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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Cousin Bette: Reading Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Critical background information, as well as a biographical sketch and discussion questions are offered here by the publisher.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Young Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Painter and printer John Rubens Smith sketched rivers, roads, cities, bridges, and mills throughout America between the years 1810 and 1840. Digital images of his art are provided...
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Library of Congress

Loc: "O Captain! My Captain!"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides comments on a poem written by Walt Whitman at the death of Abraham Lincoln. Image of the manuscript available at this Library of Congress site.
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Ite About 'The Banquet'

For Students 9th - 10th
This painting is the last of a four-part series painted for Charles Jacoby. The notes will help familiarize you with the content of the work and the special zoom feature will give you a closer look at the painting technique.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Thanatopsis

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text to William Cullen Bryant's poem Thanatopsis.
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A&E Television

Biography: Vincent Van Gogh

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the creative, but tumultuous, career of artist Vincent van Gogh. Discusses several of his most famous works ("The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers"), his artistic influences, and legacy.
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Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Sketch Map of Mid Century Africa, Circa 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa around the middle of the nineteenth century showing European interests on the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established their territorial claims. The majority of the continent was unexplored at...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Md: B&o Trans Museum & Mount Clare Station

For Students 9th - 10th
Collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads; 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock; 15,000 artifacts; four nineteenth-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse; a mile of historic track.
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Encyclopedia of Chicago: Tenements

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia entry about tenements that focuses on the housing situation of poor immigrants in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Chicago. Includes information about early efforts to improve public housing in the city.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hannibal

For Students 9th - 10th
Hannibal's Passage of the Alps. Hannibal determined to carry the war into Italy. To do this, he had to fight his way through Spain and cross the Alps, which were regarded as an impassable barrier between Italy and the North. In this he...
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Click to View Full Sized Image

For Students 9th - 10th
High-quality zoomable image of Goya's satrical commentary on the religious abuses of the Inquisition, which lingered on in Spain well into the early nineteenth century.
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Etc: Maps Etc: The System of Communication, Western United States, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
The chief systems of overland travel and communication during the middle nineteenth century including railroads, stage lines, and trails (Oregon Trail, Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and the Route of the Forty-niners). The system of...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Louisiana: The Courthouse and Lawyers' Row

For Students 9th - 10th
Built in the mid-nineteenth century, this courthouse and five nearby law office buildings are examples of Greek Revival architecture.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ct: Cheney Brothers Historic District

For Students 9th - 10th
A nineteenth century silk mill and traditional company town.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Margaret Fuller House

For Students 9th - 10th
This was the birthplace and childhood home of Transcendentalist and feminist Margaret Fuller (1810-50). Her Woman in the Nineteenth Century is one of the earliest statements of feminist thought.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Franklin School

For Students 9th - 10th
A nineteenth-century school, site of Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with the photophone.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: Charles W. Morgan

For Students 9th - 10th
Only surviving wooden ship from the nineteenth-century American whaling fleet.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: John Rogers Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
Studio of the popular nineteenth century sculptor John Rogers.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Federal Hall Natl Memorial

For Students 9th - 10th
First capitol of the United States of America; site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789; place where the United States Bill of Rights passed; original building was demolished in the nineteenth century; replaced by the...
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'Ambroise Vollard' by Paul Cezanne.

For Students 9th - 10th
Paris at the end of the nineteenth century was at the center of a cultural arts explosion owing, in part, to the constellation of artists surrounding the art dealership of Ambroise Vollard. This archived report from NPR tells the story...
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Ambroise Vollard Photo

For Students 9th - 10th
Paris at the end of the nineteenth century was at the center of a cultural arts explosion owing, in part, to the constellation of artists surrounding the art dealership of Ambroise Vollard. This archived report from NPR tells the story...
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'Ambroise Vollard' by Picasso.

For Students 9th - 10th
Paris at the end of the nineteenth century was at the center of a cultural arts explosion owing, in part, to the constellation of artists surrounding the art dealership of Ambroise Vollard. This archived report from NPR tells the story...
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Engraving of Mary Wollestonecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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