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Newberry Library: Caste and Politics in the Struggle for Mexican Independence
examines the social conditions in Mexico before and after independence from Spain and the impact of internal conflicts between people of different social castes.
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Newberry Library: Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915 to 1950
Primary source material with lesson and classroom activities in which students analyze the causes and effects of the African American Great Migration to Chicago between 1915 and 1950.
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The Newberry: Chicago Defined: Space and Place, Homes and Journeys
Learning module examines how writers and artists have portrayed the city of Chicago as well as the response to the city's changing population and character during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Primary sources and questions for...
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Newberry Library: Chicago Workers During the Long Gilded Age
Learning module in which students use primary source material to examine the plight of workers in Chicago during the 19th and 20th Centuries, their efforts to make changes to working conditions and public response to those efforts.
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Newberry: Commodities and the Transformation of the American Landscape
Learning resource uses primary source material to explore the ways in which commodities are extracted, produced, and exchanged and how those processes have shaped the physical and cultural landscape of North America.
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Newberry Library: Daily Life in Early Modern France
Primary source documents are used in the exploration of the written word asks how handwritten documents shaped life in the early modern period and what can they tell us about the experiences of early modern people.
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Newberry Library: Dissent and Democracy in Modern American History
Learning resource in which students examine primary source material for a look at the forms of dissent in U.S. history and the role dissent plays in a representative democracy. Questions for consideration are included.
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Newberry: Faith in the City: Religion and Urban Life in Chicago, 1870 1920
Learning module in which students examine primary source material for a look at religion, urban life and changes in religious practices in Chicago between 1870 and 1920.
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Newberry Library: Home Front: The Visual Culture of the Civil War North
Lesson using primary resources examines the ways in which images shaped the meaning of the war for people at home and the meaning of the home during wartime.
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Newberry Library: Imagining the American West in the Late Nineteenth Century
Learning modules with primary resources explores how the West has been imagined as both America's manifest destiny and a wild frontier and examines the ways American Indian art and literature challenge these popular narratives.
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Newberry Library: Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, 1865 1924
Learning module looks at the role immigrarion has played in forming American national identity and ideals and how have Americans understood and debated the social impact of immigration. Primary source documents and questions for...
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Newberry Library: Lincoln, the North, and the Question of Emancipation
This learning module explores Lincoln's arguments against slavery as well as public feelings and concerns about emancipation as expressed through art and literature of the day.
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Newberry Library: Literature of the American Civil War
Learning module uses primary resources to take a look at the literature published during the Civil War and examines how it helped make sense of the war and the profound changes brought about.
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Newberry Library: Living in British Colonial India, 1750 to 1850
Learning module from Newberry Library uses primary resources to explore British colonialism in India, examining why individual Britons went to India, what they expected to find there, and what experiences did they share.
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Newberry Library: Mapping Chicago and the Midwest, 1688 to 1906
Learning resource uses maps to tell the early history of Chicago and the Midwest and explores how nations use maps to secure control of a region.
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Newberry: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America
Learning module in which students learn how Twain's Huckleberry Finn engaged and challenged popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America and examine whether a text can be offensive yet worthwhile.
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Newberry Library: Marriage and Family in Shakespeare's England
Learning modules explores the concepts of marriage and family in Shakespeare's England, 16th-18th Centuries. Students examine Shakespeare's work and the work of others and gain a sense of familial roles, obligations and how family was...
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Newberry: Olaudah Equiano: Eighteenth Century Debate Over Africa Slave Trade
Learning module uses 18th Century literature as primary source material to examine the debate over slavery and the role Olaudah Equiano played in the conversation.
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Newberry Library: Other Americans and the American Revolution
Newberry Library presents a lesson on the American Revolution in which students explore through primary resources, who identified as American and to what extent did the American Revolution serve the interests of its inhabitants.
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Newberry Library: Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution
Primary source material and learning excercises for students to explore the social conditions that contributed to the Mexican Revolution and examine how the U.S. influenced Mexico as well as how artists and writers responded to the war.
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Shakespeare's Romans: Politics and Ethics in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus
Informative learning excercise using Shakespeare's Roman plays to analyze the impact of Classical Roman history on the people of Renaissance England.
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Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source material of Shakespeare in a lesson on how Renaissance writers and artists portrayed European exploration of America. Students read excerpts from works of Renaissance literature to...
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Newberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"
Newberry Library presents primary source materials from which students learn about the arguments made for abolition before the Civil War, how the appeals against slavery were framed, and what freedom would mean for the South and the...
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Newberry: Changing Notions of Identity in the Age of the French Revolution
Learning module from the Newberry Library uses primary resources to teach about the French Revolution, transition to a republic, citizenship and national identity in an age of revolution. Primary sources and questions for consideration...