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Library of Congress

Loc: Child Labor in the Canning Industry of Maryland [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Child labor was a terribly common, but dangerous thing near the end of the nineteenth century. Read this report of the conditions in a particular cannery in Maryland where many young children are working the lines.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Conflicting Newspaper Accounts (Civil War Lesson Plan) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multilayered lesson plan that begins with analysis of a series of photographs of the battle of Antietam and ends with writing an account of the battle in the style of a nineteenth-century war correspondent from opposing perspectives of...
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Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Blues Music: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview and definition of blues music that developed in the southern United States in the early nineteenth century. Performers from Georgia include Ray Charles, Ma Rainey, Little Richard, and the Allman Brothers.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: John Tyndall

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on nineteenth-century scientist and natural philosopher John Tyndall.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Franz Schubert

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers biographical information on Franz Peter Schubert, nineteenth century Austrian composer.
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Graphic
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: American Art to 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
Study works of American art from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Works in a variety of media, including the decorative arts, are represented as are pieces by some of America's best-known artists: Copley, Church, Homer, and...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Reform in Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
How did Britain avoid a revolution amongst their own in England? Discover how several Parliamentary reforms played a role in a brewing revolution. This slideshow will enhance studying nineteenth century Britain.
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Handout
Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Slavery in Early Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth account of slavery in early Texas shares first-hand information and personal stories to give a true picture of what it was like in Texas the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Have a Hidden Message?

For Students 9th - 10th
In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is...
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Handout
Other

University of Vermont: Godey's Lady's Book: Sarah Josepha Hale

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book for forty years in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Article
Other

Texas Navy Association: Commodore Charles Edward Hawkins [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Commander of the First Texas Navy in the early nineteenth century during the time of the Texan Revolution.
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eBook
Other

Hillcrest High School: Us History: Expansion in Texas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter covers a time in Texas history during the mid-nineteenth century when Mexico offered land grants to American settlers, but conflict developed over religion and other cultural differences.
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Handout
Other

Texas Beyond History: Early Ranching on the Northern Frontier of New Spain

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of early ranching during the westward expansion and the cattle boom from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
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Handout
Other

Texas Beyond History: Texas and the Western Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the expansion of the frontier in and around Texas during the middle of the nineteenth century as the Civil War was coming to an end.
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Website
Northern Illinois University

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Teacher's Parlor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans centered around President Abraham Lincoln that helps students understand some important events in America's history. The purpose of the page is present some major themes in American history from mid...
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Article
Other

Humanities Texas: Texas Originals: James Stephen Hogg

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of James Stephen Hogg's work in the Texas governor's office in the late nineteenth century.
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Lesson Plan
University of California

The History Project: Meaning of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
As the United States emerged from World War II, suburbs began to spring up with amazing speed. They were advertised as the perfect place to live - a utopia in which the family would flourish. The suburbs, with their promise of an escape...
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Article
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Eastern Cougar

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet giving information about the eastern cougar, an endangered species. It is not certain whether the eastern cougar still survives, as there have not been irrefutable sightings in the wild since the nineteenth century.
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Website
Other

Utopia in History

For Students 9th - 10th
A short account of the idea of utopia (as seen in pictures) in the revolutionary period through the nineteenth century both in Europe and the United States.
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Website
PBS

Kqed: Russian American Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...
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Handout
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Native American Relations in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a peek inside the Republic of Texas' relations with the Native Americans in the early nineteenth century.
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Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Mexican War of Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the Mexican War of Independence, which was a series of revolts that grew out of the increasing political turmoil both in Spain and Mexico at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Unit Plan
Texas Public Broadcasting

Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads 1850 1901

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of the era of cotton, cattle, and railroads in the late nineteenth century which was a time of huge economic growth for Texas.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

For Students 9th - 10th
William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most eminent scientists of the nineteenth century and is best known today for inventing the international system of absolute temperature that bears his name. He made contributions to...

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