HISTORY PLAYS

Several teen-level magazines publish history plays.  Most plays employ large casts and are accompanied by lesson plans and quizzes.  

Titles are in subject chronology. Y indicates that RLMS LMC owns a class set of a play.  Titles without a Y are available at the LMC or via ICONN Digital Library.  See LMC staff for assistance. 

Class Set?	Title	Magazine	Date
N	Theseus and the Minotaur	Calliope	1-2008
Y	The Dangerous Truth [Socrates and Plato]	Junior Scholastic	9-29-08
Y	Last Days of Pompeii	Junior Scholastic	1-27-05
Y	Greek vs Greek [5th century Athens vs Sparta	Junior Scholastic	9-19-11
Y	First Emperor (Octavian of Rome)	Junior Scholastic	9-29-03
Y	De Soto's Dream	Junior Scholastic	9-1-08
Y	Coronado and the Cities of Gold	Junior Scholastic	9-6-04
Y	Ponce de Leon	Junior Scholastic	9-1-03
N	Columbus:  Voyage that Changed the World	Junior Scholastic	9-3-01
N	Henry Hudson Captain Courageous?	Junior Scholastic	9-6-02
Y	Mayflower Compact	Junior Scholastic	9-5-05
Y	Puritan Protester:  Anne Hutchinson	Junior Scholastic	9-15-08
N	Trial of the Century [Anne Hutchinson]	Cobblestone	11-2003
Y	New Amsterdam New: World Company Town	Junior Scholastic	9-19-05
Y	From Slavery to Freedom	Junior Scholastic	10-11-10
Y	The French & Indian War	Junior Scholastic	11-18-04
N	Sam Adams: Father of the Revolution	Junior Scholastic	10-4-02
Y	Our Founding Fathers	Junior Scholastic	10-31-05
Y	Tom Paine: Working a Powerful Change	Junior Scholastic	10-15-07
Y	Boston Tea Party	Junior Scholastic	10-10-11
Y	Boston Massacre	Junior Scholastic	11-15-04
Y	General Washington's Spectacles [Newburgh, 1782]	Junior Scholastic	11-23-09
N	Declaring Independence	Junior Scholastic	11-29-01
Y	Neither Equal or Free [Slavery and the Constitution]	Junior Scholastic	9-5-11
N	Making the Constitution	Junior Scholastic	11-1-02
Y	Fight for the Bill of Rights	Junior Scholastic	10-27-03
Y	The Barbary Pirates A war against high-seas thievery helps transform the U.S. into a naval power. [1783]	Junior Scholastic	12-8-08
Y	The Journey of Lewis and Clark [1804]	Junior Scholastic	11-21-2011
Y	Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves	Read	11-16-07
Y	Muddy Boots!  [President Andrew Jackson]	Junior Scholastic	1-19-2009
Y	Confessions of Nat Turner [Slave Revolt 1831]	Junior Scholastic	12-13-04
Y	Trapped The Donner Party	Junior Scholastic	3-22-10
Y	The Runaway Scrape [Texas Revolution	Junior Scholastic	1-18-10
Y	Lowell Mill Girls	Junior Scholastic	10-24-03
N	Golden Mountain [Chinese Exclusion Act 1848]	Junior Scholastic	3-25-02
Y	Abraham Lincoln's Team of Rivals	Junior Scholastic	2-2-09
Y	This Means War!  [Civil War, 1861]	Junior Scholastic	2-7-2011
N	Black Soldiers in the Civil War	Junior Scholastic	2-7-03
N	Red Badge of Courage [Adaptation]	Read	1-17-03
Y	Antietam	Junior Scholastic	1-19-04
Y	The Road to Re-Union [Civil War]	Junior Scholastic	1-21-08
Y	Last Best Hope [Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation]	Junior Scholastic	2-7-05
Y	Helen Keller Beyond the Darkness	Junior Scholastic	3-1-2010
Y	Nelly Bly's 1887 Investigation of Mental Institutions	Read	10-17-2008
Y	Extra Extra: 1899 Newsboy's Strike	Junior Scholastic	2-16-2009
Y	The Lone Eagle [Charles Lindbergh]	Junior Scholastic	4-4-2011
Y	Fannie Lou Hamer, a Sharecropper's daughter form Mississippi risked everything for the right to vote.	Junior Scholastic	3-7-05
Y	Stolen Children [Child Labor 1904]	Junior Scholastic	2-27-2012
Y	The Garden at 97 Orchard Street [Tenement life]	Read	1-9-2009
Y	The Triangle Factory Fire	Junior Scholastic	3-14-11
Y	Teddy Roosevelt The First Environmental President	Junior Scholastic	1-10-2011
Y	War Takes a Holiday [WWI Christmas truce]	Read	12-11
Y	The Christmas Truce [World War I]	Junior Scholastic	12-7-2009
Y	Charles Lindbergh Lone Eagle	Junior Scholastic	5-6-02
Y	Iron Jawed Angels [Women's Suffrage]	Junior Scholastic	2-9-04
Y	Wide Open Skies:  Amelia Earhart	Read	3-14-08
Y	Amelia [Earhart]	Junior Scholastic	10-5-09
Y	Before the Rain Came [Dust Bowl]	Read	11-27-09
Y	Behind Barbed Wire [Japanese Internment]	Junior Scholastic	3-22-04
N	Hannah Szenes: Song of Light  [Holocaust]	Read	11-2002
Y	I Want To Live [Holocaust Hungary]	Junior Scholastic	4-18-2011
Y	Daniel's Story [Holocaust]	Read	2-27-2009
Y	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler [Holocaust]	Junior Scholastic	4-13-2009
Y	Surviving the Holocaust	Junior Scholastic	4-26-2010
Y	Eleanor Roosevelt	Junior Scholastic	3-2-2009
Y	Eye on America [Dorothea Lange, depression era photographer]	Junior Scholastic	9-7-09
Y	Blacklisted!  McCarthy and Entertainment	Junior Scholastic	5-8-06
Y	You're Fired [Truman vs. MacArthur in Korea]	Junior Scholastic	5-20-2010
Y	Viva la Revolution!  [Castro in Cuba	Junior Scholastic	4-27-2009
Y	Brown vs. Board of Education	Junior Scholastic	4-26-04
Y	The Legacy of Rosa Parks	Junior Scholastic	11-28-05
Y	Play Ball-- Jackie Robinson	Junior Scholastic	4-16-07
Y	Battle to Integrate Central High School	Current Events	2-6-04
Y	Freedom Riders	Junior Scholastic	5-9-2011
Y	The Little Rock Nine -- Integration of Central High	Junior Scholastic	9-3-07
Y	Warriors Don't Cry [Integration of Central High]	Read	2-8-9008
Y	American History: The '60s	Junior Scholastic	5-10-04
Y	Sitting for Freedom [1960 Greensboro Four]	Junior Scholastic	2-8-10
Y	Watergate: The Downfall of a President	Junior Scholastic	5-14-2012

 

JACKDAWS  are primary source materials including photos, letters, diaries, newspapers, and other historical documents.  The LMC owns the following titles.    1950s A Time of Change - Photo Collection 1960s Triumph and Turmoil - Photo Collection  American Indians, Early Boarding Schools - Photo Collection  The American Revolution  Boston Massacre  Boston Tea Party to the American Revolution  California Gold Rush: 1849  China: A Cultural Heritage  Civil War  Civil War Album - Photo Collection  Civil War: Young Soldiers  Columbus and Explorers Come to the New World  Cowboys: The Old Trail Days  Depression -- Broadsheets and historical documents  Depression Hits Home - Photo Collection  Ellis Island -- Photo Collection  French & Indian War  Holocaust  Holocaust Children -- Photo Collection  Holocaust:  Kristallnacht -- Photo Collection  Immigration 1870-1930  Immigration in Colonial Times Immigrant Tenement Life New York City 1890-1920 -- Photo Collection  Japanese American Internment  Japanese American Internment: Life in the Camps - Photo Collection Jim Crow Era  Lewis & Clark Expedition 1804-1806  Louisiana Purchase  Making of the Constitution  Marco Polo Journey to China  Mayflower & the Pilgrim Fathers  Modern Immigration New Deal:  America Goes Back to Work -- Photo Collection  Reconstruction Roaring 20s -- Photo Collection  Salem Village and Witch Hysteria  Secession  Segregation Before Civil Rights  Shakespeare's Theatre  Silk Road Slavery in the United States  Story of the Declaration of Independence Struggle for Civil Rights - Photo Collection Struggle for Women's Rights in America Trail of Tears  Transcontinental Railroad Built by Immigrants -- Photo Collection  Tutankhamun & the Discovery of the Tomb  Vietnam War  War of 1812 World War I War in the Trenches -- Photo Collection World War II at Home -Photo Collection

KITS Picture Packs by the National Geographic Society Each 3 ring binder includes 40 color transparencies + booklet.

PICTURE BOOKS   Ancient History     Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu by Emily McCully (E MCC) Cleopatra  by Diane Stanley  (B CLE) Confucius:  The Golden Rule by Russell Freedman  (181.11  FRE) I am the Mummy Heb-Nefert (E NEF) Rome Antics by David McCauley (E MAC) Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs by Tamara Bower (398.2 BOW) Who Built the Pyramids? by Meredith Cooper (932 COO) Saladin Noble Prince of Islam  by Diane Stanley  ( B SAL) Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by  James Rumford (B CHA) Travelling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354  by James Rumford  (B IBN)   Exploration and American and World History (in chronological order):     Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus by Peter Sis (B COL) 1607 A New Look at Jamestown by Karen E. Lange (73.21 LAN)  not really a pic book, but great illistrations Man Who Made Time Travel  [John Harrison and Longitude]  (526.62 LAS) All in a Day [Time zones and longitude]  (E ANN) Sarah Morton's Day : a Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate WALTERS  (974.402 WAT) The Revolutionary John Adams by Cheryl Harness  (B ADA) Let it Begin Here Lexington & Concord (973.33 FRA) Paul Revere's Midnight Ride by Stephen Krensky  (973.33 KRE) George Did It [Washington]   by Suzanne Jurmain  (B WAS) Valley Forge by Richard Ammon (973.33 AMM) When Washington Crossed the Delaware:  A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots by Lynne Cheney (973.33 CHE) Dolley Madison Saves George Washington  by Don Brown (B MAD) Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin  by Gene Barretta  (B FRA) The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence by Judith St. George (973.31 STG) A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution by Betsy and Giulio Maestro (342.73 MAE) We the Kids:  The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States by David Catrow (342.73 CAT) The U.S. Constitution by Kathy Allen (342.73 ALL)  We are America:  A Tribute from the Heart by Walter Dean Myers (E MYE) By the Dawn's Early Light: The Story of the Starred Spangled Banner by Steven Kroll (E KRO) An American Army of Two  by Janet Greeson   [easy reader War of 1812]  (E GRE) Boy Who Saved the Town [War of 1812] by Brenda Seabrooke  (E SEA) Amistad Rising:  The Story of Freedom by Veronica Chambers (E CHA)   Note: Also in Bookroom Moses:  When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Weatherford (E WEA) Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson [Quilts and Underground Railroad] (E WOO] Grandfather's Journey [Japanese American Immigration] by Allan Say (E SAY) The Great Migration [African Americans by Jacob Lawrence and Walter Dean Myers (759.13 LAW) A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark by David Adler  (991.7.  ADLl) Lewis and Clark Explorers of he American West by Steven Kroll (917.8 KRO) How We Crossed the West:  The Adventures of Lewis and Clark by Rosalyn Schnazer (917.8 SCH) I Have Heard of a Land  [Settling the Oklahoma Territory] by Joyce Thomas  (E THO) Dandelions [Settling the West, Sod House] by Eve Bunting (E BUN) Quest for the West:  In Search of Gold by Peter Kent (E KEN) Mr. Lincoln’s Party by Karen Winnick  (E WIN) Thunder at Gettysburg by Patricia Gauch  (E GAU) Pink and Say  [Civil War boys from  opposing sides] by Patricia Polacco (E POL) The Silent Witness A True Story of the Civil War by Robin Friedman (E FRI) Mama Went to Jail for the Vote by Kathleen Karr (E KAR) Ida B. Wells:  Let the Truth Be Told [1861-1931] activist, journalist, suffragette (B WEL) Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers (E MEY) Jazz by Walter Dean Myers (E MYE) Angels in the Dust [Dustbowl] by Margot Raven (E RAV) Jesse Owens Fastest Man Alive by Carole Weatherford (E WEA) A Nation's Hope:  The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Lewis by Kadir Nelson (B LOU) Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan (E RYA) Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World  by Douglas Wood (E WOO) So Far from the Sea [Manzanar War Relocation Camp] by Eve Bunting (E BUN) Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki [Japanese Internment] (E MOC) Heroes by Dom Lee [442 Regimentall Combat Team, All Japanese-American Army] E MOC Home of the Brave [Japanese Internment] by Allen Say (E SAY) The Unbreakable Code [Navaho Code Talkers in WWII]  by Sara Hunter (E HUN) Across the Blue Pacific: A World War II Story by Ribert Parker (E BOR) Hiroshima No Pika [the Flash of Hiroshima] by Toshi Maruki  (E MAR) Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (B PAR) Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation by Andrea Davis Pinkney (E PIN) Sit-In:  How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Nadrea Davis Pinkney  (E PIN) Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles (E WIL) We Troubled the Waters [poems and paintings about Civil Rights] by Ntozake Shange (811.54 SHA) Patrol:  An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers (E MYE) The Wall:  Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (B SIS) The Wall [Vietnam Memorial] by Eve Bunting (E BUN) How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story  [Wet Feet/ Dry Feet]  By Eve Bunting (E BUN)   Geography and Culture     14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy (E DEE) All in a Day [Time zones and longitude]  (E ANN) The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky  (639.27 KUR) Man Who Made Time Travel  [John Harrison and Longitude]  (526.62 LAS) The Orphan Boy [Massai folktale] by Tolowa Mollel Red Land Yellow River: A Story From the Cultural Revolution  by Ange Zhang (951.05 ZHA)  The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlansky (553.63  KUR) Tea With Milk by Allen Say (E SAY)  Japanese culture   Holocaust     Always Remember Me How One Family Survives WWII  by Marisabina Russo (940.53 RUS) Anne Frank by Josephine Poole (B FRA) The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco  (E POL) Child of the Warsaw Ghetto by David Adler (E ADL)  The Children We Remember by Chana Abells (E ABE) Hilde and Eli Children of the Holocaust by David Adler (E ADL) Memories of Survival [Holocaust in Poland, Primary sources ] by Esther Krinitz (940.53 KRI) The Number of my Grandfather’s Arm by David Adler (E ADL) One Candle by Eve Bunting (E BUN) Passage to Freedom:  The Sugihara Story [A Japanese family saves Lithuanian Jews] (B SUG) Terrible Things:  An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting (E BUN)

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