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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Acceptance for Nomination of Second Term

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of President Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance of nomination for a second term.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: The Four Freedoms

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcribed portion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress on January 6, 1941.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Pearl Harbor Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
A printable version of the speech delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 8, 1941 following the events on Pearl Harbor.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: State of the Union Address

For Students 9th - 10th
Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union Address from January 08, 1964.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty

For Students 9th - 10th
A special message to congress by Lyndon Baines Johnson, from March 16, 1964, proposing a nationwide war on the sources of poverty.
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Teaching American History: Lyndon B. Johnson Documents

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcripts of Lyndon Baines Johnson's most famous speeches from 1963-1969.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Government's Employee Loyalty Program

For Students 9th - 10th
A descriptive statement by President Harry S. Truman outlining his administration's loyalty review program for government employees.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Document Library: Civil Rights Act of 1866

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the complete text of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which set out guarantees for citizenship in post-Civil War America as well as the punishments for those who tried to obstruct these guarantees.
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Teaching American History: Document Library: Lincoln: Cooper Institute Address

For Students 9th - 10th
Full-text transcript of Abraham Lincoln's address to the Cooper Union Institute, delivered in February 1860 and largely credited as the speech that won Lincoln the presidency.
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Teaching American History: Document Library: Louis Lomax Interviews Malcolm X

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete transcript of an interview with Malcolm X from 1963, before he left the Nation of Islam, in which he explains his earlier-articulated condemnations of white America.