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… learning, and teaching. About W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born in Massachusetts in 1868, was, … critical role played by Black Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. For Du Bois, race and class were …
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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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… would eventually erupt into wholesale massacre and civil war. As Stephen Greenblatt observes “there were strong …
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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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… 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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… 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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… Relief Map Ziggurats Student Activity EDSITEment’s Persian Wars Resource Pages Lesson Plan Hammurabi's Code: What Does …
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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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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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… 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 …
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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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… to her husband Ulysses, long overdue from the Trojan War. Contemporary Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood’s …
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… (resources, crops...) and historic (religions, events, wars, people, current events, leaders...) details that they …