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Texas Navy Association: Commodore Charles Edward Hawkins [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Commander of the First Texas Navy in the early nineteenth century during the time of the Texan Revolution.
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Hillcrest High School: Us History: Expansion in Texas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter covers a time in Texas history during the mid-nineteenth century when Mexico offered land grants to American settlers, but conflict developed over religion and other cultural differences.
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Texas Beyond History: Early Ranching on the Northern Frontier of New Spain

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of early ranching during the westward expansion and the cattle boom from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
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Texas Beyond History: Texas and the Western Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the expansion of the frontier in and around Texas during the middle of the nineteenth century as the Civil War was coming to an end.
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Northern Illinois University

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Teacher's Parlor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans centered around President Abraham Lincoln that helps students understand some important events in America's history. The purpose of the page is present some major themes in American history from mid...
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Humanities Texas: Texas Originals: James Stephen Hogg

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of James Stephen Hogg's work in the Texas governor's office in the late nineteenth century.
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University of California

The History Project: Meaning of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
As the United States emerged from World War II, suburbs began to spring up with amazing speed. They were advertised as the perfect place to live - a utopia in which the family would flourish. The suburbs, with their promise of an escape...
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Eastern Cougar

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet giving information about the eastern cougar, an endangered species. It is not certain whether the eastern cougar still survives, as there have not been irrefutable sightings in the wild since the nineteenth century.
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Utopia in History

For Students 9th - 10th
A short account of the idea of utopia (as seen in pictures) in the revolutionary period through the nineteenth century both in Europe and the United States.
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PBS

Kqed: Russian American Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Native American Relations in Texas

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a peek inside the Republic of Texas' relations with the Native Americans in the early nineteenth century.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Mexican War of Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the Mexican War of Independence, which was a series of revolts that grew out of the increasing political turmoil both in Spain and Mexico at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Texas Public Broadcasting

Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads 1850 1901

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of the era of cotton, cattle, and railroads in the late nineteenth century which was a time of huge economic growth for Texas.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

For Students 9th - 10th
William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most eminent scientists of the nineteenth century and is best known today for inventing the international system of absolute temperature that bears his name. He made contributions to...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: James Watt

For Students 9th - 10th
The Scottish instrument maker and inventor James Watt had a tremendous impact on the shape of modern society. His improvements to the steam engine were a significant factor in the Industrial Revolution, and when the Watt engine was...
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why Texas was the last frontier of slavery in the United States during the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum: Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanatory notes and images from an online exhibition of nineteenth-century woodcuts by one of Japan's most-revered artists, Utagawa Hiroshige. "Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" represents over 100 prints of scenes of Tokyo...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Susanna Rowson

For Students 9th - 10th
American Passages presents a brief biography of Susanna Rowson, accomplished author and actress of the nineteenth century. Click on "Susanna Rowson Activities" for related materials.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Art History: Jericho

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discussing the long history of the city of Jericho and some of the extraordinary archaeological discoveries made there since the nineteenth century. Includes links to additional information and images.
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Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Sarah Josepha Hale

For Students 9th - 10th
Although few know her name today, Sarah Josepha Hale was one of the most influential women in nineteenth century America. She used her position as editor of Godey's Lady's Book to effect a wide range of social changes, including the...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: War and International Law: America's Foreign Policy: A Brief History

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the history of foreign policy in the United States from the nineteenth century through to the present. Identify what values and principles have helped its formation over the years. Includes discussion questions.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: Novela Historica Espanola

For Students 9th - 10th
This is divided in two parts: the historical novels of the Spanish romanticism period and novels published since the mid nineteenth century.
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Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Song for the Horse Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition about horses in Native American cultures takes a sweeping look at the ways in which Native peoples, past and present, regard horses and horsemanship. Learn how the horse transformed Native approaches to the hunt, warfare,...

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