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Google Cultural Institute: The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks

For Students 9th - 10th
This site takes viewers on a virtual tour through five of the U.S. National Parks: Alaska's Kenai Fjords, Hawaiian Volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas.
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Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
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Google Cultural Institute: 8 May 1945 Collapse and New Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
The end of the war and the early post-war period of 1945/46 is reflected in these posters shown in an imformative photographic exhibit.
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Google Cultural Institute: A Year of Unrest

For Students 9th - 10th
View stunning photographs of the Paris Riots and Prague Spring that took place during the worldwide struggle for political democracy and personal freedom in 1968.
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Google Cultural Institute: Acropolis Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis Museum in Greece, which documents the history of Athens back to prehistoric times. The first and third floors can be explored, as well as a collection of high-quality photographs of sculptures and...
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Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank

For Students 9th - 10th
Engaging site offers a pictorial essay recounting the story of the life of Holocaust victims Anne Frank and her family.
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Google Cultural Institute: Apartheid Signs

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibition tells the story of segregation in South Africa during the last half of the 20th century.
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Google Cultural Institute: Before They Perished

For Students 9th - 10th
This unique photography collection found at Birkenau after liberation includes scenes from the everyday life of families while showing the world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust.
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Google Cultural Institute: Bucharest, City of Victory

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibition portrays the Romanian Revolution of 1989 in the city of Bucharest.
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Google Cultural Institute: Conquering World Hunger

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit portrays how Harry Truman with the help of Herbert Hoover attempted to conquer the food problem in Europe after World War II.
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Google Cultural Institute: Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School

For Students 9th - 10th
When state and local authorities fail to uphold the Federal Court orders for integration at Central High School, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce those orders. Using an array of photos and primary source...
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Google Cultural Institute: Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
A photographic account of the story of Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the first woman to represent the United States as a delegate to the United Nations.
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Google Cultural Institute: They Were Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition tells the story of the deportation and rescue of Jewish children in Paris during World War II.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Spanish Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial history of the Spanish Civil War which became a struggle between Fascism and Democracy or the Nationalists and the Republicans.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Siege of Leningrad

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial account of the Siege of Leningrad by the German Army during World War II.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Romanian Revolution, Broadcast Live

For Students 9th - 10th
On December 22, 1989, the Romanian revolution was the first revolution to be broadcast live.
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Google Cultural Institute: Years of Dolce Vita

For Students 9th - 10th
This pictorial collection looks at the era of the 'good life' in Italy including the fashion, food, cars, entertainment, art, and culture of the mid-twentieth century.
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Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Fictional diary excerpts, photos, and videos tell the story of German reunification from May 6, 1989, to Oct. 3, 1991.
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Google Cultural Institute: World War Ii Looted Art: Turning History Into Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit explores the systematic looting of art in Nazi-occupied countries. These looted treasures were hidden in castles and salt mines in Austria and Germany and many have since been recovered.
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Google Cultural Institute: Womens Anti Pass March

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition tells the story of the 1956 Women's Anti-Pass March in South Africa which was an organized demonstration against the new pass laws.
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Google Cultural Institute: Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg

For Students 9th - 10th
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Cornell University Library exhibits the Bancroft copy of the Gettysburg Address, one of only five copies in the handwriting of Lincoln.
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Google Cultural Institute: Robben Island Prison Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic slideshow provides a guided street view tour of Robben Island prison by a former political prisoner. This is the same prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years during his fight to end apartheid.
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Google Cultural Institute: "The Eternal Jew"

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit tells the story of Hitler's regime's humiliation of Jews and events leading to Kristallnacht, often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.
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Google Cultural Institute: 1913 Land Act

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit takes a photographic look at the 1913 Land Act, legislation which restricted the rights of black people and their acquisition of land in South Africa.