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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Ohio State University

Ehistory: Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s: Prohibition Index

For Students 9th - 10th
This index included in the larger site on Prohibition gives links to political cartoons, photographs, and documents, which include essays, parts of speeches, and commission reports. Good primary sources.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: The Gulf Oil Disaster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-media lesson plan includes a video, PowerPoint, and handouts from which students explore the issues raised by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and interpret political cartoons and the cartoonist's message.
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New Deal Network

New Deal Network: The Great Depression: 1930s and the Roosevelt Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Deal Network is devoted to students and teachers researching the Great Depression and the New Deal. Features include an extensive database of photographs, political cartoons, texts and a New Deal Network Classroom that has lesson...
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Haymarket Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
"Attention Workingmen! Mass Meeting Tonight, at 7:30." This pamphlet was distributed on May 4, 1886. Chicago had been simmering with labor disputes which culminated in a riot at Haymarket Square where eight officers were killed. Use this...
PPT
Virginia History Series

Virginia History Series: Virginia State History Wwii Era (1940 1948) [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
WWII awakened a massive development in Virginia from manufacturing to naval bases. Follow the course of the war through pictures, maps, charts and political cartoons. Visualize life in America and abroad during the war.
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New York Times

New York Times: On This Day: Credit Moibiler Scandal

For Students 9th - 10th
See a political cartoon of Thomas Nast decrying the Credit Mobilier scandal, and read a concise account of what it was, who was involved, and why it was such a scandal.
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US National Archives

National Archives: Prohibition and Its Consequences

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Was prohibition necessary to protect family values or was it an over-reach by the government? Learners will debate this question while analyzing documents from this era. Documents include political cartoon, photos, letters from citizens,...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Read Like a Historian: Civil War Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the Civil War and Reconstruction unit, young scholars engage in contentious historiographic debates about the period: Was Lincoln a racist? Was Reconstruction a success or failure? Was John Brown a...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: American Imperialism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The American Imperialism Unit covers the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The lessons approach historical inquiry from different angles. One asks young scholars to consider...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Chinese Immigration, Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students reading primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to explore the social and economic factors that fueled the wave of...
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NBC

Nbc News: Alito Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
January, 2006 report chronicling the swearing in of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Along with this report is a video report, link to political cartoons, photographic slideshow, and other resources.
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Other

New York Historical Society: Fdr's First Hundred Days

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit allows us to see the first hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's term as president. Includes photos and political cartoons.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: The Iran Nuclear Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module uses mult-media resources to help students understand the role of the U.S. in the debate about the Iran nuclear deal and examine how political cartoons are used to express opinion.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Globalization and the Economic Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One-day instructional activity provides students an opportunity to explore a series of political cartoons and consider the relationship between globalization and the economic crisis. Note: Video content may not load in archived version.
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Other

Gettysburg College: Civil War Era Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A special collection of political cartoons, maps, letters, photographs, artifacts, etc. all relating to the Civil War Era.
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Other

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent resources for teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases. Strategies include case study, moot court activity, role play, continuum, community resources, evaluating websites, and political cartoon analysis.
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US National Archives

National Archives: The Legislative Process

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will follow the legislative process for how a bill becomes a law by analyzing primary source documents. Included are worksheets that include a chart to be filled out in small groups, worksheets, materials, and an answer key....
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Vassar College

Vassar College: 1896: Mary E. Lease

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
1896, A Website of Political Cartoons is an excellent site that includes a detailed biography and historical accounts from that time. Provides links to related subjects.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Cuba and the United States: A New Chapter

For Students 9th - 10th
Current and relevant learning resource from Brown University in which students explore the changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, interpret political cartoons and monitor news media coverage of U.S.-Cuba relations over time....
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss story? Web English Teacher may be offering you resources to teach it right here! Also contains links to biographical information.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Herblock's Gift

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Herb Block's Editorial Cartoons which were gifted to the Library of Congress. The archive includes records, clippings, photographs and various articles as well as 14,000 original drawings.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Germany's Sculptor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hitler used art and images as propaganda during WWII. Students will use these primary sources to recognize the manipulation used by the Nazi regime. They will learn how to analyze and recognize the propaganda techniques used by...

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