Literary texts
- Chicago
- Nightshade
- The Crucible
- Ambush
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Literature is an important resource for understanding social studies. Though social and historical articles can provide context and analysis, it is stories – both real and fictional – that can best convey personal insight and experience. We have provided several such stories as well as a number of poems throughout the book. They act as windows into the worlds we are describing.
Web resources
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Carl Sandburg - Chicago poems
(carl-sandburg.com) -
Dashiell Hammett
(pbs.org) -
Arthur Miller
(pbs.org) -
Interview: Author Tim O'Brien
(pbs.org) -
Jonathan Safran Foer
(theguardian.com) -
Jonathan Safran Foer on Facebook
(facebook.com)