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Pbs: New Perspectives on the West

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....
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Pbs: The West Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

For Students 9th - 10th
From the critically acclaimed PBS series, "The West," this site provides a brief biography of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, a leader of the "Great Exodus" which brought thousands of African Americans west from the post-Reconstruction South.
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Pbs the West: Exodusters

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a description of the Exodusters and their impact on the American West through their immigration.