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… ALLAN POE , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Studies at the University of Virginia Poe's Life on … , available via a link from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia In … OF EDGAR ALLAN POE , a link from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia Poe's Life on …
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… White Fang : Nature and Culture Detectives Lesson Plan American Utopia: The Architecture and History of the Suburb Lesson Plan Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History Featured Image Photo caption Wendell Berry …
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… the relatively egalitarian society of America. He warns Americans of the most dangerous tendency of democracy: the …
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… British army stationed in America after 1763 by requiring Americans to buy stamps for newspapers, legal documents, …
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… is available from the National Constitution Center . The American Constitution: A Documentary Record , available via … be done, but the road ahead proved to be a bumpy one. While Americans were glad to be free of British rule, they were … the assignment, which could then be posted online. An alternative way to organize this lesson would be to assign a page …
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… which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African-American youths of rape. Background Harper Lee’s To Kill A … and the audio clips tell them about life for African Americans under Jim Crow laws—what do they learn from …
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… Plantation in the North and South yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … 1862, shows perhaps the largest group of enslaved African Americans ever to be photographed at one time. O'Sullivan …
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… can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times. …
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… is a comprehensive NEH-funded resource on the African American experience during the early 19th century. The … crafter" in the early 19th century? How did African Americans aid in the achievement of freedom for other …
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… estranged from his times by an overriding attachment to the American past? Lesson Extensions To complete this study of … these narrators? Selected EDSITEment Websites Academy of American Poets Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Africans in America Fredrick Douglass The American President Abraham Lincoln The Internet Public …
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… relations with Germany. February 3, 1917. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed Views American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … team 10/01/19 Related Content Lesson Plan African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd …
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… years 1851-1899—available through the EDSITEment resource American Memory as part of the collection Votes for Women … on America's Library , a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory Cartoon of Anthony on Famous American Trials , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed … Birth of Political Parties , Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… 68 women and 32 men had signed a document calling for American women to be extended the same civil and political rights that American men enjoyed, including suffrage. The … between men and women in mid-nineteenth century American society? To what extent are the tone and rhetorical …
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… Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip yes Photo caption American poet ee cummings made vivid use of similes in his … available on the EDSITEment-reviewed web site Academy of American Poets . William Wordsworth, The Daffodils Toi … on the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource Academy of American Poets . Ask students to identify a simile in the …
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… is available through the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . Your students may want to know a little bit … Lift Every Voice website via the EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia . Dickinson … similar hymns sung in church. Explore Alexander Wilson, American Ornithologist , part of the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… Burns chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the … and seldom-seen movie footage. EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia offers … commercial release and distribution set the standard for American documentary films at the time. Lorentz’s poetic …
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… Vietnam War would become the longest military engagement in American history prior to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. … public in the past few years. This makes it possible for Americans and others to gain access and attempt to formulate …
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… jazz. Since its inception in 2001 by the National Museum of American History, Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) has served … and share the historic and cultural contributions of jazz. American Artists Abroad A conga drum, bamboo flute, and … is credited with having a significant influence on Asian American jazz artists. For instance, in 1999, composer and …
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… House of Burgesses, May 1765. Throughout 1787-88, as Americans continued to debate the proposed Constitution, one … and duplicate copies as necessary for student viewing. Alternatively, excerpted versions of these documents are …
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… use in class. Links to graphics on the EDSITEment resource American Memory , which are used throughout this lesson, … embraced the contradictory goals of fair treatment of American Indians and the acquisition by the U.S. of land from the American Indians. Both men led troops in important victories …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … property requirement, though New York kept it for African Americans. Massachusetts, like many states, retained a tax …
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… in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." At the EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory website's Farm Security … Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's virtual exhibition America on the Move . … This is an offensive, slang term to describe an African-American child. The grandmother also users other terms that …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … of the presidential election of 1828. The First American Party System covers such issues and events as the … History , a project of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… in another form? Which jobs are very much the same? An alternative activity would be to have students match the early American job with a picture of a similar modern job. How was … by uncovering objects of the past. Activity 10. An Early American Game (1800–1840) Give your students the opportunity …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed … Birth of Political Parties , Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , a link from the EDSITEment reviewed …
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… and Japanese Incarceration Teacher's Guide Landmarks of American History and Culture Featured Image Photo caption … influences and her start as an anthropologist of the American South. This article was originally published as … writing, and involvement with NEH-sponsored Landmarks of American History and Culture programs. Zora Neale Hurston: …
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… conducting fieldwork for Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology, and for the Works Progress … of folktales: available from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia is the etext … . Available from the EDSITEment resource Documenting the American South are two useful survey essays that situate …
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… and social changes (new roles for women and African Americans in the South). Alongside this modernization of …
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… de la Cruz Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the first great Latin American poet, is still considered one of the most important literary figures of the American Hemisphere, and one of the first feminist writers. … be found through the EDSITEment-reviewed site LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) featured site, the Sor …