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New American Roles
Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials
Students will learn about the United States' role as the world's only superpower folling the collapse of the Soviet Union, American involvement in the Persian Gulf War, the global war on terrorism that began with the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in this section of the online exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. Americans struggled to define the roles they should play in the community of nations and fought to defend their interests against threats at home as well as abroad. A non-flash version of this site is available: New American Roles.
Historical Thinking Standards (Grades K-4)
Historical Thinking Standard 2: Historical Comprehension
Historical Thinking Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation
3A: Formulate questions to focus their inquiry or analysis.
3B: Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions.
3C: Analyze historical fiction.
3D: Distinguish between fact and fiction.
3E: Compare different stories about a historical figure, era, or event.
3F: Analyze illustrations in historical stories.
3G: Consider multiple perspectives.
3H: Explain causes in analyzing historical actions.
3I: Challenge arguments of historical inevitability.
3J: Hypothesize influences of the past.
Historical Thinking Standard 4: Historical Research Capabilities
4B: Obtain historical data.
Standards in History (Grades K-4)
Topic 3: The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage
4: How Democratic Values Came to Be, and How They Have Been Exemplified by People, Events, and Symbols
United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)
Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
1: Recent developments in foreign and domestic politics
World History Standards (Grades 5-12)
Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes
1: How post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up
2: The search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
3: Major global trends since World War II
Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)
2A: Identify the author or source of the historical document or narrative and assess its credibility.
2B: Reconstruct the literal meaning of a historical passage.
2C: Identify the central question(s) the historical narrative addresses.
2D: Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.
2E: Read historical narratives imaginatively.
2F: Appreciate historical perspectives.
2G: Draw upon data in historical maps.
2H: Utilize visual, mathematical, and quatitative data.
2I: Draw upon the visual, literary, and musical sources.
3A: Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas.
3B: Consider multiple perspectives.
3C: Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
3D: Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues.
3E: Distinguish between unsupported expressions of opinion and informed hypotheses grounded in historical evidence.
3F: Compare competing historical narratives.
3G: Challenge arguments of historical inevitability.
3H: Hold interpretations of history as tentative.
3I: Evaluate major debates among historians.
3J: Hypothesize the influence of the past.
4B: Obtain historical data from a variety of sources.
Multimedia instruction
Thematic approach
Americans at War Learning Resources
September 11: Bearing Witness to History
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War Homepage
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