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… categories of individuals (people living at the time of the American Revolution, immigrants, and people from your home … the criteria for inclusion in the Library of Congress's America's Library's Meet Amazing Americans . If you complete …
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… wheel gets the oil. Birds of a feather flock together. A picture is worth a thousand words. The early bird catches …
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… Eve Merriam (available on EDSITEment through The Academy of American Poets website). Copy the poem onto a piece of chart … (both available on EDSITEment through The Academy of American Poets website). You can also read a book by Dr. … so cool shimmers blue Lazy summer days Have children draw pictures to illustrate their haiku. Consider broadening …
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… responsible for initiating a number of programs that helped America gain a world position. —John Hanson Statue on the … 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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… We Must Not Be Enemies Student Activity Lincoln on the American Union: A Word Fitly Spoken Lesson Plan “From Time … What Should a President do? Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Featured Image Photo caption …
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… How did these New England settlers interact with the Native Americans, and how can we gain information about those … New England migrants colonized their region of North America by establishing towns. The Puritans embarked upon …
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… States into the war." —The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2. To make the world “safe for democracy”? … Wilson's War Message (April 4, 1917) "To what extent was America's war a war for business? Did Woodrow Wilson lead …
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… everything about the Presidency was central to the idea of America that was a work-in-progress when the nation was … August 22, 1781 on the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory .) On November 5, 1781, less than three …
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… the Library of Southern Literature (via Documenting the American South) Realism The websites used in Lesson 2 … The Awakening . Practitioners of a realist style in the American tradition include William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, …
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… Today: From "New" to You! Lesson Plan The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry Lesson Plan … food made attending the exposition too expensive for most Americans. The average worker earned $1 to $1.50 per day, …
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… Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union yes Photo caption Photo of Lincoln at … and practices of self-government for most, if not all, of America's inhabitants. But once cotton became "king" as the …
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… yes Photo caption Still from the documentary “Rita Dove: An American Poet” Wikimedia Commons The selections within this … of Achilles” The Poem About the Poet from the Academy of American Poets Audio “The Shield of Achilles ” from the …
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… Mexico, is legendary. Lauded as the first great Latin American poet, she was published in both the New and the Old … but also an important figure in the cultural history of the Americas as a defender of women’s rights in Chile. More of …
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… caption President Woodrow Wilson, 1912. Wikimedia Commons American foreign policy continues to resonate with the … use of force to accomplish idealistic goals, the idea of America. Understanding the debate over the League and the …
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… of individuals and undercut the nation's economy. Older Americans as a group were particularly affected by this … health meant people were living longer, yet many elderly Americans faced age discrimination that made it difficult to … to an industrial economy. The EDSITEment-reviewed America's Library site created by the Library of Congress …
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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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… Lesson 2: Religion and the Argument for American Independence yes Photo caption Pastor Jonathan … Congress In 1775 the English political philosopher and pro-American Member of Parliament Edmund Burke said, "The …
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… to drink lizard broth and eat spider eggs from a Native American woman who cared for them.) Lesson Activities … and politics have been famously intertwined in Latin American letters. Select one of the following short stories …
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… wisdom can form for collecting the united sense of your American people, we are convinced, your Majesty would … petition (and perhaps his remarks about it) became known in America, according to the Journals of the Continental …
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… Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History yes Photo caption The L'American … the second half of the 19th century, Europe and most of the Americas were in the throes of Industrial Revolution. In …
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… and published as books over and over again in Europe and America. Jataka Tales are often short narratives which tell … they traveled across the rest of Europe, and then on to America, over hundreds of years. Read to the class three or …
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… Edith Wharton: War Correspondent yes Photo caption American author Edith Wharton, shown here with French … Scribner's Magazine during World War I. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript …
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… and political parties was deeply rooted in Anglo-American political culture before the American Revolution. Leaders such as George Washington and …
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… the Atlantic world (the relationships between people of the Americas, Africa, and Europe). Use the pieces in this … subjects and events often omitted from European and North American art history. Symbolism plays a significant role in …
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… During the Early Republic Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Teacher's Guide Preparing for … More Perfect Union Lesson Book Media Resource Coming of the American Revolution Lesson Plan Lesson 3: George Washington: …
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… of Alexis De Tocqueville in his classic work Democracy in America , that the jury system is one of the most important … an impartial jury of one's peers, and English colonists in America recognized this right, along with due process of law …
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… Campaigns in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Teaching American History Southern Approaches to Europe walks … is not as robustly indexed. Newspaper Coverage: Chronicling America provides online access to hundreds of newspapers …
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… are certainly reliable: articles published in the American Historical Review and the Journal of African American History, or content from the National Park Service …