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The Seattle Times: On a Roll, City Spreads Out

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents an article from 'The Seattle Times' about the suburbanization of Seattle during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Handout
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Rangers and Outlaws

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the age of Texas Rangers and outlaws in Texas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Social Realism: Booker T. Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
Focused on his personal racial and civil philosophy, Booker T. Washington moved mountains making the public aware of the injustices and inequalities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Click "Booker T. Washington...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Cezanne to Picasso (Slideshow of Masterworks)

For Students 9th - 10th
An NPR-produced slideshow set to the music of Claude Debussy showcases dozens of post-impressionist masterworks by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bonnard, Derain, Degas, and Picasso. The slideshow coincides with an exhibition that opened at...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Largest Agricultural & Environmental Miscalculation in Amer History

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, "Frontier House," this essay examines "the myth and legacy of the frontier." The writer strongly suggests that within the next one or two generations, much of the land which homesteaders settled in the late...
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Other

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum: Ranger History in Brief Form Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this historical account of the Texas Rangers, a group of lawmen who fought crime and lawlessness on the Texas frontier in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets From Daniel a.p. Murray Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the...
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Other

Tenement Museum: New York Tenement Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
From the online home of the museum, take a virtual tour of the restored apartments in a tenement building located at 97 Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side. Learn about the lives of actual past residents and experience what life...
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the agricultural industry and how it shaped the great state of Texas throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Learning Page: Labor in America

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of resources, including primary sources, student activities, and lesson plans, to support study of Americans at work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Megan Asaka, "Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and Seattle"

For Students 9th - 10th
Megan Asaka's current book, "Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle's Urban Landscape," explores the role of mobile populations in shaping urban regions through a case study of late nineteenth and early...
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Louisa May Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.org provides a very brief synopsis of Louisa May Alcott's life and accomplishments as a writer includes a link to a full-text of her book, "Little Women."
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Women's Rights: Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, bloomers.
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California Digital Library

Loc: Chinese in California: Agriculture, Fishing, and Related Industries

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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California Digital Library

Loc: Anti Chinese Movement and Chinese Exclusion

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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California Digital Library

Loc: Chinese and Westward Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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California Digital Library

Loc: Sentiments Concerning the Chinese: Illustrations From Periodicals

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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Article
California Digital Library

Loc: San Fransico's Chinatown

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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Article
California Digital Library

Loc: Chinese/chinese American Communities Outside San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...
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Handout
Cool Fire Technology

Cool Fire Technology: Supreme Court Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of the most significant Supreme Court cases in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with brief summaries of how they impacted on federalism.
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Other

The Classical Gold Standard, 1815 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the classical gold standard of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Curated OER

Hesquiaht Woman From the Central Nootka Tribe, British Columbia, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
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Curated OER

Photograph of an Aboriginal Man Standing in a Graveyard, Fort Qu

For Students 9th - 10th
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).
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Graphic
Curated OER

Photograph of a Man Paddling a Kayak Off the Coast of Greenland, 1889

For Students 9th - 10th
View aspects of the history of the aboriginal peoples of Canada through photographs. Culture, ways of life, and struggles can be examined in this database of primary source images (most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century).

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