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Turin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy
A multimedia research tool devoted to the only Worls's Fair ever held in Italy. Turin 1911 discusses the ideological foundations of the World's Fair's phenomenom as a whole.
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The Thomas Mac Greevy Archive
Interdisciplinary research project that explores the life, writings, and relationships of the Irish poet and critic, Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967).
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The Tibetan and Himalayan Library: Collected Tantras of the Ancients
The Tibetan Buddhist Canon is one of the three most important canons of Buddhist and religious literature in the world. Here you will find a complete catalog of the controversial collection of esoteric texts, compiling several of the...
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The Moscow News Weekly
News from Moscow based on materials from the Russian language newspapers Moskovskiye Novosti, Vremya MN, and SPORTclub.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Military Science: Battle of Monmouth
This page begins with a summary of the history behind the battle and goes on to discuss key events in detail with links to maps and leaders in the war along with the military strategy involved.
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Wake Forest University: The Seclusion of Japan
General thoughts on the efforts of Tokugawa officials to keep Japan free of outside influence, in particular, on the acts of 1635(Closed Country Edict) and 1639 (Exclusion of the Portugese).
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Wake Forest University: Japan: A Meteoric Rise
In this excerpt from a larger work on industrialization in the non-Western world, find a detailed history of late nineteenth-century Japan, the period during which Japan was forced out of isolation.
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Case Western Reserve University: Introduction to Materials Engineering
A curriculum resource from an introduction to materials course taught at Case Western Reserve University. Includes teaching overheads, homework assignments, and exams.
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The American Society of Primatologists
The American Society of Primatologists is an educational and scientific organization that aims to understand non-human primates and to facilitate the exchange of information about them.
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Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago
This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...
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Bringing History Home: Environmental History
This 2nd grade unit introduces children to the history of environmental protection in the U.S. Beginning with three types of environment - mountain, grass plain and forest - the lessons explore some of the natural resources found in...
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Bringing History Home: Immigration History
This 2nd grade unit invites children to learn their ancestors' native countries of origin. The take-home page for family ancestry offers several alternatives to citing a specific family immigration history. Studying immigration provides...
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Bringing History Home: Industrialization History
This 3rd grade unit introduces the history of industrialization in the United States in the late 19th century. The development of mechanization and assembly line processes, reliance on unskilled labor, and geographic concentration of...
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Bringing History Home: The Progressive Era
In this 4th grade unit, learners study how citizens and government of the early 20th century sought solutions to problems that accompanied immigration and industrialization. By focusing on child labor, factory working conditions and...
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Bringing History Home: The Great Depression
This 4th grade unit introduces basic concepts of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and to historical analysis processes. Following a trade book and video documentary overview of the 1920s and 1930s, young scholars examine photos,...
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Bringing History Home: Native American History
This 5th grade unit is an introduction to Native American history in the 19th and 20th centuries. The lessons focus on U.S. government policies that have determined the official relationship between the government and Native American...
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Bringing History Home: Ww Ii Home Front
In this 5th grade unit, students study the World War II home front using primary sources. After an introduction to the origins of the war, they study the effects of the war on the U.S. economy; citizen participation in the war effort...
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Native Peoples of North America: Agricultural Societies in Pre European Times
A good introduction to the three major Native American cultures in the Southwest prior to European contact. Find information about the Mogollon, Anasazi, and Hohokam cultures. Read how they influenced each other, and what was unique...
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Korean War Commemoration: Douglas Mac Arthur
This biography covers the life of Douglas MacArthur. It explores his military career from his attendance at West Point in 1899 through his military successes in World War II to his being relieved of his command in Korea.
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Massachusetts Studies Project: African Americans in Massachusetts
The full title of this page is "African Americans in Massachusetts: Case Studies of Desegregation in 19th Century Nantucket and Boston." It features a timeline that covers the mid-19th century cases in Nantucket and Boston concerning the...
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Uss Constitution Museum: All Hands on Deck!
This thematic unit uses USS Constitution (nicknamed 'Old Ironsides') as a vehicle to explore a wide range of disciplines including language arts, reading, math, science, art, and social studies. Skills covered in the unit include...
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Washington Secretary of State
This resource offers necessary as well as informative facts on Washington: Elections and voting, international trade, corporations, news releases, state flag, state seal, and current news.
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Rice Univ.: The Wondering Minstrels Theodore Roethke
At this Rice University site, read Roethke's poem "The Meadow Mouse". Also, read a short critque of this poem and a biography of Roethke.
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Rice Univ.: The Wondering Minstrels on Richard Wilbur
Read Richard Wilbur's poem "In the Smoking Car." Read a critique on this poem and Wilbur's biography.