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State Library-Florida

Florida Memory: Zora Neale Hurston and the Wpa in Florida

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston and her experiences in Florida while working on the WPA. Includes a complete piece by Hurston entitled "Turpentine," photos and lesson plans.
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: From Political Liberty to Social Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
In the early stages of the new nation's government the members of Congress sought to protect the citizens from political tyranny. Social freedoms emerged in the twentieth century when FDR begged for economic protection of U.S. citizens.
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Stanford University

Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A structured academic controversy opportunity to peruse and analyze documents to ignite a debate over the success or failure of the New Deal.
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: Josephus Daniels

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this detailed biography of Daniels, who is known for serving as Secretary of the Navy under Wilson's administration.
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Other

Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1940 1949

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a walk through this part of American history surrounding World War II. Each section includes cultural history of the time, with links pertaining to art and architecture, books and literature, education, fads and fashion, historic...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii

For Teachers 11th
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Political Influences of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Given primary and secondary sources of information about selected New Deal measures (e.g., the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps or the passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act), students will analyze how these measures...
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US Senate

Historical Minutes: An Era of Investigations: 1921 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
Read these series of essays written by U.S. Senate historians that detail important events and people during the era of investigations in the Senate just before the Great Depression and continuing up to the entrance to World War II. The...
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: Fsa Photographers

For Students 9th - 10th
What a fabulous resource documenting the lives of farmers across the country during the Great Depression. Talented photographers, working for the Farm Security Administration, were sent out to take pictures, which were then published in...
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Other

Eh.net: Rural Electrification Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
A very interesting assessment of the success of the Rural Electrication Admininstration in bringing electricity to rural areas that private utilities had been unwilling to service. Read about the results in terms of needed jobs in the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: There Is No Cure for Polio

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the polio epidemic and vaccine.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Baseball on the World War I Homefront

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will begin to learn about the changes that occurred on the American homefront because of World War I by analyzing correspondence from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and Boston Red Sox Owner and President...
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US National Archives

Nara: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Archives and Records Administration, provides this article with historic photographs of people and places in the 1930s.
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most controversial presidents since Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, learn more than just the basic facts in this article about Richard M. Nixon's presidency.
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Digital History

Digital History: Bonus Army

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the government's reaction to the unemployed World War I veterans who comprised the Bonus Army encamped in Washington, D.C. See what the the veterans were asking for, and see how their treatment assured the election of Franklin...
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Digital History

Digital History: Neutrality and the Lusitania [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
American neutrality in World War I was sorely tested with the attack and sinking of the passenger ship, Luisitania. Read information about the attack and find conflicting reactions by Franklin Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan about...
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Development of Polio Vaccines

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by Access Excellence. Beginning with a good description of the symptoms and spreading of polio, as well as information on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's battle with polio, this article addresses the development of...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Confronting Work Place Discrimination on the World War Ii Home Front

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will analyze primary sources and evaluate the degree to which they demonstrate Civil Rights advances following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1941 Executive Order providing equal opportunity in defense...
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US Department of State

Biographies of Secretaries of State: Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., 1900 1949

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Edward Stettinius, Jr. whe served as Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, overseaing the end of World War II and the creation of the United Nations.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Supreme Court: Biographies of the Robes: Felix Frankfurter

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS online resource for learning biographical details about the life and career of Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939.
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Other

Biographies: Harry S. Truman

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief, but comprehensive look at the Truman administration covers Truman's actions from the time he took office upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt to his decision not to run in the election of 1952.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Herblock's Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
Features an online exhibition of the presidential political cartoons of Herbert Block being shown at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Contains drawings from Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton which can be viewed by...

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