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Dpla: Secession of the Southern States
This primary source set uses documents, illustrations, and maps to explore events and ideas that drove the formation of the Confederate States of America and the United States' descent into civil war. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: Shays' Rebellion
This collection of illustrations, documents, and texts help give a new perspective on Shays's rebellion and its impact. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Space Race
This set focuses on the Space Race during the mid-1950s and 1960s and examines the impact of the Space Race today. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
The documents, images, photographs, and articles in this set explore Henry Clay, an influential part of US history in the early 1800s. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: The New Deal
This primary source set allows you to explore the crisis of the Great Depression, as well as the dramatic developments of the New Deal, through photographs, speeches, letters, and oral histories. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Boston Tea Party
This primary source set allows you to explore the Boston Tea Party through photographs, cartoons, letters, and oral histories. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Battle of Gettysburg
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Battle of Gettysburg. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
This collection uses primary sources to document John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the broad range of responses it provoked across the country. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Women and the Temperance Movement
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore women and the Temperance Movement. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Freedmen's Bureau
This collection of documents, images, and readings from the era give an overview of the work done by the Freedmen's Bureau and the racial and political struggles the agency faced during the Reconstruction Era. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Fifteenth Amendment
The documents, images, photographs, and articles in this set explore the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, responses to it across the United States, and its long-term impact on the struggle for equal voting rights. Includes a teaching...
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Dpla: American Imperialism: The Spanish American War
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the Spanish-American War. Review the sources in this set to gain insight into the motivations for US engagement. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Scopes Trial
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the Scopes Monkey Trial. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Invention of the Telephone
This primary source set uses physical objects, documents, photographs, and drawings to tell the story of the invention of the telephone and its transformative impact on modern-day communication. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Voting Rights Act of 1965
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Second Ku Klux Klan and the Birth of a Nation
Primary source collection explores the Ku Klux Klan. Includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War
The sources in this primary set document Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
This set of primary sources uses photos, advertisements, maps, and other documents to shed light on that struggle toward the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: Women in the Civil War
This primary source set uses documents, illustrations, and portraits to explore the different roles women took in the Civil War and how it affected different groups of women differently. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: The New Woman
This primary source set illustrates the New Woman movement's ideals, the women who embraced it, and a society made uncomfortable by this seismic shift in the roles of men and women.
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Dpla: American Imperialism: Negro League Baseball
In this primary source set, students will view original photographs, listen to oral history recordings, and read historical texts to gain a better understanding of the lives and experiences of Negro League baseball players. Includes...
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Dpla: World War Ii's Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa
The sources in this primary set document Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Early Chinese Immigration to the Us
This set of resources provides photos, documents, and oral histories that help tell the story of this early period of Chinese immigration to the United States. Teaching guide included.