American History (Houghton Mifflin) - An American History database. The Oregon Trail website - Everything you need to know about the trail. Manifest Destiny - A PBS website about the Manifest Destiny. About Texas - Narrative history of the Texas annexation. The Handbook of Texas Online - Texas annexation information. POTUS : Presidents of the United States b you will find information on President James Polk here. WEBSITES (FOR TEACHERS) American Memory/The Learning Page b Lesson plan on the Journeys West - what motivated thousands of people to journey west during the 1800's.