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National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Cities and Suburbs: Nature Transformed

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the history of cities and suburbs and how nature has been transformed in the U.S. Author Christopher Sellers guides us with informational text, questions and scholars debate.
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National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved

For Students 9th - 10th
What are the "big questions" of Reconstruction? Article provides an overview of the Reconstruction period when Americans debated rights and the nature of freedom and equality. It focuses on who was an American and how citizenship should...
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Monthly Review: Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides access to the essay "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Einstein argues for socialism as the way to rise above the predatory phase of human...