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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Secession of the Southern States

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the secession of southern states from the United States prior to the Civil War.
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People's Century: Guerrilla Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
Col. David Hackworth, in an interview on PBS, relives the mindset of the leaders during the Vietnam effort. His accounts reference how the war of attrition affected the mentality of both those serving the US and those at home.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Women in the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources that explore women in the Civil War.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: World War I: America Heads to War

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore America's entry into World War I.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: World War Ii: Women on the Home Front

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore women's work on the home front during World War II.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: African American Soldiers in World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the experiences of African American Soldiers in World War I.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Japanese American Internment in World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Pbs: American Experience: Fly Girls a Wasp Among Eagles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a chapter from the book by Ann Baumgartner Carl, "A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II," detailing her experiences as part of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots.
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Pbs: American Experience: Primary Resources: Pearl Harbor Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript of the infamous speech delivered by Franklin Roosevelt asking Congress to declare war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Pbs: American Experience: Poster Art of World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
In this American Experience site about Woodrow Wilson and his tenure as president, find a gallery of posters published to encourage the public's support for entry into World War I. The posters were produced as part of the Committee on...
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Battle of Gettysburg

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women.
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Pbs Online News Hour: Rice on Iraq, War and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of an interview of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in September of 2002, discussing President George W. Bush's ideas about moving the US into war against Iraq.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The War of 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources that explore the War of 1812.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Northern Draft Riots During the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary sources explore northern draft riots that occurred during the Civil War.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: American Imperialism: Spanish American War

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources that explores the Spanish-American War.
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Pbs News Hour: Transfer of Power in Iraq

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS' take on the transfer of power in Iraq on June 28th, 2004. You will be able to watch the segment, listen to the segment, and read the transcript of this historic event and hear from many of the key figures.
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Pbs Learning Media: Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Battle of Saratoga and Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War.
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Pbs: American Experience: Truman Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a copy of a speech given in 1947 that describes US intent in stopping the spread of communism. It outlines threats to communist expansion into Greece and Turkey, and the US response to such a threat. This is a great primary...
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Pbs Nova: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese submarines in use near the end of World War II had the potential to inflict heavy damage on the United States. This transcript looks at these 'killer subs' and what we now know about them. Additional materials discuss the threat...
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The Great War: American Troops in the Trenches

For Students 9th - 10th
Read historian David Kennedy's assessment of the American troops' impact on the course of the end of World War I.
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Pbs: Daring to Resist

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to the PBS documentary telling of three female teens who resisted the Germans and the Holocaust.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Mexican Labor and Wwii: Bracero Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Bracero Program.

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