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Teacher's Guide
Our Teacher's Guide offers a collection of lessons and resources for K-12 social studies, literature, and arts classrooms that center around the achievements, perspectives, and experiences of…
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… Lesson 2: The "To Do List" of the Continental Congress yes … American Memory .) On November 5, 1781, less than three months after the “To Do List” was brought to Congress, and … regarding the role of the President? A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies Civics U.S. History Who Was Really …
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… Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From … drawing life from that distant time when the study of history, philosophy, arts, literature, and language itself … of the drama, the interlocking conflicts between men and women, age and youth, society and the individual, human …
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… Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia yes Photo caption Portrait of … paid for their modest successes. Combining the study of history and literature, the goal of these activities is to … context of My Antonia , begin with the EDSITEment resource Women of the West Museum , which can also be used by …
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… The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism yes Photo caption Civil War-era portrait of a Federal … by General Alfred Pleasonton, from "The Century Illustrated Monthly" Magazine, May 1886 to October 1886, located in The … Homer on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History , a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website …
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… Introducing Jane Eyre yes Photo caption "Jane Eyre", 1931. Wikimedia Commons What was life like for women during the Victorian age? You will explore several … rather than British, it does present attitudes towards women's roles that would be familiar to a British audience. …
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… Edith Wharton: War Correspondent yes Photo caption American author Edith Wharton, … and Manuscript Library "Dazed and slowly moving—men and women with sordid bundles on their backs, shuffling along … Students may wish to attend a sports event, a living history event, or a historic reenactment to recapture a …
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… "Common Sense": The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy yes Photo caption … One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common … best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. Never before had a pamphlet been …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: About Editing Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content …
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… Backstory: Give Us the Ballot from "LBJ and the Great Society" Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Closer … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women Media Resource BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Historical Significance Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail yes Photo caption Oregon National Historic Trail in Wyoming. … know about pioneers. Who were they? With what period in history are they associated? Where did they come from? Where … that they are going to move to this distant state one month from now. Have students brainstorm a list of questions …
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… Lesson 6: On the Road with Marco Polo: Sea Voyage to India yes … and into the islands of Indonesia. They spent five months on the island of Sumatra, waiting for the monsoon … change the economies and cultures of the places he visited? History & Social Studies World History 6-8 1-2 11/13/09 …
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… Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake Image History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Multiple Perspectives Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… Quick Digital Research Tip: Using Chronicling America for NHD Research Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content …
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… Quick Digital Research Tip: Using Chronicling America's Advanced Search Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content …
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… Why Here?: Eatonville, Florida and Zora Neale Hurston Video Literature & Language Arts Fiction History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Lesson …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Wide Research Video History & Social Studies U.S. History …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Building an Argument Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… Analyzing Photographs from Across A Changing Nation yes Photo caption Children … and limitations of photographs as tools for understanding history? As a historian, why is it important to consider … requiring that students have access to a set of oral histories from the same time and place documented in the NEA …
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… In the Field: War Ink Video A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Art & Culture Media …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Validating Sources Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Writing and Editing Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language …
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… In Performance at the White House: B.B. King Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Art & Culture Music …
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… Veterans Speak: War, Trauma, and the Humanities yes Photo caption … to encourage humanities programs that focus on the history, experience, or meaning of war and military service …
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… Ask an NEH Expert: Using Digital Archives Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content …
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… BackStory: Forgotten Flu—America and the 1918 Pandemic Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Lesson …
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… Blues Reflections Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History World History Art & …