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… of his humorous dialect. As part of a curriculum unit on American Humor, students may also compare Harris' story with … Southwest Humorists were an important influence on several American writers, including Mark Twain. These were educated …
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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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… Buffalo, NY (1979). Photograph by David Seaman. Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection From 1976-1981, the National … of documentarians, many of whom became prominent figures of American photography. The below activities offer students …
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… Williams Walt Whitman sought to create a new and distinctly American form of poetry. As he declared in Democratic Vistas , "America has yet morally and artistically originated nothing. …
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… and Purpose | Assessing the Man | Thinking with the Story | American Acquisitiveness and Enterprise | Science, … business opportunity: Jack London’s man is clearly an American. So are the story’s larger themes. But before …
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… activities below help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an export of American culture and a means of resistance to the Nazis. …
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… the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself . As the title suggests, … exist within its midst, but also to establish that he, an American slave with no formal education, was the sole author … to liberty and human dignity comparable to that of America's Founding Fathers," the slave narrator finds …
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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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… to present the modern angst of life in mid-20th-century America. In Lesson 1, students identify what Expressionism … James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Among them were 20th-century American writers who questioned widely-accepted beliefs. …
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… Writers' Project 1936-1940 (examples are available in the American Memory collection); they might compare Owens's … on a road that hates arrogance." The moving story of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe is recounted on America's Story , a site designed especially for students …
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… before World War II. That the president acted as he did—and Americans (at least initially) supported that … to gain control of any new areas deemed important to America's national security. But there was a moral dimension …
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… Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution yes Photo caption The 8-cent Posting … on readers. Broadsides did have an impact in colonial America. They delivered the latest news and much more: …
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… hungry army together"—from the EDSITEment resource The American President . What combination of experience, … Life Before the Presidency on the EDSITEment resource The American President : "George Washington was not a great …
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… including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, but excluding American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. As … about historic places registered in the 50 states, American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana …
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… Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor yes Photo caption Mark Twain, perhaps the most renowned American humorist. Library of Congress When Mark Twain's …
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… Activity 1. Meet the Aztecs The Aztecs, who lived in Mesoamerica, established a complex civilization that came to … Mapmaker site . On the world map, click on North America, then click on Mexico. Locate Mexico City, the …
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… "Creating the Balance" on the EDSITEment resource The American President , "Madison's presidency was dominated by … Great Britain, which for years had been grossly violating American shipping rights." This crisis over U.S. shipping …
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… Wikimedia Commons Long before the first shot was fired, the American Revolution began as a series of written complaints … independent stand we are compelled to take.” Background The American Revolution had its origin in the colonists’ concern …
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… XVI Wikimedia Commons Matters of foreign policy dominated American political concerns between 1790 and 1800. In 1793 … out between Revolutionary France and Great Britain, and American commercial interests became a target for both …
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… la Cruz, a major literary figure and the first great Latin American poet, is a product of el Siglo de Oro Español … basic historical information about Mexico from early Mesoamerican civilizations through the late twentieth century. …
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… of the archived materials are from late-seventeenth-century America, but the colonists conceptions about witches are …
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… and other information. Selected EDSITEment Websites American Memory Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920 Today in History America's Library John Burroughs, page 1 John Burroughs, …
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… medium so effective and important historically? Why were Americans willing to engage with this unseen but clearly … ALL the Fireside Chats linked from the EDSITEment-reviewed American Presidents website. The public's response to FDR's … and Cornelia Levine's book The People and the President: America's Conversations with FDR (Beacon Press, 2002). Each …
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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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… Perkins Stetson (Gilman), from Hearing of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Committee on the … to mid-nineteenth century, "domestic ideology" positioned American middle class women as the spiritual and moral …
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… Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la primer gran poeta de América Latina, es considerada una de la figuras literarias más importantes del continente americano y una de las primeras feministas. En el siglo … por EDSITEment LANIC (por sus siglas en inglés, Latin American Network Information Center) y la página presentada …
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… of the archived materials are from late-seventeenth-century America, but the colonists conceptions about witches are …
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… The Declaration of Independence: "An Expression of the American Mind" yes Photo caption United States Declaration … writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper …
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… information, the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Teaching American History offers an interactive website that includes … II of the U.S. Constitution, available in its entirety at America's Founding Documents on the National Archives …
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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 …