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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Turning the Pages Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of science at this wonderful resource that provides virtual books in the biomedical sciences field for viewing at home. These are books and manuscripts that are hundreds of years old and would not be accessible...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Mc Ardle Notebooks: Dawn at the Alamo

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Arthur McArdle's "Dawn at the Alamo" notebook is "packed with letters, notes, and photographs," which McArdle used when researching for his well-known painting recording this important moment in Texas history. Browse the pages to...
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Other

Library of Congress: Civil War Faces

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of well over 1,000 photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers from the Civil War, as well as some family members. Each photo is accompanied by a caption. Click on the 'Show more' link at the top of the page for additional...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: An Inspector Calls

For Students 9th - 10th
Find contextual treasures from production posters and programs to J.B. Priestley's scrapbook.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Gilded and the Gritty: 1870 1912: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Nine primary source resources describing the way people thought about progress during the Gilded Age, 1870-1912. Includes guided reading, links to supplemental material, and timeline.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1763

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource material on the growth of British colonies on the east coast of the New World between 1690 and 1763.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1763

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource material on the economies of the New England colonies between 1690 and 1763.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1730

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource material on the ideas, scientific and religious, of the colonial period from 1690 to 1730.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Predicaments of Early Republican Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Primary resource material focusses on predicaments in early American history. Students read primary source text to answer questions surrounding the nature of society following the American Revolution, learning about the hopes and fears...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Living the Revolution: America, 1789 1820: Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource material on post-Revolution America, 1789-1820, which explores the topic of religion and national identity in the early republic. Includes questions for discussion and links to supplemental material.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: African American Identity: Volume Iii, 1917 1968: Segregation

For Students 9th - 10th
Series of nine primary resources on African American identity explores the concept of segregation and how it was experienced through the years 1917-1968. Inlcudes discussion questions, notes and links to supplemental resources.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Volume Iii: 1917 1968: Overcome?

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary resource material explores the outcome of civil rights protests and the Civil Rights Movement and examines what remains yet to overcome. Links to supplemental materials, discussions questions and notes.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: The Yellow Fever

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Some topics explored are Benjamin Rush, the Santo Domingan influence, and background information on the yellow fever. Additional resources include web pages, references, and...
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Tuberculosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate tuberculosis in Europe and North America. Some topics explored are causes, diagnosis, and the sanatoria movement. Additional resources include web pages, manuscripts, references, and publications.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Syphilis

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate syphilis. Some topics explored are origins, diagnosis, and treatments of syphilis. Additional resources include web pages, references, and publications.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Spanish Influenza

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate Spanish influenza in North America. Some topics explored are reactions, responses, and legacies of Spanish influenza. Additional resources include web pages, manuscripts, references, and publications.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Boston Smallpox Epidemic

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the Boston smallpox epidemic that occurred in 1721. Resources include web pages, references, and publications.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: The Great Plague of London

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the Great Plague of London that occurred in 1665. Some topics explored are the Great Plague in fictional literature, Samuel Pepys, and William Boghurst. Additional resources include web pages, references, and...
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Cholera Epidemic

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate cholera epidemics in the 19th century. Some topics explored are causes and treatments of cholera. Additional resources include web pages, manuscripts, references, and publications.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Freedom: Charles W. Chesnutt: African American Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
Short story that explores the cultural and linguistic resources that sustained African Americans in the first years of freedom. This resource focuses on Charles Chesnutt and the influence he achieved by writing about race for a white...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Culture, Making of African American Identity: Vol. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter, an interview, and film clips that illustrate cultural expressions of African American identity in the late-nineteenth century. Culture is explored during the turn of the 20th century within this resource and is supported by...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Education, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapters and photographs in which Booker T. Washington promotes manual education for blacks. In this resource, Washington makes his case for the practical, trades-based education he installed at the Tuskegee Institute.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.

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