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… Students begin with a case study including alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of … Finally, discuss how an historian might use these alternative accounts of the Chicago Fire. What is the advantage … atrocities? a study of the wartime experience of African American soldiers? a review of teenage life in the …
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… documents, all available on the EDSITEment resource American Memory : Read the brief declaration and the chart … an army can be raised when one is needed? Keep in mind the American distaste for standing armies. In the Declaration of … an army, but raising one …" "A significant weakness in the American position was the disunity of the country. In the …
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… one of Crane's best works and a wonderful example of American literary naturalism. In this lesson, students will … to Stephen Crane's biography and contextualize him in American literary history, using the biographies and other … Internet Public Library. From the Library of Congress American Memory Project A dinghy lifeboat Another dinghy …
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… using An Interview with Max Morath, from the website The American Experience—WayBack U.S. History for Kids – … in the world will the future bring?" on the website The American Experience—Wayback U.S. History for Kids—Technology … Compare and contrast their own lifestyles with that of Americans in the 1900s and describe how technology has …
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… can be found on Literary Metamorphoses as well as on American Academy of Poets Web site. The influence of his … Pound and T.S. Eliot. Baudelaire also paved the way for Americans William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and Allen …
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… the sun (Sonnet 130) ," via EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets, which will serve as the sample text for this … sonnet is being used. Ask students to visit the Academy of American Poets website , which details the various forms of … rhythm and meter at Emory University , via the Academy of American Poets, and pick out which meter Shakespeare's …
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… Resource BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History Teacher's Guide Women’s History in the …
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… Resource BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History Lesson Plan Women's Equality: Changing …
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… in the United States, and the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, may have generated big … with an eye to understanding how his efforts brought American anticommunism to fever pitch, and then into … and duplicate copies as necessary for student viewing. Alternatively, excerpted versions of these documents are …
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… opposition. In 1914, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent American Marines to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to support the … and includes works recognized as masterpieces of Latin American literature such as Los de abajo ( The Underdogs ) … were painted in the United States, including the Epic of American Civilization by José Clemente Orozco at Dartmouth …
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… of book challengers. A Wrinkle in Time has been on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned/Challenged … challenge issues related to this novel can be found at the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned/Challenged … want to research the symbolic imagery in the novel. Alternatively, students could discuss and write about their own …
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… to prevent fading. Learn more about this process at the American Experience website . Albumen prints have a very … much thinner Lincoln looks. Selected EDSITEment Websites American Experience The Time of the Lincolns The Camera Goes … Presidents' Day holiday Curriculum Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken” Closer Reading …
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… the mind of man." Wikimedia Commons "The people rule the American political world as God rules the universe. They are … with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans’ participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present. …
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… culture. Finally students will work in teams to investigate American tales of the supernatural, focusing on comparisons … a horror story? In what respects is it a serious imaginative exploration of the human condition? Why have some … transformation or that it has been refined to its imaginative essence in the retelling. Activity 4. Investigate …
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… Illinois was a French frontier territory. 1800–1850 , when American settlers moved into the region. 1850–1890 , when … hardship, and the pressures of world war transformed American society. 1950–Present , when postwar prosperity set … United States, or as evidence of the impact of plastic on American life. Turn to the descriptive information on the …
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… against cliché and conventional wisdom. Heitman notes that American Ralph Waldo Emerson was also an admirer of … his “empathy with unassuming but intellectually ambitious Americans.” Literature & Language Arts Writing Essay …
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… Shattering the Glass Ceiling Media Resource Latino Americans: War and Peace Teacher's Guide Women’s History in …
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… LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Constitution/Law Content This episode of BackStory … provisions were in the Civil Rights Act to protect African Americans from violence? Why? What were some of the problems …
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… captures some of the hopes and fears of the framers for the American republic. By reading their words closely and … To help students understand the enormous task facing the Americans, pose a hypothetical situation to the class: …
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… on Elementary Odes (a link from the EDSITEment resource The American Academy of Poets ). Tuesday, 16 May, 1944: "A … War II began, and was one of about 2,000 civilians holding American passports who were confined in German internment … and read Witness to History: John Woodruff, African-American Gold Medal Winner, 1936 . 7. The United States …
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… following magazine cover-illustration, from The Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Clarke Rice's October Ask … to view the following painting, from the The Smithsonian American Art Museum : Frederick J. Waugh's The Knight of the … from the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource The Smithsonian American Art Museum : Saul Berman's River Front Ask students …
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… learning. Lesson Extensions Selected EDSITEment Websites American Studies at the University of Virginia International … Cross WASP History Quiz WASP Interviews National Museum of American History National Air and Space Museum Women in … Guide Women’s History in the United States Curriculum American Diplomacy in World War II Media Resource BackStory: …
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… to the world. It would remain so until the arrival of the American Admiral Matthew Perry in 1853. With the … be found through the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource The American Memory Project, Library of Congress . An excellent … available through the EDSITEment-reviewed web resource The American Memory Project, The Library of Congress . Scroll …
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… one of the most important social protest movements in American history. We felt the power and responsibility of … Studies U.S. History Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Civil Rights Lesson Plan JFK, Freedom Riders, and …
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… Collection Newark, New Jersey, is one of thousands of American cities to experience civil unrest during the 1960s. Often forgotten by textbooks and in American memory generally, the “riots” of the 1960s provide …
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… riseupnewark.com Newark, New Jersey, is one of thousands of American cities to experience civil unrest during the 1960s. Often forgotten by textbooks and in American memory generally, the “riots” of the 1960s provide …
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… Wikimedia Commons Civil Rights (1945-1970) Africa African American Content The W.E.B. Du Bois papers , containing … which ignored the critical role played by Black Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. For Du …
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… are certainly reliable: articles published in the American Historical Review and the Journal of African American History, or content from the National Park Service … Historical Method,” from Reframing History, produced by the American Association of State and Local History. Lesson …
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… James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Among them were 20th-century American writers who questioned widely-accepted beliefs. … works. In the 1920s, expressionism found an outlet on the American stage through experimentalists from the Theatre … Both Fragile and Fierce” of the 2013 production at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. …
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… most of the 20th century, represented the world of the deep American South in multiple genres. In stories, novels, and … Phoenix Jackson, is an aged, impoverished, rural African American woman in pursuit of medicine for her grandson. In … criterion. Lesson Extensions Additional Resources American Studies at the University of Virginia Eudora Welty, …