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… with a lineage that stretches back to before the Civil War and includes a military general and a former governor of … unit overview and the pre-reading activities for students. Warn students to anticipate difficult reading ahead. While …
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… against Napoleon Bonaparte's armies during the Peninsular War. Must Art Be Beautiful? The PBS Digital Studio video …
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… a Clyde unit and served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Upon discharge, he attended Wittenberg Academy in …
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… “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ,” which features “warm-up” exercises to give students initial bearings for … fragmented, and at a loss in their daily worlds. World War I (WWI), moreover, contributed to a more modern local …
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… why the stories about what it meant to be a "Rosie" during wartime production are not entirely accurate. Audio file … the "Rosie the Riveter" narrative that emerged during the war and that continues to color how we think about women in …
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… abroad are historic as well: the country is fighting two wars and confronts the most serious financial problems since …
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… yes Photo caption Stephen Crane, best known for the Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage , also wrote the stark … is the notion that everyone has "strong and often warring emotions: passions, such as lust, greed, or the …
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… Chelsea House Publishers, 1971, 349-350.): "… After the War of 1812… the Federalist party was no longer an effective … was minister to France. He was then appointed Secretary of War by President Madison, but in 1816 he was made Secretary …
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… America," they will learn about American attitudes toward immigrants and the meaning of the term "American" to … government began to restrict immigration after World War I. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which …
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… were going to Rome, and too many taxes for the emperor’s wars in Italy. When peasants heard Luther’s “Freedom of a …
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… What does your version tell us about cultural attitudes toward physical violence, fighting and war? What does your version tell us about the position of …
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… 2019 Jefferson Lecture: Father Columba Stewart Video A More Perfect Union Art & Culture History … 2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities: Father Columba Stewart Download External Video Featured Image Photo caption Father Columba Stewart Photograph courtesy of the Hill Museum and Manuscript …
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… resource America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935–1945 . Finally, … resource America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935–1945 .) Ask them …
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… Published in 1958, the novel recounts the life of the warrior and village hero Okonkwo, and describes the arrival … 19th century, and Achebe wrote and published the novel towards the end of the colonial period, during a time of …
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… the U.S. than the civil rights struggle in the post-World War II era. Yet, as Julian Bond succinctly argued, in most … how to make social and political change, how to press forward, how to keep going—in short, how to make a movement. In …
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… '67, Lesson 1: Protest: Why and How yes Photo caption The Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) Police Brutality March across Broad and Market Street in Newark, NJ, 1965. Doug Eldridge Collection Newark, New Jersey, is one of thousands of American cities to …
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… in July 1967? How Do We Know? yes Photo caption The Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) Police Brutality March across Broad and Market Street in Newark, NJ, 1965. riseupnewark.com Newark, New Jersey, is one of thousands of American …
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… Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in the Interwar Years Lesson Plan Lesson 1: NAACP’s Anti-Lynching … learning, and teaching. About W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born in Massachusetts in 1868, was, …
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… photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness…" — W. Eugene Smith , photojournalist and Karales's … As a Look Magazine photographer, he covered the Vietnam War and civil rights movement. His photograph, …
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… Relief Map Ziggurats Student Activity EDSITEment’s Persian Wars Resource Pages Lesson Plan Hammurabi's Code: What Does …
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… to the background, showing gestures of gratitude toward the white figures, who occupy more central positions. … , an iconic image illustrating a perspective on westward expansion. What similarities and differences can you …
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… that gave impetus to his first voyage, and has raised awareness of the cultures he and those who followed him … Great Navigator's motives and assumptions as he sailed toward the setting sun? Activity 4. Explore other 15th-century … Sources" for a link to " Bernardino de Sahagun, The war of conquest: how it was waged here in Mexico ," a …
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… Memory website's Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection, examine the following images …
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… range of dates remaining before and after the second World War). These two early periods are detailed in the first four …
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… What did Lincoln mean when he said " With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, … address compare with other addresses delivered in times of war? Consider the following speeches: Woodrow Wilson's …
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… civil rights to the tumultuous protests against the Vietnam War , music served as an outlet and source of courage for … throughout the civil rights era. It then shifts towards active student participation and engagement with the …
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… American man at either side. In the window after the Civil War ended slavery, and before the United States began … Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015), received awards from the Society for Historians of American Foreign …
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… Studies U.S. History Early Republic (1790-1820) Civil War (1860-1865) Slavery Lesson Plan Slavery and the American …
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… relationship to the environment, especially after World War II, has led to a more diversified National Park System …
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… would eventually erupt into wholesale massacre and civil war. As Stephen Greenblatt observes “there were strong …