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Graphic
Library of Congress

Loc: Herblock's Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
Historically significant collection of political cartoons featuring U.S. Presidents from Library of Congress online teacher-student resources.
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Primary
American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: State of the Union Addresses and Messages

For Students 9th - 10th
This site compiles all of the State of the Union addresses and messages by all the presidents in U.S. history (except William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield).
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Fighting the Good Fight in World War Ii 1941 1945: The Home Front

For Students 11th - 12th
Discusses how America prepared for war, the impact on the work force in the United States, how women and other civilians supported the war effort, and how the war affected race relations.
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: D Day and the Normandy Invasion

For Students 9th - 10th
Using photos and primary source documents this visual essay explores D-Day (Operation Overlord), the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.
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Website
Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Liberty: World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around World War II. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: "I Do Solemnly Swear" Presidential Inauguration

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive site looks at presidential inaugurations from the first, George Washington to the present. Primary documents are included.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Cold War at Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the profound effect the Cold War had on domestic life and government policy in the U.S.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: D Day Invasion

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the events that took place leading up to and during the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces and the losses that were suffered by the Germans.
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Handout
Other

Public Roads Magazine: Creating the Interstate System

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the creation of the interstate highway system by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Mc Carthyism

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the dangers of paranoia when exercised by people of power. The witch-hunting of the McCarthy era made rash and false accusations against supposed Communist sympathizers that affected many lives.
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Website
Other

Gbt Television: The March of the Bonus Army

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief description of the march on Washington, D.C., in 1932 by veterans of World War I. Find out which military leaders helped to rout the men from their Bonus Army camps,
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The 1950s: Happy Days

For Students 5th - 8th
A brief look at American life and politics in the 1950s with an increase in consumerism and fear of the Soviet Union.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Interstate Highway System

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information, history, and facts on the Interstate Highway System that began a new road culture making travel faster, easier, and safer.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1957

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative article on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote.
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Handout
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Seato

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, that was formed in 1954. It was intended to be the Southeast Asian version of NATO.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Warsaw Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details the 1955 Warsaw Pact, signed by the Soviets and its 7 communist 'satellite nations'.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Brown vs Board of Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview and detailed facts about Brown vs Board of Education, a 1954 Supreme Court case won by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall against school segregation.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Sclc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and a summary on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed as a Civil Rights non-violent protest group in 1957.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn detailed facts about the Little Rock Nine crisis, the refusal to admit 9 African American students to the racially segregated Little Rock Central High in Arkansas in 1957.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and a summary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a protest against segregation on public buses that began on December 1, 1955. It was led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: U 2 Incident

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and an overview of the 1960 U-2 Incident when an American U2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers was shot down over Russia.
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Curated OER

Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar (1904 2001), and Robert A. Ulstrom

For Students 9th - 10th
Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001), professor of pediatrics at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Robert A. Ulstrom, chair of the UCLA department of pediatrics. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar was an expert on...

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