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… The Massachusetts 54th Regiment: Honoring the Heroes … yes Robert … 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 Sword and pen: or, Ventures and adventures of Willard … —Walt Whitman, Battle of Bull Run , July, 1861 … Civil War Women … Mary Chesnut (1823-1886), diarist. Photo caption … 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 Seal of the National Association for the Advancement … 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 Photograph of … 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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… Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy … yes "Pulling Down the Statue of King George III in New York … 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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… 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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… The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage … yes Civil War-era portrait of a Federal soldier. Photo caption … 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 …
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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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… Can You Haiku? … yes Three women and a man having a small tea party beneath … blossoming cherry trees. Photo caption Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party beneath blossoming …
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… The World of Haiku … yes Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party … haiku by Basho. Haiku for People! A website celebrating the history of haiku and its development into a form of poetry …
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… Exploring Arthurian Legend … yes Title page of The Boy's King Arthur Photo caption Title … war? What does your version tell us about the position of women in the culture? What does your version tell us about … Ages … Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages History & Social Studies World History K-5 08/27/10 Middle …
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… Lesson 4: The Monroe Doctrine: Whose Doctrine Was It? … yes … of each man by studying his role in American diplomatic history and his statements. Preparation NOTES TO THE … Luis de Onís demonstrates Adams's negotiating style in the months before the Adams–Onís Treaty (the Adams–Onís Treaty …
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… Voices of the American Revolution … yes "Molly Pitcher" at the … are available from The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History , a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters … question Who was Molly Pitcher? and understand the role of women during the American Revolution. … D. African American …
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… Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in The Grapes of Wrath … yes Women washing clothes. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, … of Wrath is available in The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . A detailed discussion of The Reception …
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… Flowers from Emily … yes Emily Dickinson Photo caption Emily … in her signature white dress . Dickinson, like many women of her day, even communicated through the 19th-century …
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… Lesson 1: United States Entry into World War I: Two … wholesale destruction of the lives of noncombatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can …
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… and American Art: Part One … January 10, 2017 Joe Phelan yes That liberty shall not perish from the earth Photo caption … in the armed forces to help prevent further outrages to women and children! Equally powerful is Joseph Pennell’s … also look at the legacy of the war. A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History Art & Culture Painting …
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… Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron” … yes Sarah Orne Jewett … financially by writing, an option that had opened up for women by the late nineteenth-century. She became kindred … insisted that this was the best supper he had eaten for a month, and afterward the new-made friends sat down in the …
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… Lesson 2: Man and Superman … yes Portrait of the Writer Fyodor … intellectual like Raskolnikov, someone with no criminal history, to commit murder with an axe? Discussion of this … journal; someone, it would seem, unlikely to murder two women with an axe. Why did he do it? At times even he seems …
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… Flannery O'Connor's South … yes Flannery O'Connor (right) at Amana Colonies in … Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's virtual exhibition America on the Move . Explore … also in terms of gender, as roles for and stereotypes of women are evolving at this time as well. Go to the …
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… African American Keywords for Chronicling America … Website History & Social Studies U.S. History … Related Content … … Atlantic Diaspora Media Resource … Voices of Democracy: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Struggle … Voices of …
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… Presidential Inaugurations: I Do Solemnly Swear … yes Calvin … a Bible) or "affirm" their oath (on some other book). Two months before Franklin Pierce became President, his family — … ("On the Pulse of Morning") and Miller Williams ("Of History and Hope") read poetry at Bill Clinton's …
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… Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Witch Hunting for the Classroom … October … and the Salem witch trials … EDSITEment lesson Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible , offers an engaging … as respectable people from all walks of life—landowners, women of independent means, neighbors, even clergy—were …
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… Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words … yes Woman at … Have them make observations and inferences about the women and children, their clothing, the room they are in, … and briefly discuss what is left out of this documentary history of a day in the life of one person living through …
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… The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and … Shirtwaist Fire from Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 to the Present on the … Triangle Factory Fire , a link from the EDSITEment resource Women and Social Movements Introduction Sweatshops and …
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… A Day for the Constitution … yes Image of the U.S. flag and the U.S. … would eventually lead to deadlock during the first two months of the Convention. September 17th is Constitution Day … its work in June. The following resources offer more on the history of the institution, its rulings, those who have …
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… Lesson 1: How Did Surnames Come to Be? … yes A stand at … Historic Dockyard offering information on surname history. Photo caption A stand at Portsmouth Historic … Bartholomew), and Hewitt (little Hugh). And what about women's names? In the male-dominated society of medieval …
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… Having Fun: The Economics of Leisure … yes E. C. Stearns & Company of Syracuse, New … 29 million people in the American workforce including men, women, and children. Americans worked an average of 59 hours … list of Web resources below. Create a brief report on its history and significance, its associated costs, and who …
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… FDR’s “Four Freedoms” Speech … yes FDR Four Freedoms engraving, … among the most gifted orators in American Presidential history. A large part of his reputation for eloquence comes … to note that the speech was delivered almost exactly 11 months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time …