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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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… 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 …
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… Evaluating Eyewitness Reports yes Photo caption Chicago in Ruins after the Fire … website Digital Classroom . Background information on the history of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , as well as … literature of recollections written by Confederate women after the Civil War. For additional examples, go to …
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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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… 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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On July 9, 1860, the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama. On board were 110 enslaved Africans transported directly from West Africa. They were the last enslaved persons imported to the United…
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… The Mexican Revolution: November 20th, 1910 March 19, 2012 yes Photo caption Mexican Revolution collage Wikimedia … desperate and poor campesinos ; and the different types of women who joined the struggle. Towards the end of the book, … conquistadores , while also recognizing Mexico’s shared history and culture. The Mexican muralists influenced …
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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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… 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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… Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America yes Photo … Act of 1956. They will also examine documents about the history of Levittown, the most famous and most important of … William Chafe and Alice Kessler-Harris on the role of women in postwar life. The National Museum of American …
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… Lesson 3: Victory and the New Order in Europe yes Photo … could continue to coexist as allies. Throughout modern history, former Grand Alliances—including the ones that … pushed the Germans back. On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), only a month behind the original schedule, British and American …
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… Fiction and Nonfiction for AP English Literature and Composition September 19, 2012 yes Photo … literary strategies are used to present one’s own story and history through … England. This lesson, focusing on class and the status of women, teaches students how to use a work of fiction as a …
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… Lesson 4: On the Road with Marco Polo: Crossing the Deserts of … set out across the Gobi, Asia's largest desert. For over a month they trekked through this harsh wasteland. Marco … transport goods through the Taklimakan and Gobi deserts? History & Social Studies World History 6-8 1-2 11/13/09 …
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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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… Lesson 1: 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the … from voting.) According to the EDSITEment-reviewed website Women of the West Museum , in the period from 1792-1844, the … affect the voting population? A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History The 1828 Campaign of …
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Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations” will examine history through the neighborhood of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California. Joined by scholars, educators, curators,…
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… Lesson 2: The Social Security Act yes Photo caption Franklin … direct federal or state pensions for the poor had a limited history. In Europe, however, there was a long tradition of … comment on the state role, small business owners, workers, women, and African-Americans who might have a variety of …
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… Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: Who's the Real Misfit? yes … grace of God in the grotesqueries of the world," ( Georgia Women of Achievement , via Internet Public Library) continue … Southern "binaries" of black and white and Southern history and progress. In this lesson, students will explore …
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… Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply … defended her right to be an intellectual, suggesting that women should be educated and educators and accusing men of … File (PDF) 03/28/11 Editor EDSITEment Team 01/09/20 Poetry Women’s History …
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… Stories in Quilts yes Photo caption A quilting party in an … Quilting continues to be largely a home-based form of women's artistic expression. Quilts can be works of art as … of the people who create them, and that record the cultural history of a particular place and time. Preparation Review …
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… 2011 Jefferson Lecture: Drew Gilpin Faust Video History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Lesson … Southern intellectual history and proslavery ideology, women and gender in the antebellum South, and the social and …
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… Memorial Day: Commemoration, Rediscovery, and Reconsideration May 19, 2017 Joe Phelan yes … it is an occasion to pay tribute to those men and women who have died in defense of the homeland. There is a … experiences to bear on these discussions. Teachers of world history on the lookout for complex informational texts that …
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… Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales yes Photo caption Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle … handouts of your own: Victorian Web A Timeline of British History The Gentleman Victorian Women — Social and Economic Status: Class and Occupation The …
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… Science, Shakespeare, and the STEM Humanities April 02, 2014 … and culture. Patricia Tuohy, Head, Exhibition Program, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, … be cold and dry. Men as a sex were hotter and drier than women. With this near universal understanding, the …
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… The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad yes Photo caption The ceremony for the … paragraph summary and four images of important documents. History of the Union Pacific Railroad — Four brief essays on … from the EDSITEment-reviewed website Documents of Civil War Women. The railroad was creating a national market for goods …
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… Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language yes Photo caption … porter of heaven. He opens the year and January. the first month, is named in honor of him. In this way, Janus is the … looks two ways. Learn more about the god, Janus and his month of January from the Internet Sacred Texts Archive . …
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… Montaigne “On Cruelty”: A Close Reading of a Classic Essay yes Photo caption Michel de … attempt to avert the looming disaster … thoughtful men and women were asking the most basic questions about the social … and what he feels like when he does it. This is new in the history of Western thought. Directions The following version …