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The University of Southern Mississippi: Aaec Editorial Cartoons Digital Collect

For Students 9th - 10th
The Editorial Cartoon Digital Collection contains examples of the work of member artists of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). Created primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, the cartoons reflect changes in American...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Lowell

For Students 9th - 10th
An intimate look into the poetry of Robert Lowell, with a short biography and links to critical essays on thirteen of his poems. Click on the "Online Poems" link to read the full text of the highlighted poems.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Muhammad Ali: Boxer and Civil Rights Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
By watching a short video and engaging in two primary source activities, students will examine the career of tenacious champion Muhammad Ali and learn about his remarkable athletic achievements.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: 1968: A Time of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [2:52] of President Lyndon Johnson's speech concerning the Vietnam War and his not seeking re-election.
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures:brothers From Vietnam, the Story of the Lais and the Bessais

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bessai family of Edmonton sponsored a Vietnamese family in 1979 after the Vietnam War ended, and helped them to settle into a new life in Canada. Their families became close friends. This site describes their story and gives...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Walter Cronkite on Npr

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Maya Lin's Memorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about Maya Lin, and how it came to be that she desigend the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Mobile National Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th
The U. S. National Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama is the resting place of more than 800 Union soldiers who died in the Mobile area toward the end of the Civil War. Military dead from other conflicts, through the Vietnam War, are also buried...
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New York Times

New York Times: A Look at Those Who Died

For Students 9th - 10th
Explores the first 1000 deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. Features information about the soldiers including where they are from and what branch of the service they were in. This is the highest amount of U.S. military deaths since the...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

For Students 9th - 10th
A monumental tube of lipstick sprouting from a military vehicle appeared, uninvited, on the campus of Yale University amidst the 1969 student protests against the Vietnam War. Claes Oldenburg made this sculpture and it served as a stage...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The World Goes Pop

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pop movement spanned the globe at a time when countries were reeling not only from the mass production of cultural and consumer objects, but also from the fallout from WWII, conflicts like the Vietnam War, and the rise of Communism....
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: The Weather Underground

For Students 9th - 10th
Read background about the Weathermen, a radical group in the 1960s which protested the Vietnam War and racism with often violent acts. This introduction is to a video shown on PBS in 2003. Find interviews with members of the Weather...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
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Digital History

Digital History: Into the Quagmire

For Students 9th - 10th
Vietnam is one of the longest wars fought, spanning multiple decades and U.S. presidencies. In this article, students will learn about France's defeat at and withdrawal after Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Accords, and the policies of the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Teaching Kids in Vietnam to Avoid a Deadly, Everyday Legacy of War

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with "Teaching Kids in Vietnam to Avoid a Deadly, Everyday Legacy of War" by Michael Sullivan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Years of Withdrawal

For Students 5th - 8th
Winding down the war in Vietnam took several years. Read about Richard Nixon's plans for Vietnamization and "peace with honor." Find out how other events in Vietnam pushed the antiwar movement to even more demonstrations.
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Digital History

Digital History: John Kennedy and Vietnam

For Students 9th - 10th
Site covers the policy that Kennedy had toward Vietnam and his actions that involved the United States in the war.
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AllRefer

All Refer Reference: Vietnam: Escalation of the War

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes decisions by the Johnson administration to escalate US involvement in Vietnam. Examines increased troop levels and increased military aid to South Vietnam.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Vietnam From 1945 to Postwar

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1954, a peace conference in Geneva temporarily divided Vietnam in two: a pro-communist North and an anti-communist South. The political factions in North and South Vietnam -- supported by their communist and capitalist allies in the...
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Council of Foreign Relations

Vietnamization: Can It Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
A 1970 essay on the prospects of Vietnamization. In this primary source commentary, Robert H. Johnson gives his opinion on whether or not the strategy of Vietnamization is a viable option.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The War in Vietnam

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the war in Vietnam during the Johnson administration, touching on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and protest of the American public.
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Nashville Public Library Digital Collection: Veterans History Project Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of oral history interviews and artifacts from veterans from Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County, Tennessee. Most of the material and interviews come from World War II veterans, but a few are from later wars, including...
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Vassar College

Vassar: Excerpts From Speech Given by l.b.johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read excerpts from a 1965 speech at John Hopkins University offering Johnson's justification of the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

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