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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age it started.
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Africans in America: Revolution: The Book of Negroes 1783

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at the compiling of the Book of Negroes, a register of those whom the British promised freedom during the course of the Revolutionary War. Find out why this was a component of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. From PBS.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to compare and explore the relationships between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection uses primary sources to explore the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the American Abolitionist Movement.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Beloved by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Truth, Justice, and the Superhero Comic Book

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the emergence of superhero comic books.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Impact of Television on News Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.
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Pbs Learning Media: Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to compare American responses to Pearl Harbor and September 11.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Rise of Italian Fascism and Its Influence on Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the rise of Italian Fascism and its impact.
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Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Reconstruction Amendments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive instructional activity, students will understand and explain the key provisions of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Pbs: They Drew Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the PBS documentary on the military and civilian artists who captured WW II in art at their personal peril.
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Pbs: Good War & Those Who Refused to Fight It

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion website to the documentary on those pacifists during WW II who refused to fight in the war and the movements that supported them.
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Pbs: Children of the Camps: The Documentary

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website for PBS documentary that tells the stories of six Japanese Americans who were interned as children during World War II.
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Pbs Teachers: The Penny Press, Walt Whitman and the War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the onset, popularity and influence of mass-circulation newspapers in the early 19th century, and explore their impact on the war with Mexico. Create a short news article using the Penny Press style.
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Pbs: American Experience: Vietnam Weapons of War

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site clearly describes what each side had in its arsenal of weapons during the Vietnam War.
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Pbs: American Experience: Adolf Hitler (1889 1945)

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS publishes this biographical essay of Adolf Hitler, exploring his life as the fourth son of a customs official through his role as dictator of Germany.
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Pbs: Reporting America at War

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Companion website to the PBS documentary that traces the role of media, journalists and photojournalists in reporting America at war.

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