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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 …
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… in the novel centers on the concept that people tend more toward savagery than order and peace. Discuss … tendency has played out in current events such as riots and war. Follow-up questions Golding presents a scenario in …
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… Est” The Poem (with audio option) Poetry of The Great War: “From Darkness to Light”? Introduction to Modernist …
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… This league became very powerful, and after winning many wars the Romans acquired the large empire you see on the … first word, the word cave (pronounced cahway ), means "beware", or "be careful of". The second word, the word canem …
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… 1920s. Wikimedia Commons Progressive Era (1890-1920) Interwar Period (1920-1939) African American Latino/a American … Diplomacy (grades 9-12) Lesson Plan: Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory …
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… orator during the antebellum period. During the Civil War he worked tirelessly for the emancipation of enslaved … African Americans and during the decades following the war, he was arguably the most influential African American …
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… hills…" —From Wharton’s 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance These comments, along with the Bjorkman passage … which flourished during the decades following the Civil War. An overview of the local color movement (its defining …
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… narratives were widely-read in the decades before the Civil War and instrumental in building support among white … comes in Chapter 11 (pages 96–98) as he travels toward freedom and asks himself, "What should be my name?" …
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… Presidents, First Ladies, Famous American Women, Civil War, Native Americans, Black History, The Twentieth Century, … Portrait Gallery . Geronimo led Apache tribes in land wars with both the Mexican and U.S. armies. Rosa Parks was …
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… Play with Words: Rhyme & Verse yes Photo caption World War II-era (1943) Buffalo, New York nursery school children … concepts. Most important, a study of poetry helps promote a warm, relaxed classroom atmosphere that's conducive to …
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… from American Memory . Photograph: Group of mounted Pawnee warriors, October 1866 Photograph: Silver Mine 1868 —Mining … from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Documents of Civil War Women. The railroad was creating a national market for …
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… grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and … upon journalism as an important tool to raise public awareness of serious societal problems. Investigative …
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… Grief from the Poetry Foundation Literature of the Civil War “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865) from …
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… literature. Two valuable point of departure might be: Civil War Humor Allow each group to offer a perspective, writing …
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… Horace Pippin turned to art after serving in World War I in the African American regiment known as the Harlem … the work of contemporary artists. Through her teaching at Howard University for more than forty years, Mailou Jones …
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… Spread your blanket on the ground It's always bright and warm You can sleep right on the ground." But listen to me … duds. From the east and west and north and south Like a swarm of bees we come; The migratory workers Are worse off … of a witness, accompanied by photographs. Between the Wars: The Dust Bowl , a series of brief diary excerpts …
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… pilgrims for wanting a holiday? Hit by wave after wave of war, plague, starvation, and rebellion, threatened by the … guides on a vivid journey through Hell and Purgatory towards a final beatific vision of God. Although the plan is …
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… by Abraham Lincoln in a speech before the American Civil War. Ask students to unpack its meaning. A country, …
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… Carolina—also went into bankruptcy. On the eve of the Civil War, there were 500,000 free blacks living in the United …
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… (resources, crops...) and historic (religions, events, wars, people, current events, leaders...) details that they …
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… vivid imagery of his experiences as a soldier in World War I, his loves won and lost, and his family. Ask students …
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… Creating the Office of the Presidency yes Photo caption Howard Chandler Christy's painting of the signing of the … s” (June 15, 1787) The power to "make" but not "declare war" (August 17, 1787) Brearly Committee recommends … 15? What was the objection(s) of allowing Congress "to make war?" What were the objections to giving the president the …
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… Amendment demonstration proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol July 9, 1978. Flickr The Preamble of … laws across the country well into the 20th century. World War II and the start of the Cold War also pointed out the …
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… A 1675 conflict with the Indians known as King Philip's War had resulted in more deaths relative to the size of the population than any other war in American history. A decade later, in 1685, King James …
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… he blended the best of both skills and was ultimately awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 "in … and political policies. Though he received many honors and awards before his death in 1936, he refused all but the 1907 … paragraph of the story: "This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the …