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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: Hazard (Minesweeper)

For Students 9th - 10th
A ship located in Omaha's Freedom Park.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of Father Flanagan's original boy's home.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: J. Sterling Morton House

For Students 9th - 10th
The home J. Sterling Morton and the National Arbor Day Foundation.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: Willa Cather House

For Students 9th - 10th
Author Willa Cather's childhood home.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: Fort Atkinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Site of the original Council Bluffs.
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Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
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Brigham Young University

World War I Document Archive: Senator Norris Opposes u.s. Entry Into the War

For Students 9th - 10th
The Progressive Republican from Nebraska, Senator George William Norris (1861-1944) was among the handful of eminent politicians of the day to oppose US entry into the Great War. In this speech to the Senate, he made his reasons clear....
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University of Missouri

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Marsh v Chambers, u.s. Supreme Court

For Students 9th - 10th
Chief Justice Burger's majority opinion in the case of MARSH vs. CHAMBERS, 463 U.S. 783 (1983). The case dealt with whether an opening prayer in the Nebraska Legislature violated the First Amendment.
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Other

Gustavus University: Willa Cather Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive collection of publications by and about Cather, including some of her most impressive quotes from numerous sources. Features detailed biographical information and specific Nebraska historical information related to the...
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An all-inclusive teacher's resource for teaching American history presented as a project of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Educators will find a plethora of lesson plans, multi-media, teaching tools, learning modules, and primary...
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Kansas Historical Society

Willing to Die for Freedom: Look Back at Kansas Territory

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit teaches you about "Bleeding Kansas." Follow the hyperlinks to obtain a wealth of information.
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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Northern Illinois University provides audio, visual, and text documents about Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years. You can search historical themes that relate to Lincoln and a biography of Lincoln. The site offers both primary and...
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University of Nebraska

Railroads and the Making of Modern America: Slavery and Southern Railroads

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source materials that focus on how the railroad companies supported the slavery system through slave labor, slave ownership, and as a transportation system for the slave market in the South. Content includes contracts, company...
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US National Archives

Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
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PBS

Pbs: Bleeding Kansas 1853 1861

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details events surrounding the era known as "Bleeding Kansas" due to the conflict surrounding slavery in what is now Kansas.
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American Anthropological Association: 1800 1850s: Expansion of Slavery in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the political events prior to the Civil War as the United States expanded its territories to include new states and conflicts arose over the issue of slavery.
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Crane Meadows Nature Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This 250 acre center is located by the Platte River near Grand Island. There are 2 different habitats in this center. You can see wood ducks, turtles, frogs, deer turkey and coyote.
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US Capitol Visitor Center

U.s. Capitol Visitor Center: 1820 1861: Holding the Union Together

For Students 9th - 10th
American history from 1820-1861 is interwoven with the history of the Capitol as it was expanded to accommodate a growing government body. A timeline of significant events in the debates over slavery, the addition of free and slave...
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White House Historical Association

White House Historical Association: Thence Forward, and Forever Free

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Informational text and lesson plan for grades 9-12 tracing Abraham Lincoln's battle against slavery from the time he was in the Illinois State Legislature through his presidency and writing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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University of Maryland

Voices of Democracy: Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" (16 June 1858)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the "House Divided" speech that Lincoln delivered on June 16, 1858, as he accepted the Republican nomination for the U.S.Senate seat from Illinois that was held by Stephen A. Douglas. This speech exemplifies...
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US Department of State

Bureau of International Information Programs: History Outline: Sectionalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews several conditions of American society that sowed the seeds of civil war, particularly slavery and sectional conflict.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 4: A House Divided

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines how the United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy, became the destination for many new immigrants, and encouraged migration to the Pacific...
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University of Nebraska

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historic Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ashfall Fossil Beds are located in Nebraska. Much of the research done there is conducted by scientists from the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska State Museum. The history, geology and paleontology of the site are described....

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