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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 6: Becoming a Modern Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines the role of large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and mass migrations in creating new demands on government and social organizations to design reforms, and looks at the global and domestic...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Big City Politics, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ash Can School artist John Sloan's painting Election Night captures the exuberance of urban politics in the early-twentieth century, and artist Henry Glitkencamp's illustration Voting Machines suggests its corrupting power. Both pieces...
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Handout
British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from eighteenth-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this period of overseas expansion, urbanization, and early industrialization. Accompanying essays explain various...
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Website
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Getty Exhibitions: Shaping the Great City

For Students 9th - 10th
Cities in Central Europe were required to expand their infrastructure due to industrialization and an increase in the need for workers. This exhibit details and illustrates the shift and growth through modern architecture of the era.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection uses primary sources to explore the construction of the Panama Canal.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The West, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.
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Website
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: San Marino: San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano

For Students 9th - 10th
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the historic centre of the city which dates back to the foundation of the republic as a city-state in the 13th century. San Marino is inscribed as a...
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Great Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.