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… and food to the war effort in Europe without violating America's official position of neutrality. By 1945 the …
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… for National History Day Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Media Resource Coming of the … Timeline of Important Events (1787-1800) Debating America’s Defense of Independence Abroad Created by …
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… Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History June 09, 2022 Joanna Capps, Daniel … (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2011), 305. Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion …
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… accommodation with Britain to outright independence for the American colonies. Wikimedia Commons In 1776 a small … was published that ignited calls for independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot …
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… “in the middle” of competing forces in nineteenth-century America: between black and white, slave and free, North and South, and Africa and America. A black man who owned slaves and who also had …
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… of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 expedition to the Americas. Inspired by earlier national industrial …
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… that it was held on August 28, 1963, and that thousands of Americans from all walks of life attended it. Let students … that although Dr. King emphasized the struggles of African-Americans, he devoted his life to the freedom of all …
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… some astonishing correspondences with that calamity in the America of the late 40s and early 50s. My basic need was to … upon the prominent place the Salem witch trials have in America's cultural consciousness. They observe, “For most …
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… for the agency was based on widely held opinion that the American experiment in self-government requires a thoughtful … idealism of youth? Why would the achievements and values of America’s past not be considered adequate for the next fifty …
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… are broken by attendees. When the Spanish Europeans came to America, they were introduced to the culture, art, and agricultural products native to the Americas. Likewise, indigenous people in what is now Mexico …
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… Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet yes Photo caption Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz … unit) Background Sor Juana is also known as “El Fénix de América” (the Phoenix of the Americas) or “La Décima Musa” …
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… History Related Content Lesson Plan The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories Lesson Plan … The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad Teacher's Guide American Indian History and Heritage Featured Image Photo …
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… for a number of similar events that occurred throughout the American colonies. Some colonists were very angry. One … Legacy and Chestertown Tea Party Festival (photo) , from America's Library , a link from American Memory Chestertown …
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… Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War yes Photo caption … number of inventions and innovations appeared, transforming American life. A telegraph system allowed information to …
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… Plantation in the North and South yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … Operation: December 20, 1790 from The Library of Congress' America's Library , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed …
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… Photo caption Seal of the President of the United States of America. Wikimedia Commons “… the executive authority, with … everything about the Presidency was central to the idea of America that was a work-in-progress when the nation was …
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… the Women's Suffrage Movement Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Lesson Plan Was There an … Resource BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History Teacher's Guide Women’s History in the …
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… Native Americans and the American Revolution: Choosing Sides yes Photo caption Joseph …
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… Japanese American Internment Camps during WWII yes Photo caption … (Tule Lake, 1942). California State University Japanese American Digitization Project This lesson examines … living in Tule Lake was like. Notice the dates that the pictures were taken and look at the Timeline ( Appendix B ). …
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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 … actual stories Hurston herself collected, they do present a picture of the African American narrative tradition. If the …
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… the early nineteenth century, and Britain in the age of the American Revolution—had come apart once they had served … their purpose. President Roosevelt and large numbers of the American people believed that the World War II Grand … is thus guaranteed to be missing parts of the bigger picture and therefore must be reconsidered and likely …
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… of how the arts reflected the era, and links to Chronicling America , a free digital database of historic newspapers, … The Mexican muralists influenced artists throughout the Americas, and some murals were painted in the United States, …
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… unknown to each other." —Edward Hirsch The Academy of American Poets and the EDSITEment Project at the National … bridges.” “Incredible Bridges” enlists the voices of America’s finest contemporary poets, each delivering a poem …
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… book, the adventures of Lewis and Clark have captured the American imagination once again in the last few years. Why … Foreign Affairs available through The American President America's Library: Louisiana Purchase available through a …
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… an NEH Expert: Wide Research Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Teacher's Guide Investigating …
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… of Gov. John Winthrop, flanked by statues of a Native American (left) and a pilgrim. Library of Congress John … and their real-world situation. It is a speech that American political leaders still quote. Why would a large …
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… number of inventions and innovations appeared, transforming American life. A telegraph system allowed information to … Also of great consequence was the development of the “American system of manufactures”; this system, in which …
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… Interactive map of Europe during the Cold War. Teaching American History Cold War Europe is an interactive map … begin your research. Curriculum Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945–1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace? Lesson Plan …
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… unfairly disregarded as a significant philosopher of the American Revolution? Help your students deepen their … machine and instructions for making pasta, ca. 1787 America's Library The Declaration of Independence is not the …
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… 1790. Wikimedia Commons One of the great tragedies of American history was the treatment of African-Americans. African slaves arrived with some of the earliest …