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American Historical Association: Angie Debo

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of Angie Debo, an American historian who worked to help Native Americans gain civil rights.
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Center for Social Media: Case Study: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the work of American historian Angie Debo, who worked to help Native Americans preserve their civil rights.
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Digital History: American Ethnic Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Educated white men weren't the only ones contributing to a truly American literature. Read about the literature written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Irish Americans. All added to the melting pot of...
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The Gigantic Question: Irving's History of New York

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This extensive website, developed by Professor Edward J. Gallager and his students at Lehigh University, provides background, transcription, notes, and extensive analysis of Washington Irving's "History of New York." Provides an in-depth...
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum: North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World

For Students 9th - 10th
Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Toltec

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers great information on the Toltecs, a Pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Kelly Lyons, "The Pledge of Allegiance and the Perils of Quiet Nativism"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and what Lyon's calls the perils of quiet nativism, including students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Open Stax: Colonial Societies 1500 1700: Spanish Exploration & Colonial Society

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the establishment of Spanish settlements in America, the differences between them, and the conflicts the Spanish had with other European interests and with the native peoples.

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