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… The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas February 10, 2012 yes … quiet home!" — Charles Dickens Each year, December brings a month filled with holidays, celebrations complete with a … including Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Kwanzaa The History of Kwanzaa provides an extensive history of this …
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… Backstory: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The History of America’s Wealthy Elite Audio A More Perfect …
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… The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) August 19, … "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their … National American Women’s Suffrage Association, 1848–1921 History Matters The Amazonian Convention “The Solitude of …
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… In Her Shoes: Lois Weber and the Female Filmmakers Who Shaped Early … Producer, and Actress Introduce students to the work of women filmmakers in early Hollywood with this comprehensive … describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. …
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… BackStory: Shattering the Glass Ceiling Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Media … Access for All Lesson Plan Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement Teacher's Guide Chronicling …
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… Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail yes Photo caption "The Oregon … know about pioneers. Who were they? With what period in history are they associated? Where did they come from? Where … 7." Students may also wish to visit the EDSITEment-reviewed Women of the West website for accounts of the lives of women …
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… The Mexican Revolution yes Photo caption General Emiliano Zapata sits with members of … into a reasoned argument about the past. AP World History: Modern Topic 7.1 Shifting Power After 1900 Learning … following are prohibited: unhealthful or dangerous work by women and by minors under sixteen years of age; industrial …
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… Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine yes Photo caption Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. Wikimedia … domestic duties and a Victorian culture that discouraged women from having literary aspirations. Through the … also has a wealth of resources related to Victorian social history , including the brief The Position of Middle-class …
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… Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies yes Photo caption Abigail Adams was the … Representatives. In 1920, the 19th Amendment finally gave women the right to vote. In the absence of official power, … "a significant role in shaping the political and social history of our country, impacting virtually every topic that …
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… Helen Keller Archival Collection Website A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Formatted Title The … and Live Archives Lesson Plan Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement Teacher's Guide Preparing for …
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… On the Home Front yes Photo caption We Can Do It! Rosy the Riveter Poster. … the American people, "This whole nation of 130 million men, women and children is becoming one great fighting force." … You Do In the War, Grandma? It Was Everybody's War: An Oral History A Teenage Volunteer Too Young to Join the WACS …
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… Romare Bearden's "The Dove": A Meeting of Vision and Sound yes Photo … of the magazine: Editing Art Local News Music Reviews History Poetry Supplemental Material Link the study of art … Blues Closer Reading Jazz Beyond Borders: Jazz Appreciation Month 2019 Media Resource The Jazz Ambassadors Teacher's …
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… A Spectrum of Perspectives: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era … American activism against segregation and oppression; women’s rights and suffrage; and colonialism, imperialism, … and the Gilded Age will be helpful, but they will learn the history of the fair and the broader history of the era …
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… Glossary of Terms for Film Discussion and Analysis January 06, … Media Arts Media Arts Film/Movie Media Resource BackStory: Women at Work Lesson Plan Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film Lesson Plan Shakespeare's Julius …
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… Music of the Harlem Renaissance Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language … Cool" Closer Reading Jazz Beyond Borders: Jazz Appreciation Month 2019 Featured Image Photo caption Duke Ellington at …
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… Lesson 3: The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy yes Photo … 1950 he made a bombshell speech. Addressing the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, he announced that … once and for all. A painful chapter in America's history had at last come to its close. For those wanting …
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Women actively participated in shaping the nascent film industry of the early twentieth century, both as screen stars and behind the camera. But why is this history missing from our understanding…
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… George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Presidents' Day holiday … and Lincoln stand out as unrivaled figures in American history. Their importance is reflected in the large number … February 22nd never falls on the third Monday of the month. All of this congressional debate, of course, took …
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… Presidential Inaugurations: A Capitol Parade on a Cold Winter's … inaugurations came at some of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In the four months that separated his election victory in November of …
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… Bring Your Classroom to Life Through Diplomatic Oral Histories September 21, 2018 Maureen McNicholl yes Photo … that is often overlooked but ideally suited to the world history, civics, or global studies curriculum -- the oral …
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… What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories yes Photo caption The Smithsonian's National …
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… Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories yes Photo caption Bound for the Klondike gold … stand-alone sections from this lesson that deal with the history of the Gold Rush era. While the emphasis of this … in categories including White Pass, Chilkoot Pass, Women, and Transportation. Click on the thumbnails for …
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… Lesson 2: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Realism and Local Color … to the region, such as specific roles or assumptions for women or children (see the first passage in "Selected … is usually dated from the first publication in the Overland Monthly in 1868 of Bret Harte's stories of California mining …
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… Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands yes Photo caption Portrait of Anne Frank, age … of a Young Girl by connecting the diary to the study of history and to honor the legacy of Anne Frank, the writer, … U.S. Holocaust Museum website. Students should record the month and date of each country's defeat by Germany. …
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… EDSITEment's Recommended Reading List for College-Bound … can also gain valuable insights in the study of social history. This lesson examines two themes in this novel — the status of women and the nature of class. Brontë, Charlotte : Jane Eyre …
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… The Great Society and the Case for the Humanities yes Photo caption As … October is designated as National Arts and Humanities month in the United States. But, what is meant by the … as the study and interpretation of languages, history, literature, jurisprudence, philosophy, comparative …
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… The Preamble to the Constitution: A Close Reading Lesson yes Photo caption The … fears of the Framers. For background information about the history and interpretation of the Constitution, see the … come to mind: the struggles for abolitionism and women's suffrage. Examples of oratory from each movement are …
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… The Autumn of the Middle Ages: Chaucer and Dante April 20, 2012 yes Photo caption … his clarions and many other minstrels. And if these men and women be a month out in their pilgrimage, many of them shall … Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History offers additional context in their essay and …
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… Lesson 2: The House Un-American Activities Committee yes Photo … the Soviet Union. One of the most famous episodes in HUAC's history was its investigation of Hollywood. In this case the … anticommunism in American popular culture—Treasure Chest, a monthly comic book published by the Catholic Guild. Although …