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… The Music of African American History … yes B.B. King Live in Hamburg, Germany, … Railroad, which is available through EDSITEment at the Documenting the American South website. Have students read …
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… After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North … … African and a Slave on the EDSITEment-reviewed website Documenting the American South ), briefly discusses the …
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… The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S. … yes … have the intersections of race and place impacted U.S. history and culture? Concepts such as belonging and …
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… African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War … yes … Black Heritage Trail® OnlineM on Museum of Afro American History Boston , a link from Internet Public Library From …
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… American Utopia: The Architecture and History of the Suburb … to cities for jobs and mobile lifestyles, more than half of Americans still choose to live in suburbs. This lesson plan …
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… African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd … work." —General John J. Pershing, in Scott’s Official History of the American Negro in the World War (Preface) . …
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… Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History … yes L'American International Building, …
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… Voices of the American Revolution … yes "Molly Pitcher" at the Battle of … are available from The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History , a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters … the role of women during the American Revolution. … D. African American voices … A number of documents related to …
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… African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race … work.” —General John J. Pershing, in Scott’s Official History of the American Negro in the World War (Preface) . …
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… Lesson 3: African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation … and political trajectory can be found at the Brief History of the Civilian Conservation Corps on the website of …
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… Native Americans and the American Revolution: Choosing Sides … yes … sometimes backfired, as discussed in this article " The History of the Stamp Act Shows How Indians Led to the … Lesson Plan … After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North … After the American …
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… A Raisin in the Sun: Whose "American Dream"? … yes Photo of a scene from the play A … neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that African Americans faced when attempting to do so. A … has been constructed as "The American Dream" in U.S. history and culture. This interdisciplinary lesson includes …
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… History in Quilts … yes History in Quilts: Lone Star Quilt … History in Quilts: Lone Star Quilt. Library of Congress "We Americans have adopted quilts as a symbol of what we value … with those of quilts from the U.S. Examples include: African Kente cloth: the lesson plans: Fabric …
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… Federal Writers' Project and describe the lives of former African slaves in the U.S. -- both before and after … about the effects of slavery and Reconstruction on African Americans, and evaluate primary source documents. … in America: America's Journey through Slavery (by PBS) Documenting the American South (by University of North …
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… Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union … yes Photograph of Abraham Lincoln's second … new way of thinking about the place of slavery in America's history, replacing both the South's defense of it as "a … "Letter to John Bright" (March 13, 1865) Jefferson Davis, "African Church Speech" (February 6, 1865) Students will read …
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… The wife of John C. Fremont, renowned explorer of the American West, describes her 1849 trip to California and … H. Bradford, which is available through EDSITEment at the Documenting the American South website. Marie Haggerty At … Gold Rush New Perspectives on THE WEST … Harriet Tubman … Africans in America Part 4: Judgment Day 1831-1865 American …
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… Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused" … yes African American men and women hoe and plow the earth while … their entirety at the EDSITEment-reviewed Teaching American History , The Avalon Project at Yale Law School , Online …
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… Not “Indians,” Many Tribes: Native American Diversity … yes Abenaki Couple, an 18th-century … information about the Abenaki: The Abenaki, from Abenaki History , accessed through the EDSITEment resource Internet …
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… Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor … yes Mark Twain, perhaps the most renowned … folklore of similar characters (e.g., Ananzi the spider in African folktales, Coyote in Navajo folktales, the hare in … in the Library of Southern Literature collection at the Documenting the American South website. Encourage them to …
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… activities below help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an … broad influence of jazz music (and of the many prominent African American and Jewish American jazz musicians) in … described above, you can review with your students the history of jazz in the period leading up to World War II; …
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… Listening to History … yes The Statue of Liberty against the Manhattan … plan developed by the Library of Congress as part of the American Memory Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-40 … member by providing a checklist that outlines preparations, documentation procedures, and interview techniques. Review …
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… Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union … yes Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg … This lesson will examine the most famous speech in American history to understand how Lincoln turned a perfunctory … in the Course Description as "Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war," a subtopic under "Civil War." …
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… in an interview-based activity to develop skills in oral history and relate the past to the present. In the remaining … students challenged the existing segregation laws in the American South with an assertive yet non-violent strategy. … lesson plan on the historic role of spirituals in African American history to gain more context and insight. …
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… one of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual field … the prominent centers of blues activities, and explore the history of the blues in the work of W. C. Handy and a …
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… Empire and Identity in the American Colonies … yes Empire and Identity: Join or Die … European Contests for Empire on EDSITEment-reviewed Digital History . A short explanation of covenant chain from the …
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… proclaimed the emancipation, or freeing, of the enslaved African Americans living in the states of the Confederacy which were … available at the EDSITEment-reviewed Teaching American History . Lesson Activities … Activity 1. An Introduction to …
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… Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution … yes The 8-cent Posting Broadside … play during the American Revolution? A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History 6-8 3 Colonial …
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… Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution … yes "The Midnight Ride of Paul … ride is the most famous event of its kind in American history. But other Americans made similar rides during the …
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… Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History … yes Davy Crockett: Portrait Photo caption Portrait … his achievements and fictional exploits have entered the American imagination. It's difficult to distinguish what he …
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… Annexation and Statehood: How the Island Nation Became an American Frontier … yes Queen Liliuokalani Photo caption … … Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History … Everything Your Students Need to Know About …