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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Africans I, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Four accounts of the complex power relationships between slaves and slave holders within English colonies in Barbados, Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well as documents about slave revolts and anti-slavery agitation.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity: Volume Ii 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Uses primary resources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, audio, and video material-to explore how African Americans created group and individual identities in the late-nineteenth century. Topics include freedom,...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1789 1820: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards historical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity [Pdf]

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...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

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Elias Boudinot

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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...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

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: The Age

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Only Yesterday Year by Year

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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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Radio

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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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: City & Town

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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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Native & Foreign

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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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: The Populist Party Platform, 1892

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1892 platform of the Populist Party that argued for significant changes to improve the economic condition of farmers and industrial workers. Included are discussion questions and a link to the exact wording of the platform.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: "The Private," the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Hamlin Garland's short story, "The Return of a Private", that describes the post-Civil War conflicts for western farmers with nature and with other settlers.