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Pbs: Simon Schama: The Story of the Jews: Explore the Diaspora: Visual Timeline
A timeline beginning in 587 B.C.E. when the Jews are exiled into Babylonia through persecution under the Roman Empire on through the Crusades, World War II up to the construction of the "Separation Wall." This thorough resource follows...
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Pbs Teachers: Conflicting Newspaper Accounts (Civil War Lesson Plan) [Pdf]
Multilayered lesson that begins with analysis of a series of photographs of the battle of Antietam and ends with writing an account of the battle in the style of a nineteenth-century war correspondent from opposing perspectives of North...
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Pbs: American Valor
A companion website to the PBS program on Medal of Honor winners. Uses newsreel and primary sources to tell the story of many of the Medal of Honor winners, starting with the Civil War.
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The War: Save Waste Fats for Explosives
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a poster from WWII aiming at recycling fat for ammunition.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: The Iraq War (Students and Teachers)
This site provides coverage of the war with Iraq written for teens. Additional content includes student voices and forums.
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Pbs: The Great War: Interactive Timeline
This site has an interactive timeline of World War I. Choose a year to see important events listed chronologically. You can click on battles and names of famous people to read accompanying thoughts of historians.
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Pbs: The War: Okinawa
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read a description of the Battle of Okinawa, last major battle of World War II in the Pacific. With links to related resources, including archive photos and series video.
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Pbs: J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 1967
This site from PBS provides biographical information about J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his involvement with the atomic bomb.
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The War: Waste Helps the Enemy
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a recycling poster created by Vanderlaan and produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
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Civil War: In the Classroom: Civil War Letters [Pdf]
A lesson plan using letters from soldiers and civilians in the Civil War to gain a greater understanding of this time in U.S. history.
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Bombers of World War Ii: Last Flight of Bomber 31
Website that chronicles the story of the search for remains of Bomber 31 that went down in Kamchatka during World War II. There is also a slide show and descriptions of several World War II bombers.
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Pbs: American Experience: Nancy Harkness Love
This site provides a detailed biography of Nancy Harkness Love, including her role in lobbying for a women's flying squadron during World War II.
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The War: Cartoon of G Is
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," find a cartoon of Bill Mauldin's duo, Willy and Joe, the representative infantrymen in his cartoons.
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The Great War: American Troops in the Trenches
Read historian David Kennedy's assessment of the American troops' impact on the course of the end of World War I.
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Pbs: Independent Lens: Conscience and the Constitution
Would you accept being drafted into military service if your family was being held in an internment camp? That was the question on many a Japanese American's mind during World War 2. Explore the stories of those who resisted service and...
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Pbs/people's Century: Master Race
A detailed description of the program, "People's Century: Master Race -- Nazism Overtakes German Society," from PBS.
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Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.
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Pbs: American Masters: George Lucas
Informative page on the life of "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," director, George Lucas.
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Pbs American Experience: How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Fought Nazi Spies
For 50 years, Elizebeth Friedman's contributions to WWII intelligence were a secret. Only when all of the original intelligence reports were declassified after the turn of the twenty-first century were Friedman's true role in the war...
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Pbs: Daring to Resist
A companion website to the PBS documentary telling of three female teens who resisted the Germans and the Holocaust.
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Pbs: Vietnam: Stories Since the War
A collection of personal oral histories presented from those who remember or experienced the Vietnam War Era. From PBS.
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Pbs Learning Media: u.s. Grant: Warrior Biography: Abraham Lincoln
A profile of Abraham Lincoln's life leading up to and during his professional career as President of the United States during the Civil War.
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Pbs: Bombing Nazi Dams
It was 1943, and the British were retaliating. Here is the story of the famous Lancaster bomber and the brave British pilots that tried to stop Nazi Germany.
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Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...