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Dpla: The Freedmen's Bureau
This collection of documents, images, and readings from the era give an overview of the work done by the Freedmen's Bureau and the racial and political struggles the agency faced during the Reconstruction Era. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Fifteenth Amendment
The documents, images, photographs, and articles in this set explore the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, responses to it across the United States, and its long-term impact on the struggle for equal voting rights. Includes a teaching...
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Dpla: American Imperialism: The Spanish American War
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the Spanish-American War. Review the sources in this set to gain insight into the motivations for US engagement. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Scopes Trial
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the Scopes Monkey Trial. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Invention of the Telephone
This primary source set uses physical objects, documents, photographs, and drawings to tell the story of the invention of the telephone and its transformative impact on modern-day communication. Includes a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Voting Rights Act of 1965
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Second Ku Klux Klan and the Birth of a Nation
Primary source collection explores the Ku Klux Klan. Includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War
The sources in this primary set document Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
This set of primary sources uses photos, advertisements, maps, and other documents to shed light on that struggle toward the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: Women in the Civil War
This primary source set uses documents, illustrations, and portraits to explore the different roles women took in the Civil War and how it affected different groups of women differently. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Dpla: The New Woman
This primary source set illustrates the New Woman movement's ideals, the women who embraced it, and a society made uncomfortable by this seismic shift in the roles of men and women.
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Dpla: American Imperialism: Negro League Baseball
In this primary source set, students will view original photographs, listen to oral history recordings, and read historical texts to gain a better understanding of the lives and experiences of Negro League baseball players. Includes...
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Dpla: World War Ii's Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa
The sources in this primary set document Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Early Chinese Immigration to the Us
This set of resources provides photos, documents, and oral histories that help tell the story of this early period of Chinese immigration to the United States. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust
This primary source set includes images, paintings, excerpts, and maps relating to concentration camps. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism
The illustrations, photographs, cartoons, and posters arranged in this primary source set trace the origins of yellow journalism. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: Eugenics Movement in the United States
This primary source set explores the eugenics movement to help readers analyze how racism, sexism, classism, and ableism influenced eugenics laws and programs in the United States. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture
This primary source set includes images of Wright's work, excerpts from his writings and speeches, information about his influences, and commentaries on his work. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, and promotional materials to explore the events of the Delano Grape Strike and the formation of the United Farm Workers. Teaching guide included.
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Dpla: Mormon Migration
The sources in this set help place the Mormon migration in geographic, political, religious, and cultural contexts, including other westward movement motivated by Manifest Destiny.
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Dpla: The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age
The resources here, including letters, photographs, official documents, and film, represent various aspects and visions of the Atomic Age.
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Dpla: Postwar Rise of the Suburbs
Primary source documents include photographs, documents, cartoons, and advertisements that help to paint a picture of this unique time and place in American history.
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Dpla: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
This primary source set offers readers a greater understanding of Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Dpla: Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains
The resources here, including letters, photographs, official documents, and maps, represent the exodus of African Americans from the South to the Great Plains in the late 1800s.