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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Divisions: Black & White

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: History/social Studies: Adapting and Modifying Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This interactive demonstrates how a piece of primary source text can be adapted or modified for readers at different levels of proficiency in order to ensure their understanding.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Only Yesterday Year by Year

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and evaluating them. It includes a list of questions to ask to determine the value of the sources under consideration.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set allows you to explore the crisis of the Great Depression, as well as the dramatic developments of the New Deal, through photographs, speeches, letters, and oral histories. Includes a teaching guide.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Homestead Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the Homestead Strike.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Golden Age of Broadway

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, recordings, and photographs to tell the story of the "golden age" of Broadway.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Pop Art in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the history of pop art.
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Other

University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of primary resources from broadcasters, museums, libraries, and other content repositories, constituting a scholarly collection of primary sources that document aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: The Annals of Congress: 1789 1824

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Library of Congress presents primary documents from the 1st session of Congress to the 18th.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Perestroika

For Students 9th - 10th
In these revelations from Russian archives, perestroika is explained. Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling the totalitarian state. Also contains...
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Library of Congress

Loc: France in America

For Students 9th - 10th
A bilingual overview about the French colonization of the New World. Primary source documents are provided on this Library of Congress site.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1763

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents, including text and art, provides a look at the diversity and identity of the people in the New England colonies.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit documents the critical role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to turn Germany into a totalitarian state driven to annihilate its enemies. Includes a gallery of primary source documents and artifacts, such as posters, books,...
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Industry and Isms (1815 1850)

For Students 9th - 10th
As the conservatives were establishing Conservativism, liberals were finding Liberalism, nationalists were creating Nationalism, and socialists were developing Socialism with their own ideas for a new order to establish on a continent...
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George Washington University

Nsa: The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies, and Audiotapes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an extensive history of the 1971 Pentagon Papers case. Features include transcripts of President Nixon's tapes, White House phone conversations, memoirs, and other primary resources.
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Other

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Strangers in the Land of Strangers

For Students 9th - 10th
Uses primary source documents and images to trace the evolving concept of what it means to be American, from the Revolution through the civil rights era.
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Other

United States Naval Academy: Papacy and Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive summary details the history of the strained relationship between the kings and popes during the time period of 955-1356. Their fight for dominance is outlined by date with primary source documents, pictures, artwork,...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Enslaved and the Civil War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
National Humanities Center lesson on how enslaved African Americans in the South undermined the Southern cause during the Civil War. Lesson contents includes primary sources material, strategies for text analysis, vocabulary, and...
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University of North Carolina

Unc University Libraries: Digital Collections: Evolution Controversy: Nc: 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital repository of information and documentation of a controversy in 1920s North Carolina over the teaching of evolution. Includes a timeline of events, access to primary sources addressing both sides of the debate, and biographies of...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980 2000: A New World Order

For Students 9th - 10th
Page featuring information on a changing order both at home and abroad during the 1980s. Several links to primary source material, glossary and questions for student discussion.
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Imperial War Museums

Imperial War Museum: 16 Amazing Photos From the Battle of Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers 16 primary source photos from the Battle of Britain including brief descriptions.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Douglass Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this primary source pamphlet written by Jane Addams, who pushed for a woman's right to vote during the Progressive Era.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...

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