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… Media Resource Slave Voyages Lesson Plan Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" … the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Lesson …
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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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… U.S. History Related Content Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Curriculum … Library of Congress Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Civil Rights Content The BackStory episode " …
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… Month: Women in Jazz Lesson Plan The Music of African American History Media Resource Music of the Harlem … Music Civil Rights (1945-1970) Cold War (1945-1989) African American Content The Jazz Ambassadors is a Peabody award …
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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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… 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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… by Adrienne Su yes Photo caption Adrienne Su Academy of American Poets It is very common in the United States, when … This poem reflects upon the complicated identities many Americans grapple with—a critical factor to consider as our …
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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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… 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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… 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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… Tubman and the Underground Railroad Teacher's Guide African American History and Culture in the United States Lesson Plan Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" …
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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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… the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself . As the title suggests, … exist within its midst, but also to establish that he, an American slave with no formal education, was the sole author …
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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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… worked tirelessly for the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and during the decades following the war, he was … other interests. They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were …
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… and Resistance Media Resource BackStory: The Melting Pot: Americans & Assimilation Media Resource I Remember: Japanese …
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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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… Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S. … 1957. Library of Congress Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Constitution/Law Content In this American Radio …
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… One of the oldest surviving mission churches in the American Southwest, Mission Concepción is now stripped to … of the Alamo in U.S. History . Media Resource Latino Americans: War and Peace Teacher's Guide Hispanic and Latino …
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… years 1851-1899—available through the EDSITEment resource American Memory as part of the collection Votes for Women … on America's Library , a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory Cartoon of Anthony on Famous American Trials …
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… which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African-American youths of rape. Background Harper Lee’s To Kill A … and the audio clips tell them about life for African Americans under Jim Crow laws—what do they learn from …
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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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… 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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… interests? What might have been the reaction of African Americans? Examine Lincoln's September 13, 1862 reply to a …