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… American Literature Lessons — Nineteenth Century September … offers over 30 lessons on major authors in 19th-century American literature including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, …
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… Introducing American Art at the Core of Learning May 10, 2016 Sara Jatcko yes Photo caption Participants at American Art at the Core of Learning. Terra Foundation Using …
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… adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. Mission … US (Mission 1: Crown or Colony?) explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots …
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… Lincoln on the American Union: A Word Fitly Spoken yes Photo caption … learn about the significance of Union to the future of American government. This resource accompanies the …
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… Japanese American Internment Camps during WWII yes Photo caption … (Tule Lake, 1942). California State University Japanese American Digitization Project This lesson examines … used to determine the loyalty of the Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated in War Relocation Authority (WRA) …
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… Not “Indians,” Many Tribes: Native American Diversity yes Photo caption Abenaki Couple, an … for your students when they think of "Indians" or "Native Americans"? In this unit, students will heighten their …
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… World War I and American Art: Part Two January 26, 2017 Joe Phelan yes Photo … “Flower of Death” (1919). Claggett Wilson Smithsonian American Art Museum Last time , I began to survey how …
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… World War I and American Art: Part One January 10, 2017 Joe Phelan yes Photo … President Woodrow Wilson declared war in April 1917 and American troops did not arrive on European soil until June. …
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… Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor yes Photo caption Mark Twain, perhaps the most renowned American humorist. Library of Congress When Mark Twain's …
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… updates. Broadsides address virtually every aspect of the American Revolution, providing a wide range of suitable classroom …
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… African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd … expose the often hypocritical attitudes toward African Americans among many white Americans in the early 20th … wars using the video below and these resources: American Revolution , War of 1812 , Civil War , and the …
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… Samuel Adams , on the White House website, a link from The American President . An Outline of American History (1994), Chapter Three: Boston "Tea Party" , on From Revolution to Reconstruction , a link from History Matters . …
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… America: History's First Draft Media Resource Coming of the American Revolution Curriculum Competing Voices of the Civil Rights …
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… read primary and secondhand accounts of events during the American Revolution. Extend the study of American Revolutionary …
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… The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy yes Photo caption The Monroe … Monroe used when recommending that Congress recognize the revolutionary governments of Spanish America. Paraphrase the …
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… Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction yes Photo caption Mark Twain (Samuel L. … comes from the French verb essayer , which means, "to try." American essayists examine the political, the historical, …
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… Jewish Americans: Securing Rights and Responsibility to Others May … 1 Restrictions on political activity continued into the Revolutionary era. In Massachusetts, for example, the … in British America,” The American Revolution, accessed November 15, 2023, …
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… Monarchy , the result of 1689's "… so-called 'Glorious Revolution' … was a permanent shift in power; although the … wisdom can form for collecting the united sense of your American people, we are convinced, your Majesty would …
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… More Perfect Union Lesson Book Media Resource Coming of the American Revolution Lesson Plan Lesson 3: George Washington: The …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … "George Washington was not a great general but a brilliant revolutionary. Although he lost most of his battles with the … sources. From the U.S. Army Center of Military History The American Revolution: First Phase , scroll down to page 68, …
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… Emancipation Proclamation: Activity 3. The African American Perspective yes Photo caption "The Emancipation of … complains to Lincoln of unequal pay for white and African American soldiers and consider the questions that follow: …
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… Longfellow's interpretations of it. Grant Wood painted American scenes and subjects during the first half of the … Wood wished to tell and preserve stories of the American Revolution. Longfellow wrote his poem 88 years after the …
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… how media influences the public and private lives of the American people then and now; and Create original … British colonies, all weeklies. By the time of the American Revolution in 1775, some 37 newspapers thrived in business. …
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… Lesson 3: Britain, Napoleon, and the American Embargo, 1803–1808 yes Photo caption H.M.S. Leopard … by using neutral American vessels to carry their goods. Americans would take the cargo to their home ports. …
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… Wikimedia Commons Long before the first shot was fired, the American Revolution began as a series of written complaints to …
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… Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union yes Photo caption Photo of Lincoln at … Course Description as "Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war," a subtopic under "Civil War." The …
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… December 03, 2012 yes Photo caption Emanuel Leutze (American: 1816–1868), Washington Crossing the Delaware , … belief in liberal democracy, he painted this American Revolution scene to inspire German reformers. When his first …
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… American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and … the significance of humor through a study of several American writers. One or all lessons can be taught …