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… The Music of African American History yes Photo caption B.B. King Live in Hamburg, … 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 yes … 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 Keywords for Chronicling America Website …
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… Emancipation Proclamation: Activity 3. The African American Perspective yes Photo caption "The Emancipation of … Is the tone important? Why or why not? A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History 6-8 11/27/10 …
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… BackStory: To Be a Citizen? The History of Becoming American Audio History & Social Studies … Students Need to Know About Immigration History Lesson Plan African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd …
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African-Americans & CCC yes Photo caption Civilian Conservation … FDR and African-Americans in the CCC Read  Introduction to African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps and … Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History 6-12 08/26/10 Interwar …
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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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… BackStory: Saving American History Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies … Discussion Questions One of Watson's approaches to documenting the past was to survey elderly people. What are …
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… The LGBTQ Community in American History Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies … preserve and share the stories of LGBTQ history in the U.S. Documenting the LGBTQ Movement : This article provides an …
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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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… Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History yes Photo caption The L'American
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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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… BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies … gold medal. Wikimedia Commons Civil Rights (1945-1970) African American Culture Latino/a American Women’s History
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… Coming of the American Revolution Website A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Lesson Plan After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North Lesson Plan Revolutionary Tea …
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… Voices of the American Revolution yes Photo caption "Molly Pitcher" at the … 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 the …
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… Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S. August 27, 2019 yes Photo caption Sanata …
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… Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History June 09, 2022 Joanna Capps, Daniel Castaneda, Stacey … contributed to debates over land rights, access, and Americanness. Asian Americans contested the consequences of …
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African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations … Charles Young and Captain John R. Barber, members of the African American 24th Infantry Regiment in Mexico, 1916. … work.” —General John J. Pershing, in Scott’s Official History of the American Negro in the World War (Preface) . …
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… BackStory: Darkness over the Plain: The Bison in American History Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social …
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… Lesson 3: African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps yes … 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 Lesson Plan Voices of the …
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… A Raisin in the Sun: Whose "American Dream"? yes Photo caption Photo of a scene from the … 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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Our Teacher's Guide offers a collection of lessons and resources for K-12 social studies, literature, and arts classrooms that center around the achievements, perspectives, and experiences of…

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History in Quilts yes Photo caption 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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… Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History May 06, 2019 Madeline Hsu, PhD yes Photo caption … table, including Germans, French, Spaniards, Native Americans, Irish, and a range of other Europeans amicably … opposite to Uncle Sam chatting amiably with a Chinese and African American man at either side.  In the window after …
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… Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union yes Photo caption Photograph of Abraham … 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 Photo caption 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 …