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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.
Website
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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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.
Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Tyler Anbinder, "Moving Beyond Rags to Riches: Lost Stories"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on a new website, "Moving Beyond 'Rags to Riches': Using Digital History to Uncover the Lost Stories of New York's Irish Famine Immigrants," which provides students and scholars with easy access to thousands of...
Lesson Plan
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...