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Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Sarah Josepha Hale

For Students 9th - 10th
Although few know her name today, Sarah Josepha Hale was one of the most influential women in nineteenth century America. She used her position as editor of Godey's Lady's Book to effect a wide range of social changes, including the...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: War and International Law: America's Foreign Policy: A Brief History

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the history of foreign policy in the United States from the nineteenth century through to the present. Identify what values and principles have helped its formation over the years. Includes discussion questions.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: Novela Historica Espanola

For Students 9th - 10th
This is divided in two parts: the historical novels of the Spanish romanticism period and novels published since the mid nineteenth century.
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Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Song for the Horse Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition about horses in Native American cultures takes a sweeping look at the ways in which Native peoples, past and present, regard horses and horsemanship. Learn how the horse transformed Native approaches to the hunt, warfare,...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Kids Work! History of Medicine

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief history of medicine told in five snapshots of time: ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the early modern period (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and modern times.
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Post Civil War America

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] "A variety of materials demonstrates the rise and fall of civil rights for African Americans during the latter half of the nineteenth century, including constitutional amendments, sharecropper...
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Mathilde Anneke, 1817 1884

For Students 9th - 10th
Mathilde Anneke was a remarkable woman. A feminist before the days of feminism, she worked tirelessly for the rights of women and of African Americans. She experienced firsthand the powerlessness of a nineteenth-century woman after her...
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BBC

Bbc History: British History: Empire: Symbiosis: Trade and the British Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Article examines the factors that drove forward the expansion of the British Empire during the nineteenth century and asks whether it was desire for trade or "thirst of conquest." Archived.
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My Learning

My Learning: Design a Carpet for an Arab Weaver's House

For Students 3rd - 8th
Design your own carpet using wood blocks, and recreate a scene from a nineteenth century painting.
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Pushmataha

For Students 9th - 10th
Pushmataha is perhaps the best-known Choctaw leader of the nineteenth century. He is most famous for negotiating treaties with the U.S. government that allied the Choctaws with the Americans against the British in the War of 1812 and for...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Yearning to Breathe Free: Muckrakers and Activism [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that leads learners through an examination of the role of muckrakers in the development of investigative journalism. Students work to identify...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: Industrial Revolution in America [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that looks at the technological advances of early nineteenth-century America and the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America.
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Wnet: Thirteen: Getting Started: Packing and Preparing for a New Life

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, "Frontier House," learn about how potential homesteaders prepared to move their families and their lives to homesteads in Montana in the late nineteenth century.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: How Labor Got Its Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they would say? The last days of summer? A family picnic? Shopping the Labor Day sales? The purpose of this activity is to broaden and deepen...
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Early European Exploration and Development

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronological timeline of early European exploration and development in Texas spanning from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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Usc: The Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit on Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian liberator and hero-figure of nineteenth-century liberal nationalism, and on the Risorgimento, the 1860 reunification of Italy.
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Richards Free Library: Sarah Josepha Hale 1788 1879

For Students 9th - 10th
Newport, New Hampshire pays homage to one of its own with this biography of Sarah Josepha Hale. Read about how Hale became a magazine editor, a novelist and poet, and one of the most determined and influential people in American society,...
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Binghamton University: Lincoln, Labor and Liberation

For Students 9th - 10th
The free labor ideology of the nineteenth century was grounded in the beliefs that Northern free labor was superior to Southern slave labor. It was this free labor ideology and not the republicanism of the Revolutionary War era that...
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Nez Perce Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
A site that follows the history of the Nez Perce, from the late nineteenth century to the present, using historical photographs of Chief Joseph, battlegrounds, and the Nez Perce people.
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University of Maryland

Howard County History Labs: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In order to use this source to assess students' historical thinking skills, students should understand the history of industrialization and the working conditions typical of late nineteenth-century factories. Students will analyze...
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Doing History/keeping the Past: Farmers and Ranchers of Colorado

For Students 4th - 8th
An essay on how farmers and ranchers lived and created communities in Colorado in the late nineteenth century. This was the period following the initial migrations of pioneers and homesteaders into the West.
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Bristol University: Toynbee's Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of lectures on the Industrial Revolution, written by one of the most famous economic historians of the nineteenth century.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Gilded Age: America Moves to the City

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the urbanization that took place at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Includes questions for students at end.

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