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National WWII Museum

Picturing the War in the Pacific Photos, Datelines and Captions

For Students 7th - 12th
Young historians have the opportunity to see photos from the war in the Pacific and learn more about what each photo represents. Scholars use their knowledge of WWII to match dates and descriptions to real-life photos from the war. The...
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Center for History Education

Should the Colonists Have Revolted Against Great Britain?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Should the Americans have taken the plunge and revolted against Great Britain? Using documents, including the famed Common Sense and a Loyalist response, pupils conduct a lengthy investigation of the question. The interesting resource...
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Center for History Education

The Iran Hostage Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While the Iranian Hostage Crisis was a watershed moment, few history classes take on the complex series of events leading up to it. Using declassified documents, including a hostage's diary, young historians create their own reports to...
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Other

State of Wyoming: Occupational Projections 2012 to 2022 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A 562-page report on the labor market for Wyming, and the projected demand for labor in all sectors of the economy, from 2012-2022. (Published July 2013)
Primary
Atomic Archive

Atomicarchive.com: The Manhattan Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents on the Manhatten project and the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. Content includes letters to and from J. Robert Oppenheimer, written deals and agreements, internal memorandums,...
Primary
NASA

Nasa: Project Mercury a Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a chronology of Project Mercury, including information on major events leading to Project Mercury, the research and development phase of Project Mercury, and the operational phase of Project Mercury.
Primary
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Sixties Project: A Veteran Speaks Against the War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by the Sixties Project gives the text of the speech given by Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University on July 23, 1971.
Primary
Yale University

The Avalon Project: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Avalon Project, at the Yale Law School, provides the actual text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Primary
University of Pennsylvania

Project Gutenberg.: Memoirs of Aaron Burr, With Correspondence

For Students 9th - 10th
Project Gutenberg offers the complete text of Aaron Burr's correspondence online in plain text format.
Primary
Other

Napf: The Manhattan Project: Leslie R. Groves

For Students 9th - 10th
A variety of documents collected at this site from the era of the Manhattan Project involve General Leslie R. Groves. Click on those that sound interesting to put together an idea about Groves' involvement in the development of the atom...
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Fundamental Orders of 1639

For Students 9th - 10th
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School presents the full text of the Fundamental Orders of 1639, including source.
Primary
Yale University

The Avalon Project: Charles Ii's Grant of New England to the Duke of York

For Students 9th - 10th
Yale University's Avalon Project provides a transcription of Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676.
Primary
Harvard University

The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online

For Students 9th - 10th
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online is a collection of hundreds of interviews of Soviet Refugees in the years of the Cold War. The collection is comprehensive including aspects of all walks of life of these refugees...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Manuscripts From the Federal Writers' Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project used personal stories as the basis for anthologies which would form a portrait of various groups of people in America. Click link to manuscripts from the FWP, 1936-1940. You can listen...
Primary
Other

Project Gutenberg Australia: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the downloadable text for the essay "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, which describes the experience of the narrator (possibly Orwell himself) who shot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.
Primary
American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: President's Special News Conference on Coal Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1946, as the United States was recovering from World War II, coal miners struck. Read the transcript of a news conference President Harry Truman held to address this pressing economic issure.
Primary
American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Suspending Marketing Limitations on Sugar

For Students 9th - 10th
Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech from 09/11/1939 on lifting the marketing quotas on sugar production in the United States due to the outbreak of war in Europe.
Primary
Yale University

The Avalon Project: Manifesto of the Communist Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of the Communist Manifesto.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: An Essay on the East India Trade 1697

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a letter written to a lord in 1697 discussing the state of trade with the East, India's riches, and the impact of trade upon the West.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: The Bill of Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Yale's School of Law provides the text of the ten original amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
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Yale University

Avalon Project: Constitution of the United States: Article Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the text of Article II of the Constitution, the four sections of which lay out the powers and duties of the executive branch of the federal government.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: The Plan of Charles Pinckney (South Carolina)

For Students 9th - 10th
The original text of a plan presented by Charles Pinckney to The Second Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Northwest Ordinance; July 13, 1787

For Students 9th - 10th
A copy of the entire Northwest Ordinance document is given.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Treaty of Velasco

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of the public Treaty of Velasco between David G. Burnet, representing the Republic of Texas, and Santa Anna, ending the Texas Revolution.

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