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Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Challenges and Prospects for African Women's Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site that describes African women moving away form the traditional roles in society and shaping the political and social culture in all areas of Africa.
Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Evangelicalism as a Social Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource in which the author helps us understand Evangelicalism as a religious movement as well as a social movement that ultimately helped transfom American society. Links to online resources.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Living the Revolution: 1789 1820: Equality

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents on equality provides a look into various perspectives surrounding the discussion on rights for slaves, African Americans, women and equality in general between 1789-1920. Includes questions for discussion,...
Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extensive multi-instructional activity teaching unit focuses on the Chinese immigrant experience in the late 19th century.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Pierre Trudeau

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a detailed biography of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and what he accomplished throughout his life.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
Handout
Other

New American Nation: Internationalism and Interwar Isolationism

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay by two foreign policy scholars gives background to the concept that the United States did not really become isolationist after World War I.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Civil Liberties in War

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides extensive information for students and teachers examining the issue of civil liberty during wartime and in the fight against terrorism in the U.S. following September 11. Resources include news articles, legal...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: A New Generation

For Students 11th - 12th
Looks at the new morality that emerged in the 1920s. It changed the role of women and the perception of African Americans, the latter facilitated by the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on the music and dance of the Jazz Age. Also...
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Antebellum Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Nineteenth century United States saw the creation of reform movements: temperance, abolition, school and prison reform, as well as others. This unit traces the emergence of reform movements instigated by the Second Great Awakening and...
Primary
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Prairie Diaries

For Students 6th - 8th
This site from NPR is an excellent example of personal narratives from the heartland. Read and listen to excerpts from Kansans about a day in their life. What were they doing, what were they thinking, what was going on in their lives.
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Nkrumah

For Students 9th - 10th
Kwame Nkrumah, a former leader in Ghana, writes his concept of a freedom in Africa following years of European rule on the continent.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: Henry David Thoreau

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: John C. Calhoun

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of primary resources on Nationalism, John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures, and U.S. Senate, March 4, 1850. Thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.
Website
Curated OER

Cbc.ca: Years of Hope & Anger Nationalist Passions

For Students 6th - 8th
An overview of Canada in the 1960's, a 100th birthday for Canada, new flag debate, Quebec nationalism and separatists, and the rise of Trudeaumania.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Elias Boudinot

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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US National Archives

Nara: A New Deal for the Arts: Rediscovering America

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the artistic nationalism that took place during the Great Depression, this website from the National Archives and Records Administration focuses on many American scenes. Lots of focus on small-town life and various regions.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (Educator's Guide)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A 48-page guide designed for teachers who are using "Becoming American," a PBS series on Chinese immigration to the United States in their classrooms. The guide examines the historical events and significance of Chinese migration to...
Website
Other

Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837

For Students 9th - 10th
This advanced discussion will provide insight to the class conflicts percolating through Upper Canada prior to the Rebellions of 1837. These class conflicts were just not based on socio-economic factors, often nationalism,...
PPT
Tom Richey

Tom richey.net: The Trials of the Jeffersonians [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents key ideas for examining the impact of westward expansion on concepts of nationalism and democracy. Covers the Louisiana Purchase, conflict with native peoples, the War of 1812, and other events.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Early National Arts and Cultural Independence

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the national identity developed in the early 19th century in art and literature. See how both landscape paintings and literature emphasized wilderness themes.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The American Spirit: Defending and Building Our Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
Given background information about selected historical figures, students will be able to analyze the importance and contributions of women and people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to the national identity and the...

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