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Santa Fe Institute: Complete Oration on the Dignity of Man

For Students 9th - 10th
The full online text of Mirandola's "Complete Oration on the Dignity of Man".
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University of Michigan: Digital Library Production Service: The New Testa

For Students 9th - 10th
A useful site for finding occurrences of single words or phrases in The New Testament, as written in the Douay-Rheims Bible, which was revised in 1750. Gives chapter and verse in response and links to an online Bible.
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University of Michigan: Global Change: The Flow of Energy: Higher Trophic Levels

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson addresses the following questions: What is the efficiency with which energy is converted from trophic level to trophic level? What are the differences between assimilation efficiency, net production efficiency, and ecological...
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Middle English Compendium: Le Morte D Arthur, by Syr Thomas Malory

For Students 9th - 10th
The full Caxton edition of the Middle English classic "Le Morte dArthur" also features a search function for keywords and phrases.
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Article
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Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association: Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of the book, Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, published in 2011, and written by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page.
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Article
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Transposed Tales of a French Missionary Among Indians in the Oregon Country

For Students 9th - 10th
The author of this article writes of how letters written by French missionaries describing their experiences in Oregon in the 1800s, were greatly revised for publication in France, so that the narratives took on far more positive tones....
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Making of America: Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions

For Students 9th - 10th
Catharine E. Beecher discusses the education of women and other pertinent topics of her day in this 1874 treatise. Browse or search this full text of her "Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions," published in 1874.
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Making of America: Illustrated Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, searchable text of "Illustrated Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," which was illustrated by George Randolph Barse and others.
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Making of America: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the University of Michigan, you can read individual pages of Harriet Jacobs' book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," and search the text for specific words and phrases.
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University of Michigan: Proprietary Rights/norms of Science in Biotech Research

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines how the commercialization of scientific discoveries leads to conflict between proprietary rights to intellectual property, trade secrecy, and the maintenance of scientific norms. The first two inhibit the...
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Corpus of M. E. Prose and Verse: Troilus and Criseyde

For Students 9th - 10th
The full Middle English text of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" from Troilus & Criseyde: A new edition of "The book of Troilus" (London: Longman, 1984).
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Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse: Everyman

For Students 9th - 10th
The full, Middle English text of the morality play Everyman edited by A.C. Cawley is provided.
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Making of America: The Spirit of the South Towards Northern Freemen and Soldiers

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of a William Lloyd Garrison's compilation of newspaper articles and letters of Southerners railing against the North in the Civil War. There is no commentary, only the primary source documents.
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Middle English Compendium: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the Middle English classic "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is provided along with a search feature to find keywords and phrases.
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Making of America: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters by Wendell Phillips

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers the complete text of the book "Speeches, Lectures, and Letters" by Wendell Phillips. Searchable by page number or you can download the entire text.
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Website
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University of Michigan: Chico's Salsa Virtual Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
This multimedia tour of Salsa dancing includes general background information, a chronology of salsa, sound and video clips, biographies on salsa artists, and resources for further reading and research. Also included is a "Salsa...
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Making of America Books

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete online text of "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass is available through University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections.
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Middle English Compendium: William Langland's the Vision of Piers Plowman

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the middle English narrative poem Piers Plowman. Readers have the ability to view text in sections, or as a whole, and to carry out a search.
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Making of America: Ballads of New England

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
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Making of America: Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Catherine Beecher's 1873 book of Victorian homemaker's advice, including hundreds of recipes.
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Making of America: Reminiscences of Levi Coffin

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Michigan presents a digitization of "Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, "Coffin's memoirs. Simple, boolean, and proximity searching within the text is possible.
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Making of America: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitization of this two-volume, searchable text of Margaret Fuller's memoirs are available.
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Middle English Compendium: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and search Chaucer's famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." Text is provided in untranslated Middle English.
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Article
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Bentley Historical Library: A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at Michigan

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and analysis on the student-led resistance to the war in Vietnam at the University of Michigan.