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December 2012
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Americans were shocked by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, yet the outbreak of war came as no surprise to seasoned observers of international affairs. Read more »
Colorful holiday customs sure to brighten the classroom this season … hold a fiesta … make and break piñatas … discover the origins of the posadas … display poinsettias … light luminarias. Read more »
Why was the Bill of Rights necessary to secure and fulfill the goals of the American Revolution and the principles of the Declaration of Independence? Use this lesson and interactive map! Read more »
A new lesson: Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: Crucible of Images! Discover how Steinbeck took 1930s Farm Service Administration photographs and transformed them into pictorial prose …
A new student interactive on Mark Twain’s biting satire on American civic life, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg …
Learn how Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimké changed the nation. Get ready with these teaching resources. Read more »
Emily Dickinson: A Poet for All Seasons
The Belle of Amherst welcomes winter “hearty—as a Rose.” This December 10, celebrate the baker-gardener-poet’s birthday with her original Black Cake recipe!
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