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… of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual field … performers like Gray, due to prejudice against African Americans. In his autobiography, Father of the Blues (1941), …
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… This lesson provides information and activities about one American Indian Nation, the Anishinaabe, called Ojibwe in … issues, please see " Teaching Young Children about Native Americans " by Debbie Reese. Activity 2. A Class Research …
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… Music from Across America Lesson Plan The Music of African American History Media Resource Blues Reflections Featured … 2012. Learn More Read an oral history with B.B. King from American Roots Music (PBS). Read about King's visit to the …
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… Month (JAM) was created by the National Museum of American History back in 2002 to celebrate the extraordinary … twenties as part of the first Great Migration of African Americans . Despite domestic hardships and even being …
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… Little Magician" 1837-1841 on the EDSITEment resource The American President (Philip Kunhardt Jr., et. al., The American President. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. 90-95.) …
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… with chilly spectators and red, white, and blue bunting. Americans arrive by the hundreds of thousands to watch the … a single national story, one that the heroes of the Revolutionary generation would recognize and approve. The …
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… book, the adventures of Lewis and Clark have captured the American imagination once again in the last few years. Why … American Diversity Lesson Plan Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers Student Activity Lewis and Clark: …
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… the last page of Lincoln's first inaugural address from American Memory . (NOTE: Background information is available … Find the document by using its title to conduct a search in American Memory . Read the first complete sentence on the …
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… the Colonial North Related Content Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Lesson … Wikimedia Commons Colonial America (1620-1765) African American Slavery Content When we think of slavery in North …
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… Digitization Project , a link from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia Log Cabin … about William Henry Harrison's relationship with Native Americans in such documents as the following from the …
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… their oral histories is a way to illuminate the world of American diplomacy and bring it closer to home, engaging … NEH Expert: Building an Argument Curriculum The Crisis of American Diplomacy, 1793–1808 Curriculum The Diplomacy …
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… by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, as part of a curriculum unit on American literary humor, compare it to other American literary humorists in order to gain perspective on …
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… Tubman and the Underground Railroad Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Featured … (1860-1865) Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) Slavery African American Content In 1861, years before the signing of the …
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… In particular, they will examine Monroe's involvement in American diplomacy while serving in a variety of positions … the Napoleonic Wars to fight for their independence. These revolutions aroused intense sympathy in the United States, …
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… Dance: Ceremonial Gratitude National Museum of the American Indian's page on the Butterfly Dance costume " The … and black Thanksgiving: turkey, squash, harvest, Pilgrims, American Indians, food Christmas: nativity, tree, holly, …
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… interests? What might have been the reaction of African Americans? Examine Lincoln's September 13, 1862 reply to a …
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… subjects and events often omitted from European and North American art history. Symbolism plays a significant role in … disembarkation to other states or countries. Use the Inter-American database . the varying fates of slave voyages. …
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… America yes Photo caption U.S. Postal stamp dedicated to American Music in 1964. Wikimedia Commons In this unit, … and responses to the music. Chippewa Nation This Native American group from northern Minnesota uses contemporary …
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… White Fang : Nature and Culture Detectives Lesson Plan American Utopia: The Architecture and History of the Suburb Lesson Plan Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History Featured Image Photo caption Wendell Berry …
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… with the drawn images. Harriot's 1588 Description of Native Americans "THEIR manner of feeding is in this wise. They lay …
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… it might be like to grow up in Asian, African, or Latin American countries. Content Standards NCSS.D2.Geo.1.6-8. … In it, Adichie talks about how people in Nigeria listen to American music and engage in practices that have reached the …
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… Poetry Song and Traditional Dance National Museum of the American Indian (images of Hopi corn-based artifacts and … Note: The Poetry Foundation offers a poem sampler, Native American Poetry and Culture , which contains a selection of …
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… and Japanese Incarceration Teacher's Guide Landmarks of American History and Culture Featured Image Photo caption … influences and her start as an anthropologist of the American South. This article was originally published as …
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… conducting fieldwork for Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology, and for the Works Progress … of folktales: available from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia is the etext …
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… de la Cruz Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the first great Latin American poet, is still considered one of the most important literary figures of the American Hemisphere, and one of the first feminist writers. …
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… 1975). Photograph by Joan Clark Netherwood. Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection From 1976-1981, the National … of documentarians, many of whom became prominent figures of American photography. This instructional plan may be used …
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… Science and Sacred Rights Media Resource BackStory: Saving American History Featured Image Photo caption The Oakland … at the University of Puget Sound and the author of American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza …
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… throughout Afro-Eurasia, they do not address two key American empires (Aztec and Inca) in existence at the time … History 9-12 10/22/15 02/12/20 Related Content Curriculum American Diplomacy in World War II Curriculum The Crisis of …
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… in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now Closer Reading Jewish American Heritage Month Featured Image Photo caption “My … and 1940s. Stream the film now on PBS . GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II The 2018 NEH-funded documentary …
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… monologue" at the EDSITEment-reviewed The Academy of American Poets . Note the definition of dramatic monologue, … Browning: Robert Browning Biography at The Academy of American Poets website The Victorian Web contains a wealth …