How Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”

How History, Government, and Social Studies Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”

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How Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”

How STEM and Economics Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”

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How Teachers Can Make the Most of “The Dust Bowl”

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Thomas Jefferson becomes Secretary of State

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September 26, 1789
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Lesson 1: The First American Party System: U.S. Political Parties: The Principle of Legitimate Opposition
Lesson 2: The First American Party System: A Documentary Timeline of Important Events (1787–1800)
Lesson 3: The First American Party System: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans: The Platforms They Never Had
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We The People

American author Upton Sinclair born

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September 20, 1878
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History Now: The Jungle and the Progressive Era
Chronicling America: Upton Sinclair Tells About the Sufferings of Women in Packingtown

Novelist James Fennimore Cooper born

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September 15, 1789
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Picturing America: N.C. Wyeth illustration for Last of the Mohicans
Picturing America on Screen: Wyeth/Rockwell
New Mexico Centennial Online Atlas of Historic Maps

Atlas of Historic New Mexico

NEH affiliate New Mexico Humanities Council's online Atlas of Historic New Mexico maps contains twenty historic maps of New Mexico, annotated with descriptions by the map makers and others people living, working, and exploring in New Mexico at that time.

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Know LA image of carpetbaggers (cartoon)

KnowLA

KnowLA is a comprehensive, dynamic online reference guide to the history and culture of Louisiana. Discover artist and naturalist John James Audubon with The Birds of America image gallery and video.

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The novel “Native Son” by Richard Wright published

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February 29, 1940
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The Wright Connection
Slavery by Another Name still

"Slavery by Another Name"

Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute, NEH-funded documentary challenging one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film is viewable online and the website enriched with an interactive map and timeline with text, videos, photos, a searchable selection of themes, enriched with clips, commentary, and more.

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