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… of Robert Frost from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets website . Read the Heath Online Instructor's … Guide: Robert Frost , a link from the Academy of American Poets. Browse the Frost Exhibit at the EDSITEment-reviewed Modern American Poetry website from the University of Illinois, …
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… best secure the future safety and happiness of the young American republic. At times it seemed that the Convention … they faced in the process. They will learn why many Americans in the 1780s believed that reforms to the Articles …
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… World War I Chronology on The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed … revived old-world loyalties among "hyphenated" European- Americans, and opinions about US intervention were sharply polarized. More than 8 million German-Americans lived in this country, and many were sympathetic …
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… Month: Women in Jazz Lesson Plan The Music of African American History Media Resource Music of the Harlem … Music Civil Rights (1945-1970) Cold War (1945-1989) African American Content The Jazz Ambassadors is a Peabody award … spoke honestly about the inequalities faced by African Americans in their country. You can view additional clips …
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… essential that the class have a basic background in early American diplomacy. If desired, see Lesson One , above, and particularly the handout " Documentary Timeline: American Diplomacy Before the Monroe Doctrine ," on pages 1-7 of the Master PDF, for a capsule review of early American diplomacy and related events that provides …
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… about the effects of slavery and Reconstruction on African Americans, and evaluate primary source documents. … the unique characters represented in the narratives. Alternatively, two-column notes ask students to summarize details …
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… medium so effective and important historically? Why were Americans willing to engage with this unseen but clearly …
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… of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual field … performers like Gray, due to prejudice against African Americans. In his autobiography, Father of the Blues (1941), …
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… 1896 on the Red Badge Home Page of the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia One early … The Red Badge of Courage site on the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia . Reading it … on the Red Badge Home Page of the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia "The Red …
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… lesson presents the Lend-Lease program in the context of American domestic politics and foreign relations. It asks … these categories). Conclude by telling students that many Americans shared Senator Vandenburg's reluctance to enter … goods needs to yield to defense production? What alternative does Roosevelt pose to arming Britain and other …
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… Music from Across America Lesson Plan The Music of African American History Media Resource Blues Reflections Featured … 2012. Learn More Read an oral history with B.B. King from American Roots Music (PBS). Read about King's visit to the … Contextualize King's music in the longer history of African American musical traditions with the lesson The Music of …
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… Month (JAM) was created by the National Museum of American History back in 2002 to celebrate the extraordinary … twenties as part of the first Great Migration of African Americans . Despite domestic hardships and even being …
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… as a monument not only to its builders but also to the American people and their government." — The Architect of … by selecting different objects from The Capitol Project of American Studies at the University of Virginia , a link from … for a New Nation , available via the EDSITEment resource American Memory from The Library of Congress . The …
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… and political parties was deeply rooted in Anglo-American political culture before the American Revolution. … Though dominant, these sentiments were not held by all Americans. A delegate to the Massachusetts ratifying … it contains within itself the potential of an actual alternative government—that is, its critique of existing policies …
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… the emancipation, or freeing, of the enslaved African Americans living in the states of the Confederacy which were … to this "first step" and explore the obstacles and alternatives we faced in making the journey toward "a more …
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… Little Magician" 1837-1841 on the EDSITEment resource The American President (Philip Kunhardt Jr., et. al., The American President. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. 90-95.) … William Nisbet Chambers ("Election of 1840," History of American Presidential Elections, Volume 1 . Arthur M. …
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… America's Library , via a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory, and on Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for … understanding of symbols and their use in depicting Americans' shared values, principles and beliefs with a … Guide A More Perfect Union Identify symbols used to depict Americans' shared values, principles and beliefs, and …
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… Soviet advances on the Eastern front, important British-American victories in North Africa and Sicily, and the first … earlier in the four-year trench warfare of World War I. Americans had been involved in extensive World War I land … and duplicate copies as necessary for student viewing. Alternatively, excerpted versions of these documents are …
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… 11, 2013 yes Photo caption Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from … 1965. Library of Congress On the third Monday of January, Americans celebrate the life and achievement of one of our …
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… and Purpose | Assessing the Man | Thinking with the Story | American Acquisitiveness and Enterprise | Science, … regard him as a reckless fool—proud, overconfident, unimaginative, and blind? As something in between? In some other … Watch: Is this story a tragedy? Thinking with the Story Americans have traditionally been known for, and generally …
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… also showcased exclusion and inequality. As a microcosm of American society, the fair can serve as an entry point for … with the fair, introduced their religions to Christian Americans. Audio file The teacher’s guide The 1893 World’s …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … that reasonable men in 1798 could support what most modern Americans would regard as an unjust law. Students will now …
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… States into the war." —The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2. To make the world “safe for democracy”? … the Allies could not pay back all the loans made to them by American bankers? "…We have loaned many hundreds of millions … agent and financier in the United States." —Notable American Volunteers of the Great War, Great War Primary …
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… Carroll, available from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . Give students time to read it silently on … unless you have a great deal of time on your hands! Alternatively, you could provide students with a printout of the … American Verse Project .) 4. 20th Century Americans Branch, Anna Hempstead (1875-1937) , "A Sonnet for …
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… with chilly spectators and red, white, and blue bunting. Americans arrive by the hundreds of thousands to watch the …
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… Watkins Harper In this lesson students learn about African American literacy before and immediately after Emancipation … historical facts about the pursuit of literacy by African Americans during and after slavery; identifying facts about …
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… of many writers seeking to document the harsh realities of American life in the transition from the 19th into the 20th … students will learn the key characteristics that comprise American literary naturalism as they explore London's "To … a Fire" and Crane's "The Open Boat" prior to class. Alternatively, teach the following EDSITEment lesson plans prior …
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… of Gwendolyn Brooks from the EDSITEment reviewed Modern American Poetry website. Read the online version and listen … We Real Cool ," from the EDSITEment-reviewed The Academy of American Poets website. Browse the critical essays about "We Real Cool" from EDSITEment-reviewed Modern American Poetry website. Note Brooks' own comments about her …
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… activities below help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an export of American culture and a means of resistance to the Nazis. … of jazz music, which, in turn, had a role to play in the American war effort. Jazz and jazz-influenced popular music …
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… this lesson will help students assess various alternatives for securing civil rights for black Americans in a self-governing society. Background If …