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BBC

Bbc News: Russian Ex President Yeltsin Dies

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the death of Russia's first President, Boris Yeltsin. Provides highlights of his political career including his banning of the Communist Party in the early 1990s. (4/23/07)
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BBC

Bbc: News: Country Profile Somalia

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary overview of events in Somalia dating from the early 1990s to the present. Includes links to the most recent news stories on events in Somalia, a detailed timeline, and video.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Auto Safety History

For Students 9th - 10th
America on the Move explores the role of transportation in American History highlighting its role as a vital part of our business, social, and cultural history. This section provides an overview of the history of automobile safety...
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Other

Library of Congress/crs: Macedonia Country Background [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This Congressional Research Service report examines the ethnic tensions between Albanian rebels and the Macedonian government during the 1990s as well as the global response to the conflict in Macedonia in 2001. In addition, it provides...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Water Conservation: Denver, Co

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from Last Oasis explores the use of new dams as a way to provide or store water. In the 1990s, the city of Denver was looking for a new source of water for its growing population, and its plan to build a new...
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Kuwait

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough look at Kuwait from the Country Studies section of the Library of Congress. Read about its history, economy, people, and government. Information through the 1990's.
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough look at Egypt from the Country Studies section of the Library of Congress. Read about its history, economy, people, and government. Information through the 1990s.
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Other

In The90s: Clothes of the 90s

For Students 9th - 10th
For 1990s cultural literacy, a list of popular clothing from that decade of baby doll dresses, backpack purses, cargo pants, and so on.
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Moldova Conflict in Transnistria and Gagauzia

For Students 9th - 10th
This excerpt from the Library of Congress' Moldova: A Country Study (Ed. Helen Fedor) analyzes the Transnistria-Moldova Conflict from 1990-1992.
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BBC

Bbc: On This Day

For Students 9th - 10th
News reports--some with audio, video and eye-witness accounts--of significant events, 1950-2005, that occurred on today's date. Search by date, year, or theme.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: An Interview With Mexico President Zedillo In

For Students 9th - 10th
A full transcript of a interview with Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo in 1997.
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BBC

Bbc: Bosnia's Post War Rebirth

For Students 9th - 10th
A 2005 analysis of the progress made in the rebuilding and recovery of Bosnia-Hercegovina from the vicious civil war of the 1990's. Also provides links to related subjects.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Oliphant's Anthem

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth view of Pat Oliphant's career in editorial cartooning. There are many good images of political satire about issues from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Mongolia

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough look at Mongolia from the Country Studies section of the Library of Congress. Read about its history, economy, people, and government. Information through the 1990's.
eBook
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Michael Morrison's History of Computer Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
This Carnegie Mellon site features inventions and discoveries in the field of computer animation from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Maya Lin 1959

For Students 3rd - 8th
Trace the enchanting life of artist and architect, Maya Lin, who in 1983 designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and in the 1990s designed new monuments/memorials at various universities. Now she has her own line of furniture.
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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: Asia Overview 1999

For Students 9th - 10th
This site deals with the human rights issues of religious and ethnic conflict that have occurred in Indonesia and throughout Asia in the late 1990s, particularly in East Timor. Article also includes information about US-Taliban relations...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Struggle Continues

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource addresses the discrimination issues still in the air following the significant progress made between 1960's-1990's.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Arduous March

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video about the Arduous March in the 1990s and one family's experience during this period of hardship and famine in recent North Korean history. [2:18]
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University of North Carolina

American Diplomacy: Is China Unstable?

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the problems facing China in the late 1990s and going back to the Pro-Democracy movement. The author focuses on the problems of discontent among Chinese workers.
eBook
University of Texas at Austin

Lanic: Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents describing the Zapatista revolt in Southern Mexico. These were written, either by the revolutionaries, or supporters of the revolution. This is a good resource to get background on why this revolt took place in...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Reform Party of the United States of America

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia encyclopedia entry for Ross Perot's 1992 third-party presidential bid and his Reform Party of the 1990s provides history, platform issues, and related information and links.
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BBC

Bbc News: Milosevic Indictment: Text

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed summary of the indictment and charges against President Slobodan Milosevic related to his conducting a war against Kosovo and other ethnic area sin Serbia in the 1990s. The indictment was released in October 2001. (2004).
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PBS

Pbs: Hopes on the Horizon Benin

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to a documentary on the rise of pro-democracy movements in six African countries during the 1990s.

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