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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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… 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 …
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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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… Lesson 3: Societal Schisms and Divisions yes Photo caption … 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 Photo caption Boy's frock or gown, 1800s. Wikimedia … 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 Photo caption Zora … . 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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… 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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… The Social Security Act yes Photo caption Social Security card … 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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… American Diplomacy in World War II yes Photo caption Sir Winston Churchill, 1942. Wikimedia Commons The most terrible war in human history, World War II was fought by the United States to … Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor Student Activity Women Aviators in WWII WWII (1939-1945) International …
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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 … Rights Act of 1964 Media Resource Voices of Democracy: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Struggle Lesson Plan Civil …
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… Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet yes Photo caption … 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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… Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia? yes Photo … 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 Photo caption … 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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… Man in the Middle: Thomas Day and the Free Black Experience yes Photo caption Furniture by Thomas Day - North Carolina Museum of History. Wikimedia Commons Thomas Day (1801–ca. 1861) was a … 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 yes … 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 Photo caption … 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 Photo caption President Lincoln and his son Thaddeus. … 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 Photo caption Map of the Thirteen … , 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 …
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… The Massachusetts 54th Regiment: Honoring the Heroes yes Photo … It might represent the angel of death because within two months over half of the men would die in battle, or a figure … heroic or super hero powers. Students should not alter history, but rather demonstrate the characteristics of the …
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… Literature of the Civil War November 19, 2019 yes Photo caption Sword and pen: or, Ventures and adventures … —Walt Whitman, Battle of Bull Run , July, 1861 Civil War Women Photo caption Mary Chesnut (1823-1886), diarist. … student. [*See below]. Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History through Analyzing Primary Sources allows students to …
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… Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and Civil Rights yes Photo caption Seal of the National Association for the … Launchpad . Review the essay " Film as Social and Cultural History ," available on the History Matters! website . … Assessment Birth of a Nation opened in Boston a couple of months after its New York premiere. The NAACP spearheaded …
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… FDR: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor yes Photo caption … of other Presidents? What has Eleanor Roosevelt meant for women's rights and civil rights? How should President Franklin Roosevelt be remembered in history? Analyze the events and circumstances surrounding …
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… The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal … as they exist today. Finally, students reflect back on history and argue whether they believe Hamilton or Jefferson … people to do the right thing. These men and others spent months deliberating about how much centralized government …
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… Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before … , available via a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed website History Matters . Selected EDSITEment Websites American … Call on You to Deliver Us from the Tyrant's Chain: Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten-Hour Workday" (circa 1845) …
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… Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy yes Photo caption "Pulling Down the Statue of King George III … Digital Classroom offers The Declaration of Independence: A History and The Constitution: A History for background on … did blame Parliament. Even as late as July 1775, three months after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the …
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… What's in a Picture? An Introduction to Subject in the Visual … of an artwork has comprised a significant component of art history over the course of the discipline, particularly in … of this dance studio? Ask students to focus on the group of women in the upper right hand corner of the image. If your …
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… The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage yes Photo caption Civil War-era portrait of a Federal soldier. … by George Parsons Lathrop (page 257 page 258 Scribner's Monthly , Volume XXII, May 1881 to Oct. 1881, inclusive), … moments tenuously linked by narrative, a presentation of 'history' in the manner of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic …