--Stephen J. Thornton
Standard accounts of U.S. history present a chronology of events that begins in the East and moves west. An alternative approach traces Spanish exploration and settlement in what is now the American Southwest.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011319.pdf [1]
Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7701/77011319.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/general-us-history
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/pre-colonial-colonial
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/social-education
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/secondaryhighschool
[6] http://www.socialstudies.org/geography
[7] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory