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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 …
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… Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales … yes Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Lucie, … 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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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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… 2011 Jefferson Lecture: Drew Gilpin Faust … Video History & Social Studies U.S. History … Related Content … … Southern intellectual history and proslavery ideology, women and gender in the antebellum South, and the social and …
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… Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words: Letters and Poems … … 444 through 447 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Atlantic Monthly essay, ending with "But, will you be my preceptor, …
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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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… Science, Shakespeare, and the STEM Humanities … April 02, … 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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… Montaigne “On Cruelty”: A Close Reading of a Classic Essay … yes Michel de Montaigne … 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 …
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… The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad … yes The ceremony for the driving of … 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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… Lesson 3: Societal Schisms and Divisions … yes Portrait of the … Dostoyevsky’s mid-nineteenth century Russia offered women narrowly circumscribed roles, most often resulting in …
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… Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740–1840 … yes Boy's frock or gown, 1800s. Photo caption Boy's frock or … go about finding out what life was like at other points in history? Which objects from the past have remained part of … Latta Plantation , a link from the EDSITEment resource Women of the West Museum . … Activity 11. An Early American …
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… Slavery in the Colonial North … February 12, 2019 Historic … he was part of a community of twenty-three enslaved men, women, and children who lived together at Philipsburg Manor. … students engage with this subject. A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Early Republic …
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… Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God … yes Zora Neale … . Students will read the novel, explore Hurston's own life history and collection methods, listen to her WPA recordings … from American Studies is the etiological folktale " Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men " which not only contains …
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… The Social Security Act … yes Social Security card featuring … listen, follow these steps: 1. Go to http://www.ssa.gov/history/1935radiodebate.html 2. Right-click on "RealAudio … the state, dollar for dollar, up to fifteen dollars per month by the federal government, and any amount more, which …
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… Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckly: The Material and Emotional Realities … on major slaveholding estates. Children throughout human history have always found moments where they could enjoy the … Review “‘ I was Born a Slave:’ Two African American Women Relate their Childhood Years and the Growing Awareness …
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… American Diplomacy in World War II … yes Sir Winston Churchill, 1942. Photo caption Sir Winston … 1942. Wikimedia Commons The most terrible war in human history, World War II was fought by the United States to … Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor Student Activity … Women Aviators in WWII … Women Aviators in WWII Curriculum … …
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… "Fill Up the Jails": Creative Protest and the Virtual Martin Luther King Project … Website A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language … of the 20th Century Media Resource … Voices of Democracy: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Struggle … Voices of …
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… Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet … yes William … Start by sharing with your students some details about the history of the sonnet form. Provide students with a little … (From the website One Phoenix: Four Seventeenth-Century Women Poets , a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Internet …
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… Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave and the Slave … is capable. Reading the great slave narratives of U.S. history, we discover unimaginable depravity in the … narratives of the pre-Civil War era come to us from men and women who grew up enslaved and didn’t escape until they were …
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This two-week workshop, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will immerse K-12 teachers in the ancient Olympic Games and the local life going on around those games. We'll delve…
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Pacific Crossings: Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories, 1870 to the Present will illuminate the long history of resistance by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their allies in…
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… Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia? … yes … Hammurabi's Code. This lesson is designed to extend world history curricula on Mesopotamia and to give students a more … small owners. Number one hundred and eight indicates that women could own at least some kinds of businesses in Old …
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… Twelve Years a Slave: Analyzing Slave Narratives … yes Engraving of … this unique literary tradition, formerly enslaved men and women report what they experienced and witnessed during … to each of the four other key institutions in our history. More than any other literary form, the American …
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… Remembering Fela … Audio History & Social Studies Geography World History Art & … made in English both paradoxical and powerful? How do women, and violence against them, figure in Things Fall …
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… Using Chronicling America to Tell a Fuller Story: How … events. Newspapers can reveal not only turning points in history and the speed of those turns but also the debates … reports on the activities of groups such as the Women's Hawaiian Patriotic League show the actions being …
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… Man in the Middle: Thomas Day and the Free Black Experience … yes Furniture by Thomas Day - North Carolina Museum of History. Photo caption Furniture by Thomas Day - North … of his era, yet he and many other free black men and women in the South as well as the North navigated the …
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… Lesson 4: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Burying Addie's Voice … … have difficulty understanding the historical situation of women in the 1920s. Teachers might remind students, for … You may draw additional historical context from the History Channel Timeline . Teachers might also emphasize the …
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… Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue … yes Portrait of … definition of dramatic monologue, Browning's role in the history of the form, and his subsequent influence on … especially that Browning was born in 1812, within a few months of Charles Dickens. As a further point of interest, …
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… Picture Lincoln … yes President Lincoln and his son Thaddeus. Photo caption … Gardner's photograph of Lincoln taken a little over two months before his death. They look for clues to Lincoln's … period. Learn more about this development at Inaugural History from the PBS Newshour. ) … Photographer … Alexander …
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… American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins … yes Map of the Thirteen Original … , available through EDSITEment-reviewed resource Digital History , and read background information about New England, … include, at a minimum, the following components: A date (month, day, and year) A description of the child's day, A …