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… War in Literature from EDSITEment-reviewed Documenting the American South provides a critical overview of writing … Poets , is often read as a poem about the start of the Revolutionary War. EDSITEment Lesson Why Do We Remember …
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… pages from 1777 to 1963 and to find information about American newspapers using the National Digital Newspaper … 1919, racial hostility triggered violent attacks on African Americans in more than 20 cities and towns across the United …
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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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… with chilly spectators and red, white, and blue bunting. Americans arrive by the hundreds of thousands to watch the … a single national story, one that the heroes of the Revolutionary generation would recognize and approve. The …
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… their oral histories is a way to illuminate the world of American diplomacy and bring it closer to home, engaging … NEH Expert: Building an Argument Curriculum … The Crisis of American Diplomacy, 1793–1808 … The Crisis of American …
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… subjects and events often omitted from European and North American art history. Symbolism plays a significant role in … Life, his four paintings charted the journey of African Americans from slavery to the present. The Hall of Negro …
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… World History WWII (1939-1945) Closer Reading … Jewish American Heritage Month … Jewish American Heritage Month Lesson Plan … Holocaust and …
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… the work of Major Henry Livingston, Jr. EDSITEment-reviewed American’s Story from America’s Library contains a brief … Maulana Karenga as he searched for ways to bring African Americans together within families and as a community. In …
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… and History in the United States Closer Reading … Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S. … Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the …
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… America's cultural consciousness. They observe, “For most Americans the episode ranks in familiarity somewhere between …
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… Lesson Plan … Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History … Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History Lesson Plan … American Utopia: The …
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… and meaningful way. EDSITEment’s lesson on Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" is … Civil War (1860-1865) Slavery Lesson Plan … Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" … …
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… Photo caption Still from the documentary “Rita Dove: An American Poet” Wikimedia Commons The selections within this … of Achilles” … The Poem About the Poet from the Academy of American Poets Audio “The Shield of Achilles ” from the …
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… Voices and Visions On “In the Waiting Room” from Modern American Poetry … 3. Gwendolyn Brooks: “We Real Cool” … The Poem Tyehimba Jess on "We Real Cool " from the American Academy Poets The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: …
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… Mexico, is legendary. Lauded as the first great Latin American poet, she was published in both the New and the Old … unit, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet . Two lesson plans, Sor Juana, the Poet: The …
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… ever written. The book is influential both for its study of American society in the Jacksonian period and for its … Perfect Union History & Social Studies Civics U.S. History Revolutionary Era (1765-1790) Early Republic (1790-1820) …
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… a four-year conflict that would leave nearly a million Americans dead or wounded, four million slaves free, and a …
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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 … the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments resides in its revolutionary attack on the institutions that restricted …
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… unknown to each other." —Edward Hirsch The Academy of American Poets and the EDSITEment Project at the National … of migrations that are a part of our common heritage as Americans. (6) … “Praise Song for the Day,” Elizabeth …
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… turned to art after serving in World War I in the African American regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters . After … NY Romare Bearden was one of more than 6 million African Americans who fled the US South between 1916 and 1970 during …
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… of ancient rituals form the basis of our contemporary American festival. Halloween has traditionally been … from the 1930s, to descriptions of Halloween festivities by Americans early in the 20th century.) Additional examples …
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… caption Home page image from Ken Burns' website. WETA "More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other …
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… Lessons Featured Websites Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month brings … Muslim World Poetic Voices of the Muslim World, to increase Americans' understanding of Muslim poetic traditions in oral …
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… 12, 2018 Mary Downs, Leah Weinryb Grohsgal yes National American Woman Suffrage Association Parade, 1913 Photo … right of women to own property, and the rights of Native Americans and Chinese immigrants. The New Northwest was “a …
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… Jackson, December 8, 1829, first Annual Message to Congress Americans elect a president through the state-by-state …
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… late 1920s and early 1930s? What conditions did ordinary Americans face during the early years of the Great …
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… Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet . Dos planes de clase, Sor Juana, la poetisa: … qué Sor Juana es considerada la primera gran poeta hispanoamericana. Se puede encontrar más información acerca de Sor …
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… Illinois, one of the oldest towns incorporated by Black Americans. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Colored …
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… to the new Republic of Mexico, Joel Poinsett, as well as of American businessman, Paul Ecke Jr., who later successfully … a number of other customary holiday practices have entered American culture from Mexico, many with religious …
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… The Things They Carried as one of the finest examples in American literature of writing about war. O’Brien served in … carried ghosts.” In World War II, the average age of an American soldier was the mid-twenties, while that of …