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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 …
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… Carroll, available from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . Give students time to read it silently on … Home Page , a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . For more activities related to the writing …
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… Transcontinental Railroad built? How did it affect Native Americans? Other minorities? How was the environment …
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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 …
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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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… 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 …
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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 …
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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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… 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 …
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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 …
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… to William Nisbet Chambers ("Election of 1840," History of American Presidential Elections, Volume 1 . Arthur M. … Harrison's attitude toward his mission or toward the Native Americans? Letter to Negotiator and Treaty (1809) Harrison …
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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 …
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… 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 … a conflict fought not only in the trenches of Europe but in American public opinion. The American literacy rate was …
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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 …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … which ends with, "Some South Carolinians called for revolutionary defiance of the national government." In a …
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… Edith Wharton: War Correspondent yes Photo caption American author Edith Wharton, shown here with French … and aid to Allies overseas. Correspondents in Europe kept Americans apprised of events that impacted the future of the …
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… The presidential election of 1824 represents a watershed in American politics. The collapse of the Federalist Party and … Hopkins (Hopkins, James F., "Election of 1824," History of American Presidential Elections, Volume 1. Arthur M. …
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… Perkins Stetson (Gilman), from Hearing of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Committee on the … such as Carmella Gustaferre and the Lynches to African Americans such as Ruby Livingston? Activity 2. Women's …
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… World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt listed four American freedoms in his State of the Union address to … by the summer of 1942 a survey revealed that a majority of Americans had little knowledge of the Four Freedoms. This …
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… Companion led to an unprecedented conversation with the American people. During World War II, she took an active … and asked readers to write to her; three hundred thousand Americans had done so by January 1934. The Eleanor Roosevelt …
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… Great Depression have affected the lives of working class Americans? How may the Great Depression have affected older …
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… nation, and kept the issue of Soviet espionage before the American public for years to come. This lesson will expose … Activities Committee and Joseph McCarthy. Background Americans in the late 1940s awoke to a rude shock when they …
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… The Awakening . Practitioners of a realist style in the American tradition include William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, … in the EDSITEment reviewed website Documenting the American South , distinguishes them as follows: "Although …
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… Hard to Find " (text available via the EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia ). Teachers … or not) develop over time. For background information about American southern literature, read the overview of "" Humor …
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… artwork, and films—at EDSITEment-approved sites American Memory and Picturing Modern America, 1880-1920 , … how to read these images and documents most effectively. At American Centuries: View from New England , students will …
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… The wife of John C. Fremont, renowned explorer of the American West, describes her 1849 trip to California and … east of San Francisco during the Gold Rush era in A Year of American Travel (1877), available through EDSITEment at the …
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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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… caption President Woodrow Wilson, 1912. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … of War , text and archival audio on the EDSITEment resource American Memory ), and former Secretary of Treasury William …
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… The Awakening . Practitioners of a realist style in the American tradition include William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, … in the EDSITEment reviewed website Documenting the American South , distinguishes them as follows: "Although …