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… Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore yes Photo … available through the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Internet Public Library. Lesson Activities Activity 1. An … the animals offers aid only in return for a favor or service provided by the human. Students should be able to …
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… Lesson 3: Lost Hero: Was John Hanson Actually the First President? yes Photo … the powers and limits of the three branches of government, public officials, and bureaucracies at different levels in … or contrast between Hanson and Washington, and then create one pair of “side-by-side” pages for a double …
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… 2017 Jefferson Lecture: Martha C. Nussbaum Video A More Perfect Union Art & Culture … audiences alike, Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of … in the field of international development, helping to create new ways of assessing human well-being and advocating …
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… The Papers of the War Department Video A More Perfect Union … Closer Reading Debate and Diplomacy During the Early Republic Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First … Peace Content The Papers of the War Department project was created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New …
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… Lesson 1: How "Grand" and "Allied" was the Grand Alliance? yes Photo caption … had been absolute ruler of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for more than a decade and a half. During …
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… Lesson 4: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narration, Voice, and the … had planted the tree of liberty and made possible a great republic. (24) What is the significance of "blood" in this … Compson children's childhoods? Assessment Ask students to create a reading journal, noting details such as Faulkner's …
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… Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant … were ranked third because they made goods or offered services used by the people in daily life activities. They … with prohibitions and obligations for every class, created a system of checks on the power of all classes. This …
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… Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart yes Photo caption A spiral … of the novel's events and the time of its writing and publication, you can refer to the following … for Africa" (1880-1910) and the Berlin Act of 1885, which created a set of European-controlled nation-states that …
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… Twain & American Humor yes Photo caption Mark Twain, pondering … these websites to learn more about how Samuel Clemens created the "character" of Mark Twain, author. "The … maps available at the EDSITEment-reviewed National Parks Service: A Link to the Past: United States in 1830 United …
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… BackStory: You've Come A Long Way—A History of Women in Politics Audio A More … Film Featured Image Photo caption United States Postal Service commemorative stamp of Shirley Chisholm, issued in 2014. United States Postal Service Civil War (1860-1865) Interwar Period (1920-1939) …
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… Where I Come From yes Photo caption Statue of Liberty, New York. Library of Congress In … that are part of their family history. Ask students to create a family "travel log" with one page set aside for … Internet Resources General News, Sports, and Information Services Africa Online allAfrica.com Access to current news …
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… Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's Introduction March … laws and otherwise influences government, but it also “creates opinions” and “gives birth to sentiments” in society … and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic Materials & Media Democracy in America: Alexis de …
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… Veterans Speak: War, Trauma, and the Humanities yes Photo caption … on the history, experience, or meaning of war and military service called Standing Together: The Humanities and the …
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… The Crisis of American Diplomacy, 1793–1808 yes Photo caption Execution of … removed said deserters for re-entrance into British service. Known as impressment, this practice amounted to the … deeply concerned members of the emerging Democratic-Republican political coalition. Many insisted on the notion …
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… Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before … Students can use narrative and descriptive strategies to create lively accounts of the lives of American workers … Countries That Invented the Industrial Revolution Internet Public Library The American Experience Anesthesia Cotton Gin …
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… Romare Bearden's "The Dove": A Meeting of Vision and Sound yes … in an interview. At the end of this lesson, students will create an art magazine that answers those questions. Part 1 … will need copies of the following, some of which are in the public domain. Many are also available on CDs in local …
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… The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal … colonies drafted the Declaration of Independence to announce their intended separation from England, they also … and Anti-federalist Debates on Diversity and the Extended Republic Lesson Plan The Constitutional Convention: Four …
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… Lesson 2. Hopi Poetry yes Photo caption Hopi Blue Corn Wikimedia Commons Hopi culture is deeply rooted in the arid … favorite places. Activity 2. Hopi Poetry Analysis Begin by announcing in Hopi culture, cornfields are places of great …
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… Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature yes Photo … Revere House , a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library, skipping (for now) any sections specifically … Coming of Independence: Key Events (timeline) National Park Service: Links to the Past Yorktown Biographies Lesson Plan …
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… Lesson 3: The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign yes Photo caption Pitcher … of 1824, a new two-party system began to emerge. Strong public reaction to perceived corruption in the vote in the … images, including symbols, were combined with text to create a particular persona or "political image" of William …
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… Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the … Paterson by William Carlos Williams Walt Whitman sought to create a new and distinctly American form of poetry. As he … Educator Resources Photo Analysis Worksheet Internet Public Library Bartelby.com Walt Whitman PBS Modern American …
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… Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New … of Sion's Savior in New England , 1654. English migrants created the colony of Massachusetts Bay by constructing … map of Virginia (a link on EDSITEment's Link: National Park Service ). Several articles on Smith's map and the Founding …
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… A Day for the Constitution yes Photo caption Image of the … or is enacted faithfully by the government, the American public, and on an individual level. That is, have you upheld … remained an issue, so the 9th and 10th Amendments were created to assuage concerns. To what extent, however, have …
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… Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America yes Photo caption … the war. Housing construction in the cities centered on public housing while in the suburbs builders concentrated on … about the new suburban region? What sorts of problems were created and for whom? Step 4. Each group should choose one …
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… Presidential Inaugurations: A Capitol Parade on a Cold Winter's Day … are available at the American Academy of Public Broadcasting and Voices of Democracy . Famous …
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… Twelve Angry Men: Trial by Jury as a Right and as a Political … government, as central to their definition of republican liberty. As David J. Bodenhamer explains: "A local … the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any …
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… Presidential Inaugurations: I Do Solemnly Swear yes Photo caption … Andrew Jackson, having opened the White House to the public—in keeping with a tradition started by Jefferson—was … or that more requirements for the inauguration should be created? Activity 3. Sometimes It's Okay to Swear (or at …
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… The Mexican Revolution: November 20th, 1910 March 19, 2012 yes Photo … Its main purpose was to establish a democratic republic and to abolish unlimited presidential terms. By early … it, both the art and culture of Mexico were put at the service of society and the ideals of the Mexican Revolution. …
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… African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil … of Afro American History Boston , a link from Internet Public Library From National Park Service: Links to the Past Background: Beacon Hill Boston …
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… After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the … information is available in the historical sources they created. NCSS.D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from … In addition to assembling albums of family photographs, the public sought to collect images of celebrities… "It was …