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Pbs: American Experience: Truman: Foreign Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a great overview of the early Cold War under President Truman. Describes relations with the Soviet Union, the atomic bomb, actions in western Europe, and the Korean War. A great piece that gives the reader a fantastic...
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Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Preserving Antique Books

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides this antiques Road Show article that provides advise about collecting rare books.
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Pbs Antiques Roadshow: African American

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS gives advise on finding and collecting African American collectables.
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Pbs: Antiques Roadshow: Ancient Beauties: Collecting Cameos

For Students 9th - 10th
Advise on collecting cameos and on determining their origin, value, and subject matter.
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Pbs: America and the Holocaust: Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...
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Pbs American Experience: Chicago: Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident

For Students 9th - 10th
From PBS' American Experience's series on Chicago, this article describes what led up to the Haymarket Square riot in May 1886. It details who was involved, what happened on May 4, 1886, and rigged jury who decided the fate of men...
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Pbs: American Experience: Richard M. Nixon: Foreign Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the foreign policy of the Nixon administration with a focus on China, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the U.S.S.R., and Vietnam.
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Pbs: Recovering the Material World of the Early Christians

For Students 9th - 10th
A scholarly article in which the author discusses the recent archaeological discoveries that have allowed us to construct a picture of the world of the early Christians. These findings include ancient manuscripts, ancient inscriptions...
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Pbs: The Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
This reflective analysis of Hurricane Katrina probes the lessons learned from this natural disaster. Topics addressed include preparedness, communication and leadership. The site includes video footage of the hurricane.
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Pbs Frontline: Sacred Ground: The Struggle to Design the Freedom Tower

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion website for an episode of FRONTLINE that investigates plans for developing the site of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center illustrates the design through pictures, video, and interactive models. Includes...
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Frontline: The Old Man and the Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the Gettridge Clan, Frontline looks into the impact Hurricane Katrina brought and how the family members have survived.
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Frontline: Inside the Meltdown

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating report complete with interviews of those closest to the matter, videos, etc. regarding the 2008-2009 economic crisis is provided by Frontline.
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Pbs Frontline: Growing Up Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and analysis on the practices and habits of children and teens who live their lives online. Focus is on teen culture in the digital age and on how online media have intensified fears of the dangerous dimensions of adolescence.
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Pbs: Frontline: The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains links to many interviews with Jesse Jackson. There are also links to a list of important events in his life, links to his religious views, and his social impact.
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Pbs Frontline: Hunting Bin Laden

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides information on Bin Laden -- his life story and his terrorist organization. Site also relates the trail of warnings that led to 911. Student can play a video of an early interview with Bin Laden.
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Pbs: Plague War: Fa Qs

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides an in-depth overview of both biological and chemical warfare in a FAQ format.
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Pbs: Frontline: The Gulf War

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS Online and the TV show "Frontline" present information on the Persian Gulf War, a timeline, various maps, personal testimonies, and other resources.
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Pbs Inside the Teenage Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
"What's going on in there?" Science may help to explain the mysteries of the teen years. Take a look at what the experts have to say, review recent research, and check out an interactive illustration of the brain.
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Pbs Frontline: Obama's War

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed report of the war in Afghanistan put together in 2009. Insight into the approach and progress of President Obama's administration. Interviews with top officials, map, chronology are provided.
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Pbs: Frontline: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the wide-ranging impact that living digitally is having on people's lives every day, and the far-reaching implications this has for society, relationships, how war is waged, our health, education, and what the future holds....
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Pbs Teachers:cyber War

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the extent to which the critical infrastructure of the U.S., including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense and the Internet, is vulnerable to cyber attack.
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Pbs Frontline: Diet Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the social, cultural and dietary factors that have led to an increasingly obese American public. Examine how the medical and diet industries have responded to consumers' desire to lose weight, and evaluate the myriad of diets...
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Pbs Frontline:the Insurgency

For Students 9th - 10th
From PBS Frontline,"an investigation into the people who are fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq." Included are a chart of insurgent attacks, a map of religious groups, previous PBS reports on the war, interviews, a...
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Pbs Frontline: The Columbian Cartels

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes some of the world's most well-known cartels, the Columbian drug cartels.