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… stand-alone sections from this lesson that deal with the history of the Gold Rush era. While the emphasis of this … in categories including White Pass, Chilkoot Pass, Women, and Transportation. Click on the thumbnails for …
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… 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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… 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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… . 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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… 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 … determine what happened in the past so that they can write history. This information can be stored in various formats …
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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 … of the 20th Century Media Resource Voices of Democracy: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Struggle Lesson Plan Civil …
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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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… 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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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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… 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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… events. Newspapers can reveal not only turning points in history and the speed of those turns but also the debates … can play an important role in research for a National History Day® (NHD) project. Created through a partnership …
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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 …