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Digital History Reader: Which Side Are You On? The Flint Sit Down Strike
The first conflict between a corporation and labor union materialized in Flint, Michigan in the 1930's. Identify the tensions between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers during this time through Context, articles, images,...
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Digital History Reader: Unthinking Decision: Slavery in Virginia
Why did slavery evolve in Virginia? Examine this module to understand the context of the times, review resources identifying racial attitudes, economy, and public safety, consider thought-provoking questions, and follow up with further...
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Digital History Reader: Industrialization's Discontents: Great Strike of 1877
With its beginnings along the railroad tracks in Maryland and West Virginia, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first national strike in response to poor wages and poor conditions. Understand the impact of this strike on the...
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Digital History Reader: Did World War Ii Advance Minorities, Women, and Poor?
A unit probing into the progressive development of women, minorities, and the poor as a result of World War II. Pore over documents and images, circumstances, probing questions to understand what might have caused the societal...
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Digital History Reader: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Leader?
A collection of primary and secondary resources provide insight into Jackie Robinson's signing with the Dodgers. What did this mean in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement? Explore the details behind the accomplishment through the...
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Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
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Digital History Reader: How Will Historians Treat Richard Nixon?
Through the context of history, a collection of speeches, assignments, and additional resources students will use this learning module to determine whether Richard Nixon helped or hurt the United States during his presidency despite his...
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Digital History Reader: Can Humans Control the Natural World?
The course of industrialization and migration of society forced a shift within the natural world. Through context, writing assignments, reports, articles, visual materials, and bibliographical resources this unit dives into the question,...
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Digital History Reader: Should Women Vote? The Politics of Suffrage
Meet the prominent people engaged in fighting for woman's right to vote throughout Europe around the turn of the century. This unit provides circumstances leading to this fight, documents supporting the right, suggested writing...
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Digital History Reader: The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe
Questions about democratic institutions arose in Europe as the watched the economic crisis in the United States. The conditions in Europe during the Depression era, several photos, animations, and reports, suggested assignments, and...
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Digital History Reader: Demographic Catastrophe: Native Population
When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World he and his entourage brought with them not only the views of Europeans, but also diseases of Europeans. This was catastrophic to the natives in the Caribbean Islands and Meso-America as...
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Digital History Reader: u.s. History: A Revolution for Whom?
A module that addresses what changes in America came about as a result of the Revolutionary War. Who was impacted? How? Did it improve life in the new nation? Dive into the details of the changes through a collection of articles and...