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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Gilded Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding historical questions. The Gilded Age unit highlights the turbulent changes that characterized the end of the nineteenth century.
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National First Ladies' Library

National First Ladies' Library: Literature of the Gilded Age

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use this lesson plan to familiarize students with the authors associated with the time period of the Gilded Age.
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Identity in the Gilded Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the tension experienced by African-Americans as they struggled to establish a vibrant and meaningful identity based on the promises of liberty and equality in the midst of a society that was ambivalent towards them and sought to...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: 1898 North Carolina Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources on the 1898 election in North Carolina during the Gilded Age. Includes handouts, primary sources, and student questions. Requires free registration to access resources.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Ellis Island, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson examines seven Lewis Hine photographs of recently-arrived immigrants at Ellis Island.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Learning Page: American Indian Reservation Controversies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary sources help learners understand issues and controversies surrounding the American Indian Reservations of the 1870s. Historians provide different accounts and views of this facet of American history, and students utilize these...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Learners interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Yearning to Breathe Free: Muckrakers and Activism [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that leads learners through an examination of the role of muckrakers in the development of investigative journalism. Students work to identify...

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