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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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… The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S. yes … inspired renewed attention to the experiences of African Americans when traveling in the United States during the …
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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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… Literature & Language Arts Speaking Listening South America Informational Text Latino/a American Lesson Plan Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción …
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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 …
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… they are more or less self-contained. In the high-school American history class, for example, we often look at the … about in history class, it still lies at the center of America’s continuing attempt to live up to its ideals and …
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… The wife of John C. Fremont, renowned explorer of the American West, describes her 1849 trip to California and … help determine the kinds of stories we tell about America's past and the values we seek in our history. Use …
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… Samuel Adams , on the White House website, a link from The American President . An Outline of American History (1994), Chapter Three: Boston "Tea Party" , …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … for Talleyrand himself, and a large loan for France. The American people were incensed. War with France seemed …
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… were deteriorating. President John Adams wanted to preserve American neutrality in conflicts between Britain and France. … and was a national awakening to the virulence of America's increasingly partisan political process" (from …
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… estranged from his times by an overriding attachment to the American past? Lesson Extensions To complete this study of … these narrators? Selected EDSITEment Websites Academy of American Poets Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Africans in …
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… Lincoln on the American Union: A Word Fitly Spoken yes Photo caption … learn about the significance of Union to the future of American government. This resource accompanies the …
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… the United States. Closer Readings Commentary: Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville's Introduction Closer …
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… African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations … Young and Captain John R. Barber, members of the African American 24th Infantry Regiment in Mexico, 1916. Library of … be:” (last chart on the page) from the online publication America’s Wars, May 2001 , available on the U.S. Department …
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… 4: Life Before the Civil War yes Photo caption African American slaves using cotton gin, drawing by William L. … County, VA, May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 6 The proprietor of the American Hotel was able to get fresh strawberries for his …
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… receiving lower pay than foreign counterparts (typically Americans) working in the same factories. The federal … Read the following excerpts: James Creelman, "Hero of the Americas," Pearson's Magazine , March 1908. John Kenneth …
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… MacDonald. Carpenter. Underwood. Green. These are typical American names that reflect a family's British origins—but … other specialists. Lesson 4: Non-British Surnames Modern American society is known for its ethnic diversity, and …
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… people, first across the Atlantic and then within the Americas, and to transfer unpublished archival records into …
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… responses to it. Teacher's Guide : Our " Chronicling America: History's First Draft " collection includes access to newspapers published by African American presses across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th …
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… Lesson 3: Britain, Napoleon, and the American Embargo, 1803–1808 yes Photo caption H.M.S. Leopard … sanctions. Republican Party leaders were convinced that America’s greatest weapon was her economic power. They …
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… Introduction to Cultural Documentation , published by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress 4. There … form. See the Sample Release Form (p. 40) included in the American Folklife Center guidebook, Folklife and Fieldwork: …
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… drawing of the pre-Civil War South. Wikimedia Commons More Americans lost their lives in the Civil War than in any … North and South, changes occurring in the lives of ordinary Americans, and some of the major social and economic issues …
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… Coming of the American Revolution Website A More Perfect Union History & … Studies U.S. History Related Content Lesson Plan After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North …
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… is widely recognized as one of the centerpieces of the American Renaissance. This text is more than a chronicle of … relevant today, as it helps builds our perceptions of America’s unique literary culture. This unit is a study of …