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The Atlantic Monthly Group

The Atlantic: The Never Ending Wrong

For Students 9th - 10th
The famous author, Katherine Anne Porter, wrote an article in the July, 1977, The Atlantic magazine, recounting her memory of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial fifty years before, and commenting on the view of Anarchism and Communism in the...
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In Focus: World War Ii: Pearl Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
From The Atlantic series about World War II photographs, this section has forty-five photographs with captions covering all aspects of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Several of the photographs are from film recovered from captured Japanese...
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In Focus: World War Ii: Battle of Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
See fantastic photographs of the aerial battles, air attacks, and destruction caused by the German war planes in London and other locations in England during the Battle of Britain in 1940. The photos all have captions for that put the...
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In Focus: World War Ii: Intermnent of Japanese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Haunting photographs of Japanese-Americans as they were rounded up and placed in internment camps in the western United States not long after Pearl Harbor. The photographs all have captions which add context to the pictures as well as...
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In Focus: World War Ii: The American Home Front in Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Color photographs of men and women working in factories building planes and readying materiel for use in World War II. Captions explain the context of the photographs and the sources.
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In Focus: World War Ii: North African Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Photograhs of the British, Australian, and American forces fighting against the Germans and Italians in the North African Campaign in an attempt to force the Axis troops from North Africa. Captions accompany each picture to add context...
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In Focus: World War Ii in Photos: A Retrospective in 20 Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
See an extensive collection of photographs covering World War II compiled into twenty sections covering photos from before the war, many of the campaigns, the American homefront, the Holocaust, and after the war. Each photo has a caption...
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In Focus: World War Ii: The Allied Invasion of Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs of Allied Forces moving north into Italy in 1943, incredible pictures of D-Day and the forces landing in Normandy, and the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Each photograph has a caption which gives it context and a source.
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Atlantic Online: Poetry: "Man Listening to Disc" by Billy Collins

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Billy Collins's poem, "Man Listening to Disc" and a link to the audio of Collins reading his poem.
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The Atlantic Monthly Group

The Atlantic: Vanzetti's Last Statement: A Record by w.g. Thompson

For Students 9th - 10th
From the February 1928, edition of The Atlantic magazine, the attorney for Bartolmeo Vanzetti recounts the last detailed conversation he had with his client on the day he and Sacco were executed.
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The Atlantic Monthly Group

Atlantic Wire: Newly Released Secret Tapes

For Students 9th - 10th
Newspaper article confirms that LBJ knew about Nixon's involvement in stalling the Vietnam peace talks and didn't bother to report it. Though the story has been around before, the new tapes describe how President Johnson knew all about...