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Library of Congress

Loc: Today in History: November 4: Election Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history of November 4, which is an election day in the United States. Includes a discussion of presidential elections in the nineteenth century, and women's struggle to obtain the right to vote.
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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States

For Students 9th - 10th
Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Draft Elizabeth Cady Stanton's the Woman's Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible and summarizing text from Library of Congress.
Website
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the Progressive period in America and the reform movements that accompanied it. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student oriented activities, and a timeline of key events from...
Primary
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Progressive Platform of 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the document outlining the platform of the Bull Moose Party. It explains why it has become a third-party contender and discusses the many progressive planks of the party for the election of 1912. It interestingly advocated a single...
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Radical Reconstruction, 1867 1872

For Students 11th - 12th
This section explains the purpose of the second phase of Reconstruction and some of the key legislation put forward by Congress, describes the impeachment of President Johnson, and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth...
Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Talk Socratically

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson you will be using the Socratic Seminar Instructional Method. The Socratic Seminar is a great way to get young scholars involved. Socratic seminars are useful in that they teach students to make a point through using the...
PPT
Other

Object of History: The Voting Machine (Voting Technology in 1900)

For Students 9th - 10th
Written and audio explanation of the history of voting and the invention of the voting machine. Includes a photo of the 1898 Standard Voting Machine and other objects that relate to the voting process.
Primary
Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The United States in World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses what triggered World War I, why the United States joined the war, and the impact the war had on life in the United States. Includes questions for students at end.
Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: American Treasures: Susan B. Anthony, Defendant

For Students 9th - 10th
Susan B. Anthony's own copy of her trial proceedings. Content includes a description of the exhibit, as well as many pictures.
Unit Plan
The History Place

The History Place: Great Speeches Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a good selection of historical and relatively modern speeches from many English-speaking countries. Each speech is set up in its historic context. Many are available with audio links.
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Emma Goldman (1869 1940)

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting article describing the life of well-known Jewish anarchist, Emma Goldman, who was deported to Russia during the Red Scare.
Article
Social Studies for Kids

Social Studies for Kids: Frederick Douglass: Great Foe of Slavery

For Students 1st - 5th
One of the most important Black Americans in the history of the country was Frederick Douglass. Find out more about this outspoken foe of slavery.
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Curated OER

The History Place: On Women's Right to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The History Place, you can read online Susan B. Anthony's speech given after her arrest for an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872, she was tried and fined. Read her words and her conviction on the...
Activity
Stanford University

Riverwalk Jazz: Speakeasies, Flappers, and Red Hot Jazz: Music of Prohibition

For Students 9th - 10th
Script of a radio broadcast about Prohibition and Jazz Age America comments on black market bootlegging, jazz music, speakeasies, flappers, and women`s suffrage.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Hermann the Irascible by h.h. Munro

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the anti-suffrage short story "Hermann the Irascible" by H.H. Munro set in England when women were still denied the opportunity to vote.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the timeline of the history Civil Rights in the United States including major milestones in the African-American, disabled, Native American, and women's suffrage movements.
Website
Other

Frederick Douglass Comes to Life: A Short Biography of Frederick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing a brief biography, this website includes pictures of Frederick Douglass as well as links to speeches and important quotes.
Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Douglass, Frederick

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry gives a brief overview of the inspirational life of Fredrick Douglass, abolitionist, essayist, and promoter of rights for everyone. There are references to several of his stirring essays.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: William Lloyd Garrison

For Students 9th - 10th
Photo and biographical text included in this PBS site on William Lloyd Garrison. Part of a larger site linked to the series "Africans in America". Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher resources.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.

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