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National Constitution Center

American Treasures

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Just how long did it take the framers to write the Constitution? What role did the drafting process play? Scholars examine various drafts from the Constitutional Convention to gain a better understanding of its formation. Interactive...
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The Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve Board: Structural Changes in the Economy and Financial Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a speech given by Alan Greenspan December 5, 2000. It discusses the economic changes the United States had undergone in the 1990s. The reading is sophisticated, but some of the information is written to be accessible to...
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Address to the Un on Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the United Nations General Assembly on climate change on September 24, 2007.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

Univ. Of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era: Diversity in the Changing State

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore original images depicting scenes of ethnic diversity in California during the Gold Rush years.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Changing Workplace

For Students 9th - 10th
Original photos depicting the rise of industry and the transformation of the American workplace.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Conceptual Change: How New Ideas Take Root

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Develop a more nuanced understanding of how student ideas are formed both in and outside of the classroom. By understanding the student's misconceptions on scientific ideas, you can better structure your lesson to be more effective. This...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
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Brown University

World War Ii: Diversity in American Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed and comprehensive picture of the social changes and events in the United States during World War II. Includes legislation and its effects, race riots, the position of women in the work force, African Americans and job...
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address: Draft & Final

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the texts of Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address delivered March 4, 1861, in New York, NY. It includes four PDF files: the Forward, the Original Draft, Editorial Changes, and the Final Draft.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: How to Change a Frog Into a Prince

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, the author uses the "Frog and Prince" allusion to send a message about raising boys to turn into wonderful men.
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Council of Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations: Obama Moves on Climate Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
This interview with YVo de Boer the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change provides analysis on the Obama Administration's efforts to align U.S. policy with international agreements and efforts to address...
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Other

Women and Economic Participation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a keynote address at a conference primarily on women and economic development in New Zealand. However, the same issues and themes are relevant in a broader exploration of current trends and changing roles of women in society.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: World War Ii: American Homefront: From Homemaker to Shipbuilder

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of how World War II changed the lives of not just the soldiers, but also the people on the homefront. Find out how their daily life changed, and how they helped in the war effort. Includes many photos, questions to think...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Volume Iii: Community

For Students 9th - 10th
Series of 10 primary resources explores African American identity from 1917 to 1968, examining the changing notions of identity and affects on the definition of African American community.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Housing Amendments of 1955

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the comments made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower upon the signing of the Housing Amendments of 1955. This act dealt with urban renewal and changes in basic housing law.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: New York City Subway Posters

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Automobile

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Photographs of the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
An online collection of historical and archival photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company that show American life, industry, agriculture, and more from this period of rapid change.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era: Murder and Mayhem

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source materials and informational text that looks at law and order in the "wild west" of California, identifying changing ethnicity in a growing population seeking gold and other resources.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Rise of Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source photographs depicting new technologies and communications at the turn of the 20th century and how lives changed as a result.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

Univ. Of California: Calisphere: Great Depression: Everyday Life in Hard Times

For Students 9th - 10th
Original photos that look at housing, employment, and unemployment during the hard times of the Great Depression and the changing role of the federal government with the New Deal.
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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 source documents on how the political relationship between the colonies and Great Britain changed from 1690 to 1763 and how the colonists responded.
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US National Archives

Our Documents: Civil Rights Act (1964)

For Students 9th - 10th
Find an image of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964. Read a brief description of how this life-changing legislation came to be.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Machine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Primary resource material on the way innovatons and machines have modernized and changed America in the 1920s and beyond.

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