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University of Groningen

American History: Presidents: Ronald Wilson Reagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains links to the following Ronald Reagan speeches: Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Addresses, The 1964 Speech, The Challenger Disaster Speech, The Evil Empire Speech, Pointe de Hoc Normandy, Speech at Omaha...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage celebrating the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham's plan for Chicago. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of j.m. Synge

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains 4 of Synge's poems: "The Curse", "Danny," "On an Anniversary," and "Queens," as well as definitions for any vocabulary you might not know.
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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Earth Day Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A classroom activity for students which honors and commemorates the anniversary of Earth Day. Taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on April 22, 2007. Includes web links, lesson plans, and a bibliography.
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Website
Other

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
The homepage of the National Women's History Project, this site includes links to suffrage history, timeline, a chat room, and student projects. Also information about the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention and national...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its past, present, and future. This Collection includes the following: Video (6), Media...
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Primary
US Department of Justice

Statement by Attorney General Reno on 35th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright

For Students 9th - 10th
This press release outlines the impact the Gideon case has had on the legal system since its announcement by the Supreme Court in 1963.
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Handout
Other

World Report International: Second Anniversary of the Peace Treaty

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the African country of Angola two years after a peace treaty ended years of war. Find out about the people, their standard of living, economy, and challenges faced. Were they still struggling? What then were the prospects for...
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Lesson Plan
Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This series of learning activities is about the history of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and other First World War events. View the construction of the Vimy Memorial and explore Vimy today.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Apollo 11 30th Anniversary

For Students 9th - 10th
A look back at the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 in July of 1969. Site has links to audio clips and images from the mission and other Apollo web sites.
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Website
Other

Tcnj: Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Digital Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive archive of documents, articles, images, and activities related to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case from 1954. The site was last updated in 2004 and the video links do not seem to be working now. The...
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Article
Curated OER

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 a 40th Anniversary

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at the uprising in Hungary in 1956 discusses its origins, the politics and major figures involved, and gives one man's first-hand experience of the revolution.
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Website
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

50th Anniversary of the Creation of the State of Israel,

For Students 9th - 10th
An online presentation of historically significant documents and pictures from the recognition of Israel by the US.
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Website
TexasHistory.com

Texas history.com: Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of the Overland Mail Company's Butterfield line, in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2008. It describes the tensions that existed in the territory that it crossed, between slave-owners, slaves, union supporters, and...
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Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: Charles Darwin After the Origin

For Students 9th - 10th
In honor of Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of the Species," Cornell has put together an extensive collection of Darwin's work during the last two decades of his life.
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Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds

For Students 9th - 10th
This extentsive collection of resources, celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: With an Even Hand, Brown vs. Board at Fifty

For Students 9th - 10th
A special exhibit at the Library of Congress to commemorate the Brown vs. Board of Education 50 year anniversary.
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Interactive
US Senate

Russell Senate Office Building

For Students 9th - 10th
The Russell Senate Office building celebrates its 100th anniversary with a pictorial history. Includes a research guide, information on the caucus room, and a biography of Senator Richard Russell for whom the building is named.
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Website
Time

Time: Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience: Tommy Riches, Firefighter

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Time magazine 10th year anniversary tribute to those who died in 9/11 and/or survived this or other terrorist attacks since. Click on a picture to watch a video of that person's story; the videos vary in length.
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Graphic
International Institute of Social History

International Institute of Social History: A High Tower of Winter Gourds

For Students 9th - 10th
From the International Institute of Social History this is "Fourth anniversary of the revolution" a Cuban political propaganda poster by an unknown designer, 1963.
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Graphic
International Institute of Social History

International Institute of Social History: All to the Square. July 26 17th Ann

For Students 9th - 10th
From the International Institute of Social History this is "All to the square. July 26 - 17th Anniversary" a Cuban political propaganda poster by A. Prieto, 1970.
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Website
Franklin and Marshall College

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

For Students 9th - 10th
This attractive, well-designed site, developed to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of Franklin's 1706 birth, tells the story of Franklin's life and accomplishments. Learn how his roots as an ambitious, outspoken teen helped him to...
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Other

Magnum Photos: Che Guevara

For Students 9th - 10th
Magnum Photos, a distributor of the work of an exceptional group of photographers, exhibits a collection of portraits of Guevara on the fortieth anniversary of his death (2008). Includes a short essay of his life.
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Lesson Plan
Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This eight-page lesson unit was developed in honour of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln?s birthday. Students will study Lincoln?s life and his evolution into a great statesman, and the impact Lincoln had on forging the identity...

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