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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teach the history of Civil Rights using this comprehensive learning module. Trace the movement from the 14th Amendment to modern times. The focus is on African American rights but also touches on women and disabled American's rights....
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Online Course
Yale University

Yale University: Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Political Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Introductory university-level course in Western political thought and thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Access the full course, in twenty four lectures, in either audio or video formats....
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Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from Democracy in America, a book by Alexis de Tocqueville published in 1898.
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Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Notes on Tocqueville

For Students 9th - 10th
These notes prepared by a university instructor for a course on American society summarize Tocqueville's views of equality, despotism, and the problems of individualism in a democracy.