[farmer18th]

With which Social Studies textbooks at the High School level?

I wouldn't use any textbooks. I would stick to primary sources--journals, newspaper accounts, autobiographies. (I admit these can be tough resources to collect; when I first started buying up history books, I found that the average retail bookstore has more biographies of Marilyn Monroe than they do copies of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography). It can, however, be done. If you use a history textbook for the early republic, you might try www.interloc.com or www.abebooks.com to find textbooks that were written prior to 1900. Some of those are really good.