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Pbs: Portrait of a Black Revolutionary War Sailor

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site features the image of a black seaman with a brief description.
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Pbs: The Civil War, Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can take digital primary source images and using a step-by-step tutorial create an online movie telling a story about the Civil War.
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Pbs Teachers: Vietnam War (History Teaching Activity)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that helps students explore the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective. Students will consider how Vietnam's government teaches today's youth about the war and what Vietnamese students know about the conflict. Students can...
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Pbs News Hour: The Cost of the War in Iraq (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for examining the projected costs of war, both short-term and long-term costs as of 2003, and for identifying how war funds are spent. Students will gain understanding of the logistics of war and the nuances of creating a budget.
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Pbs: The War: African Americans in World War Ii [Pdf] [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson plans and activities based on Ken Burns' film, "The War." Insight into the experiences of African Americans during the World War 11 period; from the homefront to segregation in the military to the Double V campaign. Links to video...
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Pbs: Battlefield Vietnam: Air War

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS Battlefield Vietnam site describes the airplanes used by the U.S. to carry out the air war in Vietnam.
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Pbs News Hour: Teaching the Iraq War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a series of lesson plans that allow students to understand a variety of events and themes connected to the war in Iraq in 2003. Provides step by step instructions and access to required materials.
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Pbs News Hour Extra: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War Fraught With Emotion

For Students 9th - 10th
Article examines the emotions brought to light due to the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War and the deep cultural divisions that continue across the U.S. to this day. A classroom activity and student worksheet can provide good...
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Pbs Teachers: War Feels Like War: Journalism in War Time (Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Assess a lesson plan that revolves around the role of journalists in a democracy, especially considering the challenges and ethics of reporting from a war zone. Should broaden student understanding of Thomas Jefferson's ideal of an...
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Pbs Teachers: Death of Capt. Waskow (Lesson in the Journalism of Ernie Pyle)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that focuses on Ernie Pyle's famous column entitled "The Death of Captain Waskow," in which learners experience the human cost of war by examining a primary source document.
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Pbs: Argentina History Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a comprehensive timeline from PBS of Argentine history involving the military takeovers in the latter part of the 20th century. Also includes recent efforts to bring Argentina back to civilian rule after the Falkland Island...
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Pbs Teachers: Choices in War: What Would You Save First? (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for examining instances of lawlessness, specifically looting, as a result of war.
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Pbs: American Experience: Eisenhower Foreign Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS American Experience site summarizes the foreign policies set in place and carried out by the Eisenhower Administration.
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Pbs News Hour: The Ethics of Embedded Journalists (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Directions for helping learners identify the ethical problems and issues that confront embedded reporters, their editors, and their television networks and for discussing the "picture" of war that embedded journalists paint.
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Pbs News Hour: Iraq's Latest Strategy: Suicide Attacks (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for examining the motivations and personal beliefs of suicide bombers. Students discuss the impact that suicide attacks have on public support for a war and the effectiveness of military tactics to counter them. (March, 2003)
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Pbs: War of the Currents

For Students 9th - 10th
Read here about the industrial "war" that took place between the patents on alternating and direct current.
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Pbs Learning Media: New War

For Students 9th - 10th
How does war, with today's technology, differ from the wars in the past where soldiers fought another face-to-face?
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Pbs Teachers: Gospel Music Meets a Wide Audience (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that identifies some of the leading figures in post-World War II gospel music. Students compare the differences in style and approach of several gospel musicians and analyze how music has different meanings in different social...
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Pbs Teachers: Civil Liberties in Wartime (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the rights and responsibilities of a citizen in a democratic system and those guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Consider the conditions of war and debate the pros and cons of the wartime curtailment of civil liberties.
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Pbs Teachers: American Photography: A Century of Images (Teacher's Guide)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Access five lesson plans developed for this PBS documentary series on twentieth-century American photography. Lessons encompass research, discussion, a variety of hands-on activities, and extensions that will help students examine...
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Pbs the West: The Battle of the Little Bighorn

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS is an excerpt from an 1893 book "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery which offers an eyewitness account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Lakota Chief Red Horse.
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Pbs the West: Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS site offers excerpts from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891 on the events of the Massare at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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Pbs: The Battle of Passchendaele

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers information on the third battle of Ypres. The battle is a case of weather affecting the outcome of a battle.
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Pbs Teachers: Water Use: Tragedy in the Owens River Valley

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Map the geographical area of a watershed, evaluate watershed use and describe land use practices of the people within one. Investigate the events surrounding the war over the Owens River in California at the turn of the 20th century.

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