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Boston College

Boston College: 19th and 20th Century Art Links

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains many different art styles including symbolism. Found about 1/3 down the page, symbolist artists are listed. Click on each link for more information.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: On the Move: The Transportation Revolution

For Students 11th - 12th
By reading this section of a chapter on "Industrial Transformation in the North", students will learn about the development of improved methods of nineteenth-century domestic transportation and identify the ways in which roads, canals,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: African American Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
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Library of Congress

Loc: "California as I Saw It"

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital collection features first-person accounts from the time of the Gold Rush and California statehood through the turn of the twentieth century. Presents detailed information about localities and people important to the state during...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Foreign Eyes

For Students 9th - 10th
Two related learning modules consider Western perspectives on the Middle East, beginning with the Persian invasions of Greece (fifth century BC) and moving forward into the present time. Useful background on the history of wartime and...
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Other

Time Toast: Famous Inventions

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive timeline featuring inventions discovered between the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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National Humanities Center

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, audio, and video material-that explore how African Americans created group and individual identities in the late-nineteenth century.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The African American Mosaic: Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress presents a collection of primary source material on the beginnings of the American Colonization Society and efforts of free blacks to return to Liberia during the Nineteenth Century.
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Harvard University

Harvard University Library: Open Collections: Immigration to the u.s.,1789 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
Find books, pamphlets, photographs, maps, and manuscripts about immigration to the United States, principally nineteenth-century immigration. With a timeline of key dates in U.S. immigration history and a browsable list of search themes...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website features the full text of Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim." A brief summary of the novel is also included as well as a link to Bibiomania's main Kipling page that features other full-text works by this nineteenth...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Stalky and Company" by Kipling (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website provides the full text of Rudyard Kipling's novel, "Stalky and Company." A link to Bibiomania's main Kipling page features other full text works by this nineteenth century British author.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Full Text of Treasure Island

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania site contains the full text of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island." A brief but factual summary for this archetypal nineteenth century "ripping yarn" is provided.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Collections Online: French Oil Sketches

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 19 images of French oil sketches painted during the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries that are part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections. Click on each title to see an enlarged image and...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Virtual Vaudeville

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience vaudeville in pictures, sound, and animation, with a selection of supporting primary-source documents, such as period newspaper clippings and historical photographs. The jewels of the site, however, are two performance...
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University of Washington

Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper & Periodical Index

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Covering newspapers, magazines, monographs, theses, dissertations and other material, this index goes back as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Very useful for locating primary source material on the Pacific Northwest region.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Playing Historical Detective

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students become detectives, reading and analyzing documents and artifacts as clues to the life of a nineteenth century woman, Annie Steel. The students then use various materials to create a series of collages.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Georges Seurat: The Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
A full-featured exhibition of the drawings of nineteenth-century French master Georges Seurat. Includes upclose looks at the artist's sketchbooks-rare primary source documents-and details about his subject choices and working methods....
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: William M. Harnett

For Students 9th - 10th
View nineteenth-century American trompe o'eil still life "For Sunday's Dinner" by William Harnett, with context and analysis.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Lewis in Philadelphia

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource examines Philadelphia at the start of the nineteenth century when Meriwether Lewis arrived there in 1802.
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Other

History and Discovery of Cinematography

For Students 9th - 10th
Self-published textbook, by film historian Paul Burns, on the history of filmmaking. Covers pre-cinematic technologies and events and ends with the discovery of motion pictures in the late nineteenth century.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit of the life and work of nineteenth-century American marine artist William Bradford, whose lifelong interest in the sea led him north from New Bedford to Labrador and to the Arctic Ocean. See examples of Bradford's...
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Wake Forest University: Japan: A Meteoric Rise

For Students 9th - 10th
In this excerpt from a larger work on industrialization in the non-Western world, find a detailed history of late nineteenth-century Japan, the period during which Japan was forced out of isolation.
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Other

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
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Other

European Library: Napoleonic Wars: 1799 1815 (French)

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitized collection of primary source materials (texts, maps, and illustrations) tells the story of the wars Napoleon fought in the early nineteenth century to extend French power across Europe. Primarily in French.

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