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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Syrian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Syrian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current and does not reflect the recent war in Syria.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ukrainian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ukrainian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Asian Indian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Asian Indian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Austrian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Austrian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Cambodian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Cambodian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Cape Verdean Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Cape Verdean Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Colombian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Colombian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Costa Rican Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Costa Rican Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ecuadoran Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ecuadoran Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ethiopian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ethiopian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: French Canadian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of French-Canadian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Grenadian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Grenadian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Nigerian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Nigerian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Uruguayan Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Uruguayan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Welsh Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Welsh Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: A New African American Culture

For Students 5th - 8th
All immigrants to America bring a part of their homeland with them. The same was true of slaves. See how vocabulary, arts, and music were knit into American culture.
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University at Buffalo

Illuminations: Re Visiting the Pan American Exposition

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Read about the food available at the fair as well as the music, immigrant experience, and the assassination of President William...
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Website
Other

Jews in America: Portal to Jewish American History

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete with music from Aaron Copland, the Center for Jewish History provides an interactive website that traces the history of Jews in the United States from 1654 until today. Authors provide a searchable gallery of photographs,...
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California Digital Library

Loc: Chinese/chinese American Communities Outside San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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TES Global

Tes: West Side Story (1961) Film Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide for the film West Side Story (1961), the musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which is set in 1950s New York and incorporates themes around street crime,...
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PBS

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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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Acadians

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Acadians. (Note: Content is not the most current.)