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… BackStory: Another Burden to Bear … Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History … Related Content … … . The segment delves into the efforts of a group of Latina women who were sterilized under coercion or without being …
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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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… Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan … … as primary documents to help them gain insight on Japanese history. Preparation The Edo Period (1603-1868) in Japan is … is also a significant lack of information on the lives of women other than geisha artists—they do not address domestic …
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… War Literature: Being There or Not … April 23, 2018 Steve Moyer yes Word and pen, or Ventures and Adventures of … 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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… BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 … Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History … Related Content … … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women … Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights …
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… Introducing Jane Eyre … yes 'Jane Eyre', 1931 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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… Evaluating Eyewitness Reports … yes Chicago in Ruins after the Fire of 1871. … 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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… Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia … yes Portrait of Willa … 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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… 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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… Lesson 3: Victory and the New Order in Europe … yes Conference … 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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… Edith Wharton: War Correspondent … yes American author Edith Wharton, shown here … 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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… 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 Suzanne Art …
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… Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930s … yes … limited support this way, "There has been for some months, especially since the filibuster, a growing feeling … bill in the 1930s is complex but unraveling that history has a collateral benefit for secondary students. By …
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… Mexican Revolution: November 20th, 1910 … March 19, 2012 yes Mexican Revolution collage Photo caption Mexican … 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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… Afro Atlantic Art: Portraits … yes Portrait of Black man in loose collared shirt and … an artist and educator, Hendricks was keenly aware that the history of European and North American art largely omitted … goddess of love, affirming the beauty and power of Black women. In addition to her artistic practice, Burroughs was …
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… Building Suburbia: Highways and Housing in Postwar America … yes … 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 …
Teacher's Guide
This Teacher’s Guide offers a collection of lessons and resources for K-12 social studies, literature, and arts classrooms that center around the experiences, achievements, and perspectives of…
Summer Programs
A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture and History in the Arkansas Delta is an Alex Foundation six day, two week residential workshop. This new workshop will bring together 60 6-12 grade teachers…
Summer Programs
"The Missing Stories: Reclaiming History through Community Archives" is a six-day institute for high school educators designed around the methods employed by community-based archives, which not…
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… Fiction and Nonfiction for AP English Literature and Composition … September 19, 2012 yes Mural … 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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… Backstory: Give Us the Ballot from "LBJ and the Great Society" … Audio A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History … Related Content … … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women … Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights …
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… Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language … yes Painting of … 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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… 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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… 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 … has historically affected literary creation, particularly women’s writing Identify and effectively analyze poetry of … 03/28/11 … Editor … EDSITEment Team 01/09/20 Poetry Women’s History …
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… Truth and Memory in the Mississippi Delta: What the Emmett Till Case Means Today … … Trust for Historic Preservation. “Visiting the places where history happened and hearing from people who lived it is … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women … Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights …
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… Lesson 2: The Social Security Act … yes Franklin D. Roosevelt … 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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… “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. … yes Photo of Kurt … or biotechnological enhancement? In May 1961, about five months prior to the appearance of Vonnegut’s “Harrison …
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… Stories in Quilts … yes A quilting party in an Alvin, … 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 …
Summer Programs
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,…