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Amnesty International: Human Rights in Republic of Cyprus

For Students 9th - 10th
The international organization, Amnesty International, is the watchdog for universal human rights. Here are the reports on Cyprus for the last three years. They provide information on missing persons, racist violence, violence against...
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Lesson Plan on Letter From Birmingham Jail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive six-part lesson plan that encourages students to study the concept of non-violence as it was practiced during the confrontation that took place in Birmingham in 1963. This led to the famous letter written by Dr. King in...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Research Paper: Topic Choice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on choosing a topic and narrowing or expanding the focus to fit the requirements for a research paper. It provides tips like clustering, using a Venn Diagram, Google Scholar, etc. to find and narrow the topic. It...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Voice of the Carpet Bagger

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress provides the full text to The Voice of the Carpet Bagger, a 48 page pamphlet defending Reconstruction and protesting lynching and violence against blacks. The pamphlet was originally published in 1901.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Cold War in Developing Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
In Europe, there was less violence in the half century following World War II then in almost any previous period of modern European history. Yet outside of Europe and North America, violent conflict became commonplace. In the decades...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger site examining the Chinese Experience in the United States in the 19th century. Discover the role the official support by the labor movement played in the discrimination, and in the case of the Rock...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Girodet Romantic Rebel

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully detailed exhibition site, developed by the Art Institute of Chicago, devoted to this gifted French painter, whose work is often viewed in opposition to the prevailing neoclassical style of his time. With a career that...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: John Hume and David Trimble Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographies of John Hume and David Trimble, winners of the Nobel prize for Peace for their work bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict and violence. Includes profiles, video interviews, and a photo gallery.
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?Unraveling the Myths? In Animal Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
Very interesting critical essay about Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. It argues that the book is designed to counter many of the myths associated with traditional westerns. Ample support from the text and outside sources are...
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PBS

Pbs: America and the Holocaust: Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...
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PBS

Pbs: The American Novel

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and analysis on the central concerns, characteristics, and distinguishing features of American literature, presented in timeline format. With synopses of classic works, biographical sketches, overviews of literary movements,...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Crisis in Sudan

For Students 9th - 10th
The continuing crisis in Sudan is reviewed in both text and a vividly graphic audio video clip.[6:43] The causes and effects, growing population, shortage of food, and violence are discussed. A gripping visual meant for upper middle and...
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New America Foundation: The Battle for Pakistan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses counter-terrorism and the conflict in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, utilizing a number of primary source documents by a variety of authors to emphasize further the violence taking place in the country....
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Invisible Children

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage of Invisible Children, an organization whose mission is to end violence and exploitation facing our world's most isolated and vulnerable communities in central Africa.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Ares

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Ares, the Olympian god of war and defense and figure behind violence. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles, pictures, myths, and his places of...
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NBC

Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1963: Fury

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of archival video clips covering the racial unrest and violence in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, including the church bombing where four young black girls were killed. Also includes clips on the murder of NAACP leader Medgar...

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