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Read Works: Change at the United Nations
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the United Nations and its leader Ban Ki-moon from South Korea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum: Truman and the United Nations
This site has a list of descriptions of documents that can be found in the United Nations Allied Reparations folder. Click link at the end of each description to view full-text document.
Read Works
Read Works: Leader of the United Nations
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the role of the United Nations and its leader, Ban Ki-moon. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Reading comprehension...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson: United Nations: International Day of Peace (K 12)
This lesson plan will help students to learn about the goal of world peace and what they can do to positively impact the world.
United Nations
The United Nations: Home Page
The portal into the site of the U.N. The "About the UN" button is the place to start gathering information about the organization, but there is plenty of other information, news, policy, etc. available here.
US Department of State
Office of the Historian: The Formation of the United Nations, 1945
Read about the background of the formation of the United Nations, and the ratification of its charter in 1945.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The United Nations
Formation and organization of the United Nations. See why the United Nations was chartered and read about its tasks.
Other
United Nations Refugee Agency: Teaching About Refugees
Lesson plans and teachers' tools provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Focus on developing empathy, open-mindedness, and global concern within your classroom.
TES Global
Blendspace: Malala Yousefzai's Speech to the United Nations
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, texts, and videos about Malala Yousefzai and her speech to the United Nations.
United Nations
United Nations: Cyberschoolbus: International Women's Day
Learn about the founding of International Women's Day, celebrated each year on March 8. Includes facts, vocabulary words and a discussion of why this day is so important to the cause of equality.
United Nations
United Nations: Events: December 10: Human Rights Day
Learn what human rights are and why they need to be protected. Also find out about the advancements that have been made in the past 20 years, and what Human Rights Day aims to achieve each year. Includes video.
United Nations
Charter of the United Nations: Table of Contents
This is the official, complete version of the UN Charter. It includes nineteen chapters, for a total of 111 Articles, but it is not difficult to read or comprehend, written in a reasonably clear, straightforward style. You cannot,...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1950
Learn about the 1950 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize through this website, which provides the prize "Presentation Speech," Ralph Bunche's (1904-1971 CE) Nobel Lecture entitled "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time," and a brief...
US National Archives
Our Documents: Great Seal of the United States (1782)
View and learn about the original design of the great seal, including the history of its creation and its current uses.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Founding the United States
This is a collection of 15 Grade-Leveled texts (5-12) on the topic The Founding of America. Once the Revolutionary War was over, America's Founding Fathers had to develop a nation. Learn about the founding of American democracy, from the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Communicating With the President
Students will be able to apply knowledge about the writing process in this lesson plan about communicating with the President of the United States. Presidential Resources, academic content standards and ways to extend the instructional...
Other
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The official web site for the 9-11 Commission with copies of the final report, information on the hearings held by the commission and more.
United Nations
United Nations Cyberschoolbus (Spanish)
Learn about flags, facts, and statistics about countries, art galleries, global themes and discrimination. It includes the English and Spanish version.
Digital History
Digital History: The New Nation [Pdf]
Many problems existed for the new United States. Read about issues facing George Washington as the new President, and find out about the major successes of the first Congress. [PDF]
United Nations
United Nations: Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero
Well known for speaking out on behalf of the poor and the victims of repression in El Salvador, read here about the life of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and his journey on behalf of human rights around the world.
Digital History
Digital History: Andrew Jackson's War With the Bank of the United States [Pdf]
In a case of "be careful of what you wish for," President Jackson's veto of the rechartering of the Bank of the United States had many ramifications. Read about the banking issues in Jackson's second administration, his on-going war with...
Library of Congress
Loc: Brazil: Relations With the u.s.
Scroll down to "United States" to read about the entire history of U.S.-Brazil relations. This article covers this subject from the early 1900s to the present. Browse the "Forward" and "Back" buttons for info about Brazil's foreign...
Other
The Korean War: History
Contains in-depth information about the Korean War. Includes links to Korean War maps, a Korean War timeline, sites discussing the battles of the war, weapons used in the Korean War, and a photo documentary of the war.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1957: Linus Carl Pauling
Read about Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972 CE), the 1957 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. This website includes both primary and secondary resources and a "Selected Bibliography," for further research and reading.