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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Transcendentalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the Transcendentalism period (1836-1860) in American Literature. It focuses on the beliefs and characteristics of transcendentalism and its leading authors: Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edmonia Lewis

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Edmonia Lewis in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
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eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the e-text in many digital formats of fifteen stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904 CE).
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Unit Plan
Other

University of South Carolina: Walt Whitman Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive site studies the life and work of Walt Whitman. Provides a detailed biography and an analysis of Whitman's literary contributions. Includes detailed information about the development of "Leaves of Grass" and photographs of...
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eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the text of Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.
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Handout
University of Chicago

Lost Egypt: Early Photos of Egyptian Monuments

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of photos taken in the nineteenth century of various ancient Egyptian temples and other religious sites. There is also a good article on the history of early photography in Egypt including a description of how nineteenth-century...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cole, the Oxbow

For Students 9th - 10th
Thomas Cole was best known for his landscape paintings which embodied the beauty and grandeur of the American wilderness during the first half of the nineteenth century. When viewed through the lens of nineteenth-century political...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cult of Domesticity: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this mid-nineteenth century short story that raises questions about the roles of women as wives and mothers. Discussion questions are included.
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Lesson Plan
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Nativism in 19th C. America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of nativism, and the...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: 19th Century "Isms"

For Students 9th - 10th
There are several politically driven "-isms" introduced and built on throughout the nineteenth century. Challenge studies with the help of this PowerPoint presentation to understand the details of each "-ism."
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Article
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museum

United States Indian Policy During the Late 19th Century: Change and Continuity

For Students 9th - 10th
By the 1890's, the status of Indian people seemed to validate Frederick Jackson Turner's claim that "the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history." Natives ceased to threaten the Republic...
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Handout
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: Literatura Espanola Del Siglo Xix

For Students 9th - 10th
This portal is a tribute to all those scholars of Spanish literature of the 19th century. It includes the Bulletin of the Spanish Literature Society of the nineteenth century, a directory of the most important figures in this field of...
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Article
Other

History Today: Native Americans and the Federal Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Andrew Boxer traces the origins of a historical issue still as controversial and relevant today as in past centuries. At the start of the twentieth century there were approximately 250,000 Native Americans in the USA - just 0.3 per cent...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Culture, Making of African American Identity: Vol. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter, an interview, and film clips that illustrate cultural expressions of African American identity in the late-nineteenth century. Culture is explored during the turn of the 20th century within this resource and is supported by...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Runaways, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Several accounts by slaves of running away from bondage, written in the nineteenth century and also recorded in the 1930s, as well as newspaper advertisements seeking information about fugitive slaves in the eighteenth century.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Enslaved Family, Making of African American Identity: Vol. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers two letters and a memoir from the mid-nineteenth century, and interviews from the early-twentieth century, about the importance and the roles of enslaved families.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Plantation Community, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Various retrospective oral accounts from the early-twentieth century and two narratives from the mid-nineteenth century that examine the work, interrelationships, dangers, and lives of slaves on southern plantations.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Nineteenth-century accounts and twentieth-century recollections by former slaves of the absence of and obstacles to education for African Americans. Links to narratives of freed and newly freed slaves are provided.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cult of Domesticity: Fanny Fern: Fern Leaves From Fanny's Portfolio

For Students 9th - 10th
Short periodical pieces that examine the complex and challenging roles that women found thrust upon them in mid-nineteenth century American culture. Discussion questions are provided.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cult of Domesticity: Godey's Lady's Book, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Published for much of the nineteenth century, Godey's Lady's Book provides a tapestry of differing images about the roles of women and of issues that concerned them. Discussion questions are provided.
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Website
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: 1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To better understand the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary lesson plan integrates analyzing historical primary resources with literary analysis. Students work in groups and express themselves...

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