Conflict Resolution and United States History is a two-volume curriculum supplement for U.S. history teachers for grades 5 through college. It includes 20 case studies of conflicts in American history from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Each volume also includes a CD with primary source documents, overheads, student handout, maps and illustration, as well as a DVD showing middle and high school students role-playing historical figures using conflict resolution skills. Each case study provides a detailed historical background, short biographies of key historical figures, an examination of the issues and perspectives, and an analysis of the consequences, along with questions for discussion and a list of additional resources. It is written for the teacher and you only need one copy per teacher.

The materials have been edited by the authors, John Whiteclay Chambers, II, distinguished historian at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Arlene L. Gardner, executive director of the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law-Related Education, with the help of more than 200 teachers and the following prominent historians:

Volume One: The Colonial Period through Reconstruction

• Native Americans and European Colonists:
  • Quakers and Lenni Lenape (Gary Nash, UCLA, and Max Carter, Guilford College)
  • Could mediation have avoided King Philips War? (Jill Lepore, Harvard University, and James Merrell, Vassar College)
• The Revolution (Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
  • The First Continental Congress Decides how to respond to Britain in 1774
  • Could the American Revolution have been Avoided: British and Colonist Negotiations, 1775
• Slavery and the Constitutional Convention (Jack Rakove, Stanford University, and Paul Finkelman, University of Akron Law School)
• Cherokee Removal (J.B. Finger, University of Tennessee, and James Merrell, Vassar College)
• The War between Mexico and the United States (George Sanchez, University of Southern California, and Pedro Santoni, California State University at San Bernardino)
• The Compromise of 1850 (Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia)
• Women's Rights in the 19th Century (Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University, and Linda Kerber, University of Iowa)
• Post-Civil War Reconstruction (Eric Foner, Columbia University, and Clement Alexander Price, Rutgers-Newark)

Volume Two: The Gilded Age through the Twentieth Century

• War in 1898 (Louis Perez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Labor Relations during the Industrial Era:
  • The Pullman Strike (Sheldon Stromquist, University of Iowa)
  • The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 (Steve Golin, Bloomfield College)
• U.S. Entry into World War I (Harriet Hyman Alonso, City College of New York)
• Immigration Restrictions and the National Origins Act of 1924 (Virginia Yans, Rutgers, The State University)
• Rosie the Riveter versus G.I. Joe: Women in the Workforce after World War II (Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University)
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Deborah White, Rutgers University, and J. Mills Thornton, III, University of Michigan)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (Thomas Paterson, University of Connecticut)
• The U.S. and the War in Vietnam (Melvin Small, Wayne State University)
• The 1992 Los Angeles Riots (George Sanchez, University of Southern California)