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University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South (Doc South)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Provides primary sources for the study of southern history, culture and literature. DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
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Other

Ithaca College:project Look Sharp: Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides a multi-unit curriculum kit on presidential campaigns that incorporates media literacy. Downloads include teacher guides, student handouts, media documents, visual and audio materials, and more.
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PBS

Pbs: Angelina and Sarah Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of the Grimke sisters, women who were before their time in so many ways and who fought for equality of the sexes.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Reconstruction Amendments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students will understand and explain the key provisions of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: South Carolina Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The PBS South Carolina Collection features a range of digital resources tailored especially for Palmetto State teachers and students. Topics include early education, literacy, African American history, STEM, Common Core, and many more!
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies Units

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the formation of the American identity as they learn early United States history from the eve of the Revolution to the end of Reconstruction
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Activity
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Slave Experience: Legal Rights and Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary materials and oral histories, PBS tells the story of the slaves' legal rights and their position with the US Government.
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Primary
National Constitution Center

National Constitution Center: Emancipation Proclamation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Classroom ready resource includes primary resource document of the Emancipation Proclamation, background information and questions for discussion.
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Article
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Impact of Dred Scott: Beginning Scott v Sandford

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the background for the Dred Scott case and its journey through the court system, finally reaching the US Supreme Court.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among...
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Hinton Rowan Helper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Hinton Rowan Helper, the only prominent American Southern author to attack slavery before the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-65). His thesis widely influenced Northern opinion...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: American Art to 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
Study works of American art from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Works in a variety of media, including the decorative arts, are represented as are pieces by some of America's best-known artists: Copley, Church, Homer, and...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: The Trial and Execution of John Brown

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using primary source documents, high school lesson plan focuses on John Brown, the events at Harper's Ferry, and his trial and execution. Included are excerpts from 16 primary source documents to aid in the research of writing this paper.
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Plantation Stories of Old Louisiana

For Students 3rd - 6th
This ebook version of Andrews Wilkinson's children's book entitled Plantation Stories Of Old Louisiana has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Famous African Americans Sojourner Truth

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares biographical content about the abolitionist named Sojourner Truth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Lesson Plan
US Mint

U.s. Mint: One Cent Program: Lincoln 2.0 [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this four-part lesson, students identify and analyze the challenges that Abe Lincoln faced during his Presidency, including keeping the Union intact.
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Curated OER

Uncle Tom and Slave Owner Simon Legree

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of slave revolts and abolitionist efforts during the first half of the nineteenth century, leading up until the Civil War. Read about the Underground Railroad, the colonization movement, and various anti-slavery books.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Abraham Lincoln, former United States President, involved in slavery issues and the Civil War.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
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Cengage Learning

Studying Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site is geared for teachers but also gives some good insight for students about studying the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe such as major themes, historical perspectives, personal issues, form, style, artistic conventions, audience,...
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eBook
University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Charles Dudley Warner, "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin"

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia Library site provides the full text of Charles Dudley Warner's 1896 essay on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It includes the history of the secession crisis.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Lincoln Douglas Debates

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the Lincoln Douglas Debates, a series of seven public debates held in 1858 between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas as they contested the Illinois Senate seat.
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...

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