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PBS

Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Designed to support a study of women's suffrage in the United States, a primary source document set from the Library of Congress includes images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, political cartoon, and audio recordings...
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PBS

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Women's Right to Vote (1920) and Resource Materials

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
A facsimile of the 19th Amendment, a transcript of the amendment, a photograph of a suffragist march, and a background information sheet that details the struggle to get the amendment passed comprise a packet of resource materials...
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Indiana University

The Center on Congress: Congressional Moments: Primary Sources Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View a wide variety of primary source materials that relate to these six topics: Child Labor, Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights, National Park Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, and The Marshall Plan. Transcripts are available for...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Primary Sources by State

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive map to search for extensive collections of primary sources for each of the United States.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...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

History Hit: Twentieth Century World War Two

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers primary sources from World War Two including pictures and articles.
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Northwestern University

Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Villainizing Japanese Americans During the Wwii Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how Japanese Americans were impacted by anti-Chinese exclusion policies of the 1800s, and why it escalated during World War II. As a result, Americans...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Anti Filipino Sentiment of the Early 1900s

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how and why Filipino Americans faced racial prejudice and discrimination during the early 1900s. This anti-Asian racism is connected to U.S....
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1870 1912: Visions of the West

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 questions....
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Sources: Primary Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses conducting primary research for a research topic.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-part feature on African American history offers an in-depth look at the events of the 1960's civil rights movement. Discusses voting rights, laws, military segregation, freedom rides, sit-ins and the NAACP. Includes historic...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Walk on the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson helps students explore primary sources, including photographs and audio and video recordings, in order to learn about the Apollo crew and spacecraft, the history of the space race, and the incredible technological...
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US National Archives

National Archives: Congress Creates the Bill of Rights I

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the first PDF in a four-part series on the Bill of Rights. This part focuses on the history and chronology of the passage of the Bill of Rights. Vivid pictures, primary source documents, and a timeline are provided. [PDF]
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US National Archives

National Archives: Congress Creates the Bill of Rights Iia

For Students 9th - 10th
Ths is the second PDF is in the series Congress Creates the Bill of Rights. This part focuses on the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists on questions surrounding passage of the Bill of Rights. Short biographies, pictures,...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Timeline of Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive timeline tracks the Holocaust from it's roots to the Nuremberg Trials. This interactive timeline is broken down into 5 groups based on dates. Each grouping contains a short summary and multiple primary sources such as...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: The Art of African Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
The Art of African Exploration is a catalog of primary sources that documents the impressions of Europeans who traveled to Africa in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century to explore and conquer. View the work of expedition artists...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Society: Timeline: World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
One stop shop for everything you need to know about WWII. This interactive timeline features all the major events leading to war, major battles and turning points, rulers during the war, and the consequences of this war. Vibrant...
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Other

Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association: Washington's "First 100 Days"

For Students 9th - 10th
A "President's First 100 Days" has become a barometer by which to measure the success of the rest of his term. George Washington had the added weight of launching our new nation in his first 100 days. Use this interactive timeline to see...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School

For Students 9th - 10th
When state and local authorities fail to uphold the Federal Court orders for integration at Central High School, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce those orders. Using an array of photos and primary source...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Museum of the Great Patriotic War

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibition showcases primary source documents and artifacts from World War I on display in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial history of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945 includes stories, quotes, and primary source documents.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: D Day

For Students 9th - 10th
The planning of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy is told through a series of revealing photographs and primary source documents.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: D Day and the Normandy Invasion

For Students 9th - 10th
Using photos and primary source documents this visual essay explores D-Day (Operation Overlord), the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.

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