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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Triumph of Nationalism: House Dividing: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of forty-four primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps, illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of eight primary resources--historical documents, literary texts, visual images, maps--illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction and teacher...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Hezekiah Niles: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Magazine excerpts that celebrate the government sponsored internal improvements of the early nineteenth century and the market economy that they fueled.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: James G. Baldwin: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that describes the exuberant life of a frontier society with all its corruption, violence, vitality, and opportunity.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Mark Twain, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Two chapters from Huckleberry Finn that offer portraits of "ordinary folks" during the Jacksonian era.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: De Tocqueville, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Three essays from the famous French visitor to America, Alexis de Tocqueville, in which he examines how religion in early nineteenth century America supported democratic tendencies.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: John Mayfield, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An essay in which historian John Mayfield claims Americans' evangelical passion is the "religious equivalent of nationalism."
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Phillis Wheatley

For Students 9th - 10th
Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave, is featured for her neoclassical poetry of pre-nineteenth century America. Click on "Phillis Wheatley Activities" for more resources.
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Article
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Use, Elegance, and National Identity in Johnson's Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
An analytical discussion of Johnson's use of literary technique in his dictionary. It includes notes and bibliography.
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Website
Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: Chronology of Revolutions of Liberal Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronology of revolutionary events from 1815-1848 with little detail.
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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Mechanics/workers, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Two statements issued by workers' groups advocating greater equality for all who labor.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Walt Whitman, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Whitman's poem celebrating the integrity and industry of the masses within a democratic culture.
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Activity
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Charles Sellers: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A secondary account from a contemporary historian that examines early nineteenth century forces and the interplay of markets and territorial expansion.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Lewis Cass: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
An argument by the Michigan Territorial governor, Lewis Cass, that claimed state laws superseded the rights claimed by Native American tribes like the Cherokee.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Triumph of Nationalism: Culture of the Common Man

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of twelve primary resources, primarily from American literature, that addresses questions about how the United States could function as a democracy, and differences between the concepts of the North and the South concerning...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Andrew Jackson: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A presidential message detailing Jackson's view that the Bank of the U.S. is unconstitutional and is a monopolistic threat to common citizens. A link to this message is provided as well as questions for discussion.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: James F. Cooper: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Essays written during the Age of the Common Man from James F. Cooper that question how much democracy can be relied upon as an effective political system. Primary source material and questions for discussion.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850: Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of nine primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Charles C. Jones, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Plantation owner, Charles Colcock Jones, argues in two chapters from his book on promoting religious education for blacks that plantation owners have an obligation to offer religious instruction to slaves.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: William Seward, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center present a reading guide that links to a speech in the Senate by William Seward, one that expresses moral outrage over the compromises allowing the expansion of slavery.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: Theodore Roosevelt, the New Nationalism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Theodore Roosevelt's speech in 1910 arguing for the vigorous involvement of government in American life.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Southern Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at the Southern attempt to, at first defend the institution of slavery, and later, to become defiant about it. See how Southern intellectuals, religious leaders, and politicians strove to create a self-sufficiency in...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Judicial Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Chief Justice John Marshall and his Supreme Court shaped the importance of the federal courts that still is in effect today. Read about several major Supreme Court decisions that were issued during his time on the court.
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Article
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Voice of Nationalism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
The emphasis is on the beginnings of the Abbey Theater. The selection discusses Yeats' contributions to the establishment of the theater, some of the movements and more current writers under what is called the "Celtic Revival."

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