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Dpla: Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources here, including cartoons, photographs, paintings, and posters, represent both events in order to compare them.
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Dpla: The Great Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration of African Americans to the Northern and Midwestern states in the early 1900s. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Feeding the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Food Stamp Program started in 1939 to assist those living below poverty levels. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Dpla: Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources here, including letters, lithographs, official documents, and maps, document the Revolutionary War battles of Saratoga and Valley Forge.
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Dpla: The American Whaling Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources here, including artifacts, photographs, official documents, and maps, represent the American whaling industry. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources here, including letters, photographs, posters, and maps, represent the Indian Reorganization Act. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: 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 influence on Europe including Adolf Hitler. Set includes an overview, primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
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Dpla: Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 10th
From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time.
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Dpla: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of images, letters, and maps provides information about the expedition leaders, the president that made the expedition possible, and the people they encountered along the way.
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Dpla: The Panama Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set includes photographs, documents, maps, and footage that can be used to explore the stories of environmental issues, political struggle, and human labor that built the Panama Canal.
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Dpla: World War I: America Heads to War

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document explore the United States' brief but eventful involvement in World War I. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: Ida B. Wells and Anti Lynching Activism

For Students 9th - 10th
The documents and images in this primary source set follow the development of Ida B. Wells' career as a journalist and activist and also represent the practice of lynching that she dedicated her career to fighting against.
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Dpla: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Includes teaching guide.
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Dpla: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses photographs, ephemera, political cartoons, video clips, and other documents to explore the women's rights activism inspired by the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Dpla: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set includes photographs, documents, and news footage that provide context for the challenges characters face in the play.
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Dpla: The Hudson River School

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents tell the story of the Hudson River School founded by artist Thomas Cole.
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Dpla: Spanish Missions in California

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, and artwork to tell the story of the development and impact of Spanish missions in California during the Mission period.
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Dpla: Road to Revolution: 1763 1776

For Students 9th - 10th
This set of sources focuses on a selection of events, legislation, and perspectives from both sides during this time period. The documents, images, and artifacts help the student-historian understand the process of going from loyal...
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Dpla: The American Indian Movement, 1968 1978

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, videos, and news stories to tell the story of the first decade of the American Indian Movement.
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Dpla: The Black Power Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set addresses the representations of the Black Power Movement through artifacts from the era, such as sermons, photographs, drawings, FBI investigations, and political manifestos.
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Dpla: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

For Students 9th - 10th
The primary sources in this set reflect blackface minstrelsy after the American Civil War.
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Dpla: The Homestead Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the Homestead Strike.