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Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
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Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (Chapter 2) [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Chapter 2 of the third edition (2010) of the book "Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives" by Norwegian author Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor at the University of Oslo. He has been studying ethnicity for...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the Fordham University describes nationalism and its political force in the 19th century. Includes a variety of multimedia links.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Music and Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Fordham University provides college-level reading on how the Nationalism of the 19th Century affected the music of the 20th, especially Classical music. These composers lived most of their lives in the 1800's, but are often classified...
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Digital History

Digital History: Era of Good Feelings: Growth of American Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of an on-line textbook, this essay deals with the rise of nationalism in James Monroe's Era of Good Feelings and Monroe's attempts to solidify that idea.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Serbian Nationalism: Nacertanije to Yugoslav Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapters from a text book about modern Balkan history. These selected chapters focus on World War I. It traces Serbian nationalism from 1840-1929. Touches on the Balkan wars as well as Greek nationalism.
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Digital History

Digital History: Black Nationalism and Black Power

For Students 9th - 10th
There were two methods of protesting discrimination of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement: follow Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X. Find out about the Black Panther Party, Black Nationalism, and Black Power.
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Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Mandela and the Masses: African Nationalism & Workers

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the rise of nationalism on South Africa as a background to the African National Congress and the restraints put on the black middle class.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: World His: Industrial Revolution, Nationalism, Imperialism

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive unit covering 19th Century Industrial Revolution, Nationalism, and Imperialism. Multi-media resources, assignments, activities and assessment.
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Philosophy and Literature: Quest for Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the struggle of Americans to develop a unified sense of national identity in the 1800s.
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University of Minnesota

U Mn: Immigration, Demographic Change, and National Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource includes two documents: one is written by a senior Japanese immigration officer who discusses Japan's immigration policy options, and the other is written by a Harvard professor who questions the influence of Hispanic...
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace: Pakistan & Baluch Nationalism [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the nationalism that is emerging in Baluchistan, a region/province of Pakistan and how it could lead to an overall political instability in the area. 1/2006
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Fraser Institute: Culture and National Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of this article is to explore the meaning of culture and national identity as they underlie Canadian content regulations in media.
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War at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about nationalism in the Balkans from the early 1900's to the present.
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The Corner: National Rivalries

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses two kinds of nationalism which arose in Europe in the 19th century, nationalism in Germany, nationalism in Italy, nationalism in Austria-Hungary, nationalism in Russia, the Treaty of Paris and Russia, nationalism in France, and...
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Swarthmore College: Nationalism and Its Discontents

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of all the congresses and conventions and their declarations that took place in Africa as well as a commentary on the destruction of African culture.
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: Justice Thomas on National Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An examination of a speech Justice Clarence Thomas delivered in 2009 highlighting his thoughts on the Bill of Rights as well has his views on the importance of American civic responsibility.
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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College: The Balkans' Lethal Nationalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by historian William Hagan, "The Balkans' Lethal Nationalisms," (Foreign Affairs 78, no. 4 (July 1999), traces the background for the then contemporary conditions in Kosovo.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Triumph of Nationalism: House Dividing: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of forty-four primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps, illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of eight primary resources--historical documents, literary texts, visual images, maps--illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction and teacher...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Hezekiah Niles: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Magazine excerpts that celebrate the government sponsored internal improvements of the early nineteenth century and the market economy that they fueled.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: James G. Baldwin: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that describes the exuberant life of a frontier society with all its corruption, violence, vitality, and opportunity.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Mark Twain, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Two chapters from Huckleberry Finn that offer portraits of "ordinary folks" during the Jacksonian era.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: De Tocqueville, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
Three essays from the famous French visitor to America, Alexis de Tocqueville, in which he examines how religion in early nineteenth century America supported democratic tendencies.

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