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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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… 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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… 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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… 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 …
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… Example: The Congress passed a law stating that all American children are entitled to a free quality education. … with roles and responsibilities associated with the American presidency. … The president's principal roles: … …
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… of Langston Hughes. Library of Congress When the Academy of American Poets , an EDSITEment-reviewed website, asked the public to vote on their favorite American poet, the verdict was decisive: Langston Hughes. …
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… from 1900 through 1961, letters detailing her work with the American Foundation for the Blind , photographs of her … her multi-pronged arguments and savvy rhetoric. … The Americans with Disabilities Act … Passed into law in 1990, …
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… see the brief biography of A.E. Housman from the Academy of American Poets website and The Housman Society biography , a link from the Academy of American Poets. A Welsh poet who lived from 1914 to his …
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… THEY GAVE TO THE NATION AND THE WORLD UNDYING PROOF THAT AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT POSSESS THE PRIDE COURAGE AND …
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… all its hardships and beauties, and explores traditional American pioneer values, such as hard work, self-reliance, … an archetypal tale that fully illustrates the struggle of American pioneers, the rewards of hard work, and the …
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… from Project Gutenberg, a link from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia . (You will … the following images from the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory . Present the images in turn, without …
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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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… for citizens described here? What problems did African Americans face? How did fighting World War II relate to the … for citizens described here? What problems did African Americans face? How did fighting World War II relate to the …
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… drawing of the pre-Civil War South. Wikimedia Commons More Americans lost their lives in the Civil War than in any …
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… smiling at the camera Photo caption Elizabeth Alexander American Academy of Poets. Photo credit: Rachel Eliza … “sing’ is his way of expressing the different types of work Americans do.) Have your students get into groups of no more …
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… of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the African Americans who had been freed from slavery proved highly …
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… army to General George Washington, effectively ending the Revolutionary War. Days later, the Continental Congress … all available on the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory , and encourage students to arrive at their …
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… – a period intertwined with the Great Migration, when Black Americans fled Jim Crow oppression in the South for better …
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… in March, 1965 Closer Reading … What Does It Mean to Be American? … What Does It Mean to Be American? Student … to the disabling conditions of Jim Crow laws for Black Americans in the South. Selma is best-known as the starting …
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… considered to be one of the greatest contributions to American literature and one of Faulkner's most heartfelt … and yet obscure—that both ranks it as great among American literary classics and renders it so very complex …
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… Lesson 4: Life Before the Civil War … yes African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … only eight hours. The continuing proliferation of trains is revolutionizing commerce and travel. Richmond is regarded as …
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… the relatively egalitarian society of America. He warns Americans of the most dangerous tendency of democracy: the …
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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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… can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times. …
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… A City upon a Hill What values that we now consider 'American' were contributed by the Puritans? In the 1920s, …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed …