Resources for Teaching High School Economics
Council on Economic Education
• Virtual Economics • Capstone• Focus: Understanding Economics
in Civics and Government• Learning, Earning and Investing• Focus: Understanding Economics
in U.S. History• Great Economics Mysteries Book
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: FRED
Teaching Tools for Micro and Macro Economics
Economic Episodes in American History: Wohl Publishing
Features
• 32 chapters focused on an economic episode• Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the economic way of
thinking • All other chapters can stand alone• Complete Teacher’s Guide including answer to the Questions
for Discussion, correlations to national standards, a teaching activity for each chapter, assessments including constructed response and multiple choice items for each chapter.
• Available in multiple formats: print, online, customized
Chapter Organization
• Framing the Issue (with a personal story)
• Key Economic Concepts (Box)• The Historical Context• The Economics of the topic• Historical Questions and
Economic Answers• Primary Source• Then and Now• Complete Teacher’s Guide
with summaries, standards, assessments and activities.
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 1 How Can Economics Illuminate History? • CHAPTER 2 Why Did the British Colonies Succeed
Economically—Without Finding Gold and Silver?• CHAPTER 3 Why Did John Harrower Sell Himself into
Bondage?• CHAPTER 4 Why Did the American Colonists Fight When They
Were Safe, Prosperous, and Free? • CHAPTER 5 How Did the U.S. Constitution Provide a Road
Map to Economic Prosperity? • CHAPTER 6 Turnpikes, Canals and Railroads: What Did We Do
Before Interstate Highways? • CHAPTER 7 Was Slavery a Market Institution?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 8 The Civil War and Lee’s Dilemma: Why Fight a War When the North’s Economy Was So Much Stronger?
• CHAPTER 9 How Did the Civil War Change the U.S. Economy?• CHAPTER 10 The Homestead Act of 1862: Was Free Land
Really Free? • CHAPTER 11 Did the Comanche and Other American Indians
Favor Communal Ownership? • CHAPTER 12 Why Did Frank H. Mayer and His Fellow Hunters
Kill Buffalo, Almost to Extinction? • CHAPTER 13 Did Railroads Cause the Economy of the Late
1800s to Grow? • CHAPTER 14 Hard Currency: Sound Money or Cross of Gold?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 15 Were the Robber Barons Robbers or Barons? • CHAPTER 16 Why Did the 19th-Century Monopolies
Disappear?• CHAPTER 17 How Did Financial Panics Lead to the
Establishment of an Independent Central Bank? • CHAPTER 18 Who Was the Titanic Baby and Where Was He
Going? • CHAPTER 19 What Made the Roaring Twenties Roar,
Economically: Real Growth or a Stock Market Bubble?• CHAPTER 20 Why Did a Mild Recession in 1929 Become the
Great Depression of the 1930s? • CHAPTER 21 Was the New Deal Good for the U.S. Economy?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 22 The Economics of Union Membership: Solidarity Forever?
• CHAPTER 23 Did Rosie the Riveter Win the Battle for Working Women?
• CHAPTER 24 Why Did the Economy Grow after World War II? • CHAPTER 25 Who Desegregated Major League Baseball:
Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson? • CHAPTER 26 How Did the Marshall Plan Become a Model for
Foreign Aid Programs? • CHAPTER 27 What Were the Origins of the African American
Middle Class?
Table of Contents
• CHAPTER 28 Why Did Communism Collapse?• CHAPTER 29 How Did the Economy Influence Presidential
Elections in the Stagnant Seventies? • CHAPTER 30 Is the Information Revolution as Big as the
Industrial Revolution? • CHAPTER 31 Is Free Trade Out of Date? • CHAPTER 32 Is the Growth of the Federal Government Good
for the Economy?
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