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… 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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… 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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… 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 … in the volume Renascence ; available online at the Women's Studies Database Reading Room , a link from Academy …
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… fears of the Framers. For background information about the history and interpretation of the Constitution, see the … come to mind: the struggles for abolitionism and women's suffrage. Examples of oratory from each movement are …
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… 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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… addressing a broader imperial vision for the British. While women, enslaved people, and indentured servants were … European Contests for Empire on EDSITEment-reviewed Digital History . A short explanation of covenant chain from the …
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… 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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… 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 … children sundered for slaveholders’ profit; he saw enslaved women’s lives devastated by their owners’ sexual …
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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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… 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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… 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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… task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we … of that era. They reflected that “first rough draft of history” and helped to define what was important. Between … Treaty of Versailles Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's First Draft Lesson Plan Chronicling and Mapping …
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… —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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… 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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… , 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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… 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 … Ask students to look particularly at the clothing that the women are wearing. Does this help them to place the general …
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… Can You Haiku? yes 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 Photo caption Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party beneath blossoming … haiku by Basho. Haiku for People! A website celebrating the history of haiku and its development into a form of poetry … art of the haiku, provide them with a brief outline of its history and development, drawing on the background available …
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… significant. Preparation The Civil War erupted after a long history of compromises and sectional debates over … Lesson 4: Life Before the Civil War Lesson Plan Lesson 5: Women's Lives Before the Civil War List three differences …
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… war? What does your version tell us about the position of women in the culture? What does your version tell us about … Plan Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages History & Social Studies World History K-5 08/27/10 Middle …
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… are available from The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History , a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters … Era (1765-1790) African American American Revolution Women’s History …
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… in her signature white dress . Dickinson, like many women of her day, even communicated through the 19th-century “language of flowers.” Women in the Victorian age used flowers to send messages and …
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… Nonfiction Sources in The Grapes of Wrath yes Photo caption 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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… 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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… 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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… intellectual like Raskolnikov, someone with no criminal history, to commit murder with an axe? Discussion of this … his belief that the great movers and shakers of history committed many crimes that were necessary and … 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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… 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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… 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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… 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 … Writers Project interviews available in the " American Life Histories " collection at the American Memory website. …