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… Vietnam War would become the longest military engagement in American history prior to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. … public in the past few years. This makes it possible for Americans and others to gain access and attempt to formulate …
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… in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." At the EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory website's Farm Security … Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's virtual exhibition America on the Move . …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … of the presidential election of 1828. The First American Party System covers such issues and events as the …
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… Burns chronicles the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the … and seldom-seen movie footage. EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia offers …
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… and social changes (new roles for women and African Americans in the South). Alongside this modernization of …
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… encounters with herds of buffalo along the Trail. Native Americans recounts both friendly and unfriendly meetings …
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… Our Town is often referred to as the quintessential work of American theater. In 1938 it earned Thornton Wilder the … world attests to its being something much greater than an American play: it is a play that captures the universal …
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… social justice. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project The American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt Have students examine … initiatives during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The American Experience: The Presidents Franklin Delano …
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… stories and were written down in the 19th century in the American South. The following lessons introduce children to … fable with an original lesson/moral. Lesson Extensions The American stories referred to as Brer Rabbit stories are …
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… the Dyer Bill serves as a window for students to view how Americans in the 1920s understood the federal system. …
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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 Approve …
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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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… caption President Woodrow Wilson, 1912. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … warfare against mankind. "It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways …
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… Wikimedia Commons Colonization Constitution/Law Latino/a American Content Even though Puerto Rico has been part of … emerged surrounding sports sovereignty at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games? According to Antonio …
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… themes and motifs. Ask your students for examples from American or European literature that illustrate some … click on the image of the "Embracing Couple.") A Native American feast bowl (Cherokee or Iroquois, c. 1800) with its …
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… about Emily Dickinson was produced as part of the American Women of Achievement series, highlighting influential women throughout American history. The documentary features information about …
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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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… 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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… More Dickinson poems are available at the Academy of American Poets or the American Verse Project that can be used to extend or modify …
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… they are more or less self-contained. In the high-school American history class, for example, we often look at the … versa. Soviets used segregation and mistreatment of black Americans to support the claim that communism was a more …
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… declared and won their independence from Great Britain, Americans enjoyed the freedom to establish for themselves …
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… Gatsby yes Photo caption "Jazz Baby," 1919. From Historic American Sheet Music, 1850–1920. Wikimedia Commons "That was … influx of immigrants and the rising prominence of African-Americans? Finally—and central to the novel—ask students …
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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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… League yes Photo caption Woodrow Wilson. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … the main objections to the League of Nations by some Americans. Lesson Extensions Selected EDSITEment Websites …
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… Lessons Featured Websites Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month brings … exhibition, Poetic Voices of the Muslim World, to increase Americans' understanding of Muslim poetic traditions in oral …
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… Downs, Leah Weinryb Grohsgal yes Photo caption National American Woman Suffrage Association Parade, 1913 Library of … right of women to own property, and the rights of Native Americans and Chinese immigrants. The New Northwest was “a …
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… this for an online exhibit covering Caribbean, Middle American, and other branches of late 15th-century Native American society, then have student research teams use …
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… and D.W. Griffith to engage in racist attacks on African Americans in the early years of the 20th century? In what …
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… before World War II. That the president acted as he did—and Americans (at least initially) supported that …