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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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… Claudia Rankine no Photo caption Claudia Rankine American Academy of Poets, John Lucas, photographer Claudia … Madeleine Fuchs Holzer. Background Even though African Americans gained a number of constitutional rights after the …
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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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… to the country in a televised address in which he asked the American people to support the strongest civil rights bill … devoted to telling the story of the 400 black and white Americans who risked their lives—and many endured savage … can assign all students to read all four speeches. Alternatively, the teacher might use a "jigsaw" approach, …
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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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… the last page of Lincoln's first inaugural address from American Memory . (NOTE: Background information is available … Find the document by using its title to conduct a search in American Memory . Read the first complete sentence on the … are representative examples in each. If desired, as an alternative, every student (or pairs of students), given a chart …
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… Tubman and the Underground Railroad Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Lesson … critical role in defining freedom and equality for African Americans during and after the Civil War. Using a rich … important role in preserving freedom for newly emancipated Americans, in part because it was foundational to getting …
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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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… 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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… The presidential election of 1824 represents a watershed in American politics. The collapse of the Federalist Party and … of State (account available on the EDSITEment resource American Memory ). Had Adams specifically promised Clay … Election of 1824 , on the EDSITEment-reviewed website The American President , describes events this way: "Jackson …
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… which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African American youths of rape illustrate through fact what Harper … 1930s. Like the trials, the novel illustrates a time in the American South when Jim Crow was the law of the land, racial … today. A poll by the American Film Institute asked Americans for their top fifty heroes in American film and …
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… must be done in order to correct the "errors" of the American political system in the 1780s. This lesson will … public and private—students will better understand why many Americans agreed that the Articles should be revised and … and duplicate copies as necessary for student viewing. Alternatively, excerpted versions of these documents are …
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… WWI Photoessay from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Modern American Poetry to gain a general sense of the Great War. … Great " (1918), via the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets site. Wilfred Owen's " Dulce et Decorum Est … Archive , a link from the EDSITEment reviewed Academy of American Poets site. Review the WWI Photoessay from the …
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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 …
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… to poetry and the events of WWI. Background In April 1963, American newspaper publisher Philip Graham (the Washington … the point of view of the author. Evaluate why some Americans advocated involvement in the war while others … about the prospect of entering World War I in 1917? How did Americans react toward the events of the World War I in …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … to America's First Hero on the EDSITEment resource The American President : "The very fact that he [Washington] … grievances: "…in any political event, the army has its alternative. If peace, that nothing shall separate you from your …
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… Lives Before the Civil War yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … (March 4, 1851). For background information, search American Memory for "Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to … (March 4, 1851). For background information, search American Memory . Women were prominent in the temperance …
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… (c. 1893). Wikimedia Commons In the twenty-first century, American citizens expect the federal government to protect … States for most of the twentieth century. In fact, most Americans prior in the first half of the twentieth century …