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Neh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story GraphicNeh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story Graphic
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Neh: Tenement Museum: Your Story, Our Story

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This online museum features a digital archive. Students, and anyone around the United States, are encouraged to upload images of family objects and their stories. American immigration and migration are the foci for this archive.

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immigration, migration

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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