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… Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field yes Photo … ended. However, it would take days for the news to spread, months before troops returned home (on either side of the … War Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History The Getty A Harvest of Death Library of Congress …
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… Origins of Halloween and the Day of the Dead February 16, 2012 yes … an analogy between human death and the dark, cold winter months that loom ahead. While trick or treating in princess … with students as a framework for discussing the origins and history of the Halloween festival and introducing them to …
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… Lesson 1: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali (Student … a sense of the “lay of the land.” Go to Mali: Geography and History : Read the first paragraph and then find Timbuktu ( … time of year? Would the temperature vary very much from month to month? Activity 3. The Niger River Did you notice …
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… The Statue of Liberty: Bringing “The New Colossus” to America … activities for students in grades 6–8 who are studying U.S. history through 1877. It also provides guided explorations … analysis of the poem, " The New Colossus ," from the Jewish Women's Archive a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Internet …
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… Revolutionary Tea Parties and the Reasons for Revolution yes Photo caption Portrait … 1764–1775 , a timeline available on American Memory . Tax History Project , a comprehensive article on the events … attempt to resolve the conflict during the final peacetime months. This proposal was presented to the House of Commons …
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… Lesson 1: From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song … "The slaves selected to go to the Great House Farm, for the monthly allowance for themselves and their fellow-slaves, … explores how spirituals play a role in African-American history, from the Underground Railroad to the Civil Rights …
Teacher's Guide
This Teacher's Guide includes place-based history resources and activity ideas to help students recognize the value of studying historic and cultural sites across the United States…
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This Teacher's Guide will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with…
Teacher's Guide
Our collection of resources is designed to assist students and teachers as they prepare their NHD projects and highlights the long partnership that has existed between the National Endowment…
Teacher's Guide
Based on this model oral history experience, the toolkit includes instructional concepts, ideas, and strategies for use by educators to design a curriculum that reflects their instructional goals…
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… Japanese American Internment Camps during WWII yes Photo caption … Whereas, the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American men, women, and children in the WRA camps had no due process of … through the California State University Japanese American History Digitization Project (CSUJAD) . Use the CSUJAD …
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… Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source … a novel as a "primary" source—a way to learn about social history, students can gain valuable insights. Fictional … information. This lesson examines two themes—the status of women and the nature of class—in Jane Austen's masterpiece …
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… Lesson 1: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: No Choice but Under? … available through Domestic Goddesses: AKA Scribbling Women (a link from EDSITEment-reviewed Kate Chopin: A … of the article (which deals predominantly with the history of Louisiana Creole culture). The article extends …
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… Frederick Douglass’s Narrative: Myth of the Happy Slave yes Photo caption … are expected to have some knowledge of slavery in U.S. history in the pre- Civil War period. Background Slave … who were selected to go to the home plantation to get the monthly food allowance for the slaves on their farm. …
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… The Amendments Project Website History & Social Studies Civics U.S. History Related Content … Transformed the Constitution Lesson Plan Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage Lesson Plan The Supreme Court: …
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EDSITEment brings online humanities resources directly to the classroom through exemplary lesson plans and student activities. EDSITEment develops AP level lessons based on primary source…
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Created through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, Chronicling America offers visitors the ability to search and view newspaper…
Summer Programs
This workshop will focus on the twin themes of history and memory, and how together they reinforce the perception of Gettysburg as “hallowed ground.” Led by specialists in Civil War history,…
Our collection of resources is designed to assist students and teachers as they prepare their NHD projects and highlights the long partnership that has existed between the National Endowment…
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… Life in the North and South 1847–1861: Before Brother Fought Brother yes Photo … Preparation Instructions The Civil War erupted after a long history of compromises and sectional debates over … on differences between the North and South. Lesson 5: Women's Lives Before the Civil War What was life like for …
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… Chaucer's "Wife of Bath" yes Photo caption Geoffrey Chaucer. … of St. Paul and St. Jerome, two men whose opinions about women the Wife specifically alludes to in her Prologue. In … Geoffrey Chaucer Website Sex, Society, and Medieval Women Women in Medieval Society As one possible exercise, … & Language Arts Reading 9-12 01/16/11 11/21/19 Women’s History …
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… Magical Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude yes Photo caption … García Márquez actually recapitulates episodes in the history of Latin America through the story of real and … and felt an inspiration. He wrote daily for eighteen months, almost bankrupting his family, and finally finished …
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… Alexis de Tocqueville’s Warning: The Tyranny of the Majority … Alexis de Tocqueville, visited the United States. His nine-month sojourn led to the writing of Democracy in America , … mitigate the tyranny of the majority. A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies Civics U.S. History Revolutionary …
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… BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Media … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women Curriculum Competing Voices of the Civil Rights …
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… Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American … and knowledge were entirely reserved for men, the education women could have was very basic, furthermore, women were not … how to think, read, and write critically about literature History & Social Studies World History Literature & Language …
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… Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context … Ad*Access site, a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters site, provides an excellent look at popular … of Congress American Memory Collection. b. The National Women's History Project's A Timeline of the Women's Rights …
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… Lesson 3: United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary … I Chronology on The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website … of Great Britain in relying on passengers including men, women and children of the United States to give immunity to …
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… Lesson 2. “Read All About It”: Primary Source Reading in … changed the dynamic in Washington D.C. Within a few months of publication of The Jungle , Congress passed two … when covering the U.S. government? A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History The Jungle, …
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… War Literature: Being There or Not April 23, 2018 Steve Moyer yes Photo caption Word and Pen or, Ventures and … of many genres: epic, tragedy, comedy, narrative poetry, history play, novel, short story, memoir, and lyric poetry. … far as we know, never experienced war himself, based Trojan Women and other plays on myth and epic. Both Iliad and …