Enjoy a more complete and personal My Name Is America experience with your class - or at home, with our book-by-book Discussion Guides. Each Guide features an Introduction for the discussion leader, a Summary of the book, Questions designed to encourage conversation, a number of Student Activities related to the book and its period, and an Interview with the book's author.
My Name is America and Dear America
A Thematic Discussion Guide
The Journal of
William Thomas Emerson

A Revolutionary War Patriot
The Journal of James Edmond Pease
A Civil War Union Soldier
The Journal of Joshua Loper
A Black Cowboy
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins:
A World War II Soldier
The Journal of Ben Uchida
Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp
The Journal of
Sean Sullivan

A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
The Journal Augustus Pelletier
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung
A Chinese Miner, California, 1852
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce
A Pilgrim Boy, Plymouth, 1620
The Journal of Otto Peltonen
A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
The Journal of Biddy Owens
The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948
The Journal of Jesse Smoke
A Cherokee Boy
The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds
The Donner Party Expedition, 1846


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