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… Horseman has become a Halloween classic, although few Americans celebrated that holiday when the story was new. In …
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… Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry … yes Celebrated American poet Maya Angelou Photo caption Celebrated American poet Maya Angelou makes extensive use of metaphors …
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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 …
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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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… Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip … yes American poet ee cummings Photo caption American poet ee cummings made vivid use of similes in his …
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… following: Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights . Click "Listen to this … President Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, Jun 11, 1963 … Debating …
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… is available through the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets . Your students may want to know a little bit … Lift Every Voice website via the EDSITEment-reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia . Dickinson …
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… Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South … yes African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … 1862, shows perhaps the largest group of enslaved African Americans ever to be photographed at one time. O'Sullivan …
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… House of Burgesses, May 1765. Throughout 1787-88, as Americans continued to debate the proposed Constitution, one …
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… estranged from his times by an overriding attachment to the American past? Lesson Extensions To complete this study of … narrators? … Selected EDSITEment Websites … Academy of American Poets Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Africans in …
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… relations with Germany. February 3, 1917. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed Views American foreign policy continues to resonate with the …
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… is a comprehensive NEH-funded resource on the African American experience during the early 19th century. The … crafter" in the early 19th century? How did African Americans aid in the achievement of freedom for other …
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… use in class. Links to graphics on the EDSITEment resource American Memory , which are used throughout this lesson, … embraced the contradictory goals of fair treatment of American Indians and the acquisition by the U.S. of land …
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… Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system. The campaign of 1828 was a … property requirement, though New York kept it for African Americans. Massachusetts, like many states, retained a tax …
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… and the Slave Narrative Tradition Lesson Plan … African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War … African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War …
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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 … …
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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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… History … Related Content … Student Activity … The Spanish–American War … The Spanish–American War Lesson Plan … La Familia … La Familia Teacher's …
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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 …