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Pbs: Atomic Bomb
Extensive treatment of PBS movie "Race for the Superbomb". Includes timeline, maps, special features, and teacher's guide. Extensive links to people and events.
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Pbs American Experience: Edison's Miracle of Light
This site explores the various challenges Edison faced upon attempting to produce electric power. It contains a historical essay, a complete list of Edison's patents, information on the AC and DC currents, recordings produced by the...
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Pbs: America 1900: The China Market
Read this brief excerpt of a Cornell historian regarding the importance of the Chinese market for American textiles in 1900.
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Pbs Teachers: Transcontinental Railroad
Explore the mechanics of railroad trains. Investigate boom towns and explore the life and challenges of sheriffs in these frontier settlements.
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American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.
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Pbs: American Experience: Technology Timeline 1750 1990
Did you ever wonder who invented something, and when it was invented? Go to this interactive timeline that highlights inventors/inventions from 1750-1990. Click on the topic to read a brief paragraph about that invention.
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Pbs: American Experience: Freedom Riders: People: Ralph Abernathy
Biographical snapshot of Ralph Abernathy, key civil rights leader of the 1960s.
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Pbs: American Experience: Freedom Riders: Stokely Carmichael
Biographical snapshot of Stokely Carmichael makes mentionof his participation in the freedom rides as well as his associaiton with the black power movement.
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Pbs: American Experience: Eugene "Bull" Connor
Brief biographical details on Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, AL in 1961. He was an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK known for enforcing racial segregation and denying civil rights to...
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Pbs: American Experience: Eisenhower Foreign Affairs
This PBS American Experience site summarizes the foreign policies set in place and carried out by the Eisenhower Administration.
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Pbs: American Experience: Mass Exodus From the Plains
This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.
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Pbs: American Experience: Freedom Riders: James Farmer
Biographical snapshot of James Farmer, who, in the early 1960s, was responsible for initiating the freedom rides to protest racial inequality in America. .