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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: European Union

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the European region and consider what makes a successful city and how effective is supranationalism? A video features Berlin and Amsterdam for urban development and then looks into the concept of supranationalism in the European...
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Handout
Other

Institute for Conflict Managament: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Ltte

For Students 9th - 10th
A terrorism profile of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which includes information on their bombing tactics and their use of children as soldiers.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: One Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from Wide Angle describes the communist Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Romanticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an encyclopedia article which defines the period of Romanticism from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It describes the characteristics of Romanticism in general and in literature, visual arts, and music.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: John Mayfield

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource of John Mayfield, as he discusses civic life, religion and the growth of American democracy in an excerpt from "Toward the Millennium," ch. 8 in The New Nation: 1800-1845, 1982 (rev. ed.)
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Article
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Philosophy and Literature: Intellectual Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the intellectual atmosphere in the 1800s as America struggled to find its identity. The influences of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are described, and the ideas of various writers and philosophers.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Segregation Separation: Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource summarizes and links to primary source articles examining the relationship between segregation and racial separation highlighting some of the effects of segregation on the black community post World War I.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Separating: Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Article summarizes and provides links to audio and text versions of a speech made by Malcolm X one month after he left the Nation of Islam over a disagreement with its leader Elijah Muhammad. Includes questions for discussion.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Toolbox: America in 1850: Daniel Webster

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards including Daniel Webster, Speech to the United States Senate, March 7, 1850.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience: 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
Thoreau's essay that calls for citizens to break unjust laws, particularly those promoting the continuation and expansion of slavery.
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Wilson and Lansing on the u.s. Invasion of Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Secretary of State Robert Lansing's letter to President Woodrow Wilson urging the President to avoid the term "intervention" to characterize the U.S. 1916 invasion of Mexico to capture the revolutionary Pancho Villa.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: American Political Thought

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this impressive collection of resources to enhance lessons about the history of political thoughts in the United States.
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Digital History

Digital History: Creating a Distinctly American Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Truly American literature based on American legend, native scenes, and American culture began to find a place in the 1820s. Read about three of the American writers that introduced American literature to a reading public.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Birth of American Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of many different forms of popular culture in the first half of the 19th century ranging from sensationalized newspapers to dime novels to pseudoscience. Read about Stephen Foster's music, theatrical productions, and even...
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Website
University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Orthodox Zionism

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the roots of Zionism, including important figures. Includes biography of Abraham Isaac Kook and a description of Zionism in Israel.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams & Black Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the story of civil rights activist Rob Williams and his belief that Black Americans needed to draw guns on violent racists.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: American Ideas About Trade [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
American businessmen in the late 18th and 19th centuries were very interested in finding markets all over the world for their goods and actively pursuing opportunities for foreign trade. The young nation needed to earn money to pay back...
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Website
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Where Do You Feel Most American

For Students 9th - 10th
A touching website from the National Public Radio devoted to stories of Americans who feel a national pride and an American identity.
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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Holidays

For Students 9th - 10th
Fun module on American holidays provides students with one or more videos for special holidays in each month of the year and offers links to related resources, such as Veterans Museum and Memorial Center, Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic...
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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: History of the u.s. Flag

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the American flag is told here through numerous videos and links to the Museum of American History.
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BBC

Bbc News: The Angolan Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
A compilation of reports covering Angola's civil war includes information on various topics such as: landmines, diamonds, oil and guns, and more. The audio versions seem to be out of date.
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Article
Other

Socialist worker.org: The Politics of Marcus Garvey

For Students 9th - 10th
The "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America and gave rise to a mass Black nationalist movement. Christina Bergmark takes a look at the reasons why.
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Other

Amistad Digital Resource: Pan Africanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Pan-Africanism, a political movement in the early part of the twentieth century that aims to unify people of African descent.
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Hanover College

Hanover College: Ukrainian Famine

For Students 9th - 10th
Archived by the Library of Congress and presented here by Hanover College, these are excerpts of historical records from the early decades of the Soviet Union, when Stalin forced collectivism and industrialization on the Russian people.

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