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Pbs: Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website, venture through the chapters of an interactive scrapbook detailing the life and writings of Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain. Includes several photographs, quotes, and audio clips. This scrapbook is part of a larger PBS...
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Pbs: The War: At Home

For Students 9th - 10th
From the extensive PBS site accompanying Ken Burns' The War, read about America at home during World War II. Read about war mobilization, censorship, how families dealt with the war, and the abrogation of civil rights as Japanese...
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Pbs: Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: Jazz in Time: Roaring Twenties

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay considers the impact of jazz on American society in the 1920s.
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Pbs: Jazz: Lionel Hampton

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the PBS site on Jazz by Ken Burns. Provides the biography of Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist, drummer, and bandleader.
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Pbs Teachers: Conflicting Newspaper Accounts (Civil War Lesson Plan) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multilayered lesson that begins with analysis of a series of photographs of the battle of Antietam and ends with writing an account of the battle in the style of a nineteenth-century war correspondent from opposing perspectives of North...
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Pbs: Cet: All Known Drafts of the Declaration of Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Three known drafts of the Declaration are available from this website. Click on the links to the left to see the different drafts. Links to Ken Burn's interview transcripts are also provided.
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Pbs: Jazz: Biographies: James Reese Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
Short but informative biography of jazz musician James Reese Europe (1881-1919) from Ken Burns' PBS documentary, Jazz.
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Pbs: The War: African Americans in World War Ii [Pdf] [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson plans and activities based on Ken Burns' film, "The War." Insight into the experiences of African Americans during the World War 11 period; from the homefront to segregation in the military to the Double V campaign. Links to video...
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Pbs: Jazz: Wynton Marsalis

For Students 9th - 10th
Providing information part of a PBS presentation, "Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns," this website offers a brief article on Wynton Marsalis, a musician known for his accomplishments in both jazz and classical music.
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Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
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Pbs Learning Media: Country Music in u.s. Society: Interactive Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive timeline provides examples of how the history of country music can be tied to important events in U.S. history.
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Pbs Learning Media: Muhammad Ali's Activism and Moral Courage

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will analyze the ways Muhammad Ali protested the Vietnam War draft and racial inequity in America, and also how the American public responded. Students will examine how public perception of Ali's war resistance...

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