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"The Most Dangerous Woman in America"
is a companion website for a film that examines the case of Typhoid Mary, a cook
who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s. The site
includes a history of quarantine, a letter Mary Mallon wrote when petitioning
the courts for her release, an examination of whether public health officials
were to blame for Mallon's behavior, & a mysterious "disease outbreak" for
students to solve. (NEH)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid
"Westpoint
in the Making of America, 1802-1918"
looks at the history of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, its
contributions to American history, & accomplishments of selected West Point
graduates. Proposed by George Washington in 1783 & created 20 years later, West
Point became an important American institution before the Civil War.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/westpoint/index.html
"Vote: The Machinery of Democracy"
looks at the history & variety of voting methods in the U.S.
- the voice vote, "party ticket" (paper ballots listing candidates from
just one party), Australian ballot, gear & lever machine, & others.
Voting reforms of the early 1900s, when the U.S. electorate doubled, are
described. Kinds of voting equipment used in counties across the U.S.
are shown on a map. Innovative design improvements are discussed.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/
"What in the
World Is That?"
examines 16 inventions: the submarine, battery radio, cotton gin,
reaper, electron microscope, telephone, gramophone, telecommunication
cable, snow gauge, ornithopter, airphibian, & others. (LOC)
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/science/flash.html
"After the Great Earthquake & Fire, 1897-1916"
provides 26 films of San Francisco from before & after the Great
Earthquake & Fire. The earthquake struck on April 18, 1906, along the San
Andreas Fault, damaging most central
California cities & killing more than 3,000 people. These films show Market
Street, Chinatown, a parade, San Francisco viewed from a balloon, & vast
devastation from the 8.3 magnitude earthquake & 3-day fire. (LOC)
memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/sfhome.html
"The Price of Freedom: Americans at War"
features a timeline of America's wars, from the Revolution to
Iraq. Watch an interactive presentation on each war -- slideshows & movies,
text & photos, & dozens of artifacts
(firearms, flags, uniforms). Read an overview of each conflict; learn about
its causes, major events, & consequences. Gain a sense of how wars have
shaped our history. (NMAH)
americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/
"World Treasures of the Library of Congress:
Beginnings"
explores the creation, heaven & earth, & the founding of civilizations, all
from the viewpoint of 50 cultures. 170 images & stories from Bali, China,
Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, India, Japan, Java, Mexico, Rome, Russia, Yoruba, & elsewhere are
organized around three questions: Where did the universe come from? How can
we explain it? How can we record our experience of it? (LOC)
www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/
"American Women: A Reference Guide"
is a "first stop" for using Library of
Congress resources to do research in the field
of American women's history. It presents some
digital items; however, it serves primarily as
a comprehensive guide to the entirety of the
Library's holdings on women's history. It
includes exhibits that feature women &
how to find women within exhibits where
they're not featured. Essays examine women as
a symbol 1590-1800, the women's suffrage
parade of 1913, & the equal rights amendment.
(LOC)
memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html
"The Dream of Flight"
presents photos, letters, & diary
excerpts from the experiments & efforts that
led to the Wright brothers' December 17, 1903,
achievement of the first sustained, powered, &
controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying
machine. The site includes a flight timeline &
examines the notion of flight as a universal
aspiration -- a desire expressed in
civilizations from classical times to the 20th
century. (LOC)
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-home.html
"After the Day of Infamy"
offers 12 hours of interviews
recorded in the days & months following the
bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than 200
individuals in cities & towns across the U.S.
Audio & transcripts of the interviews are
provided. (LOC)
memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
"National
Constitution Center"
offers lessons on the Declaration of
Independence, Bill of
Rights, electoral process, executive branch,
federal powers,
war making, First & Fifth Amendments,
freedom of speech,
Founding Fathers, jury duty, separation of
powers, & suffrage.
"Teaching with Current Events" features news
stories relating
to the Constitution, discussion starters
keyed to the news, &
perspectives by commentators & elected
officials. (NCC)
constitutioncenter.org/education/CurriculumResources/LessonPlans/
"America
on the Move"
tells how transportation changed America. A
classroom
activity guide looks at foods & families on
the move (1880s),
workers & products (1920s), early highways
(1930-40s),
suburban communities (1950-60s), & movement
of the world's
people & products (1970-2000). A collection
of 1,000
artifacts & photos can be searched by
region, time period, or
type of transportation (air, road, water) or
vehicle. (SI)
americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/learning
"The United States Air Force Academy: Founding
a Proud Tradition"
recounts the history of aviation & the
military: aviation's introduction into the
military during World War I, Germany's
use of air power early in World War II, Pearl
Harbor, the Berlin Airlift, Hiroshima &
Nagasaki, & President Eisenhower's declaration
that our first line of defense would be an air
atomic strike force. The site examines the
design of the Air
Force Academy, authorized in 1954 after 30
years of struggle. (NPS,TwHP,NRHP)
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"War & Peace"
exhibits photos, maps, & documents
related to America's wars. Features include a
Civil War timeline, letters from soldiers,
homefront contributions during World War I &
II, American women workers during World War
II, man-on-the-street interviews after Pearl
Harbor, "The Stars & Stripes" newspaper
(for Army troops in France 1918-19), Winston
Churchill, the Marshall Plan, Ansel Adam's
book of photos of a World War II internment
camp, & the Veterans History Project. (LOC)
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"Zoom into Maps"
offers hundreds of historical maps --
maps showing European exploration of the
Americas; migration, population, & economic
activity; the growth of roads, railways,
canals, river systems, telephone systems,
telegraph routes, & radio coverage; landforms,
recreational, & wilderness areas; troop
movements, battle routes, & campsites during
major U.S. military conflicts; & more. The
collection features a 2003 map of U.S.
congressional districts. (LOC)
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"Lewis & Clark"
offers maps, manuscripts, timelines, & photos
related to the famed expedition. It includes
resources for learning about Meriwether Lewis,
Sacagawea, Congress's role in the Louisiana
Purchase, & Thomas Jefferson's life-long
commitment to western exploration. (LOC)
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"Tinker,
Tailor, Farmer, Sailor"
is a lesson in which students use primary
sources to determine why Europeans settlers
were drawn to particular regions of America.
Among the geographic conditions they consider:
access to water, arable land, natural
resources, & the growing season. The lesson
focuses on New England, the South, & Middle
Atlantic colonies. (LOC)
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"Tracking Down the Real Billy the Kid"
is a lesson in which students learn about the
role of
gunfighters in the settling of the West &
analyze interviews with people who knew
William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the
Kid. (LOC)
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"Woodrow Wilson & the Birth of the American
Century"
is the companion website for a film about our
28th President. Discover the issues that made
the 1912 election important. Learn how Wilson
opposed U.S. entrance into World War I, but
how ultimately he committed the nation to war.
Examine the impact of Wilson's presidency
through the eyes of historians. A teacher's
guide provides lessons on women's suffrage,
Wilson & African Americans, the 1912 election,
& World War I. (NEH)
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"World History Matters"
offers guides & model strategies for analyzing
images, maps, newspapers, & other primary
sources. Case studies, written byteachers,
discuss the teaching of 16 primary sources,
from Hammurabi's Code to 20th century Great
Britain. A guide to "100 top online primary
source archives" presents resources by region
(e.g., Africa, Europe) & time period (e.g.,
early
civilization, revolutions). (NEH)
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"Reporting America at War"
explores the role of journalists in covering
America's wars. The website, companion to a
PBS documentary, offers a teachers guide with
lessons on press censorship, message control,
the power of pictures, finding the right
words, & works by Ernie Pyle & Edward R.
Murrow. The documentary examines the
challenges of reporting from the front lines &
the role of the correspondent in shaping how
wars have been understood & remembered. (NEH)
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"The
Grandparent/Elder Project -- Lesson, The
Learning Page"
is a lesson in which students learn about
World War I & the Great Depression by locating
& studying primary & secondary sources & by
interviewing a grandparent or other elder.
(LOC)
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"Her Story --
Community Center, The Learning Page"
presents photos, diaries, & timelines for
learning about women pioneers, women during
the Civil War, women's suffrage in the
Progressive Era, eight women who served "on
the front" during World War II, First Ladies,
literature about women & discrimination,
African-American women in the sciences, women
in Muslim societies, Native American women
writers, Zora Neale
Hurston, Margaret Mead, research in women's
history, & more. (LOC)
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"I
Hear America Singing -- American Memory
Collections"
features recordings, scores, & histories of
dozens of
patriotic songs -- America the Beautiful, the
Star Spangled Banner, & others. Its
collection of sheet music published from 1800
to 1922 includes 9,000 pieces. Also included
are scores, audio excerpts, & photos of Gerry
Mulligan, a jazz musician, composer, & band
leader. (LOC)
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"Tupperware"
offers insights into U.S. history: our economy
after World War II, the plastics industry,
direct selling & business history, women in
society & the workplace, the rise of American
consumerism, the American Dream, & more. Meet
people who built their lives around
Tupperware. Learn how a new billiard ball
launched the plastics industry. See the
"invention notebooks" of Earl Tupper, who grew
up dirt poor &
dreamed of becoming a millionaire. (NEH)
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"Ulysses. S. Grant"
provides insights into U.S. history topics --
frontier life, westward expansion, the
Mexican-American War, military strategy,
slavery, abolition, race relations,
Reconstruction, black suffrage, international
relations, & the Presidency. See battle
re-creations & political cartoons. Meet Civil
War generals. Learn about his greatest
battles, Black Friday, the Panic of 1873, the
disputed election of 1876, & more. (NEH)
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"Vistas: Visual
Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820"
examines colonial-era Spanish America -- a
region that covered much of the Americas,
extending from California to Chile from the
16th century to the early 19th century.
Primary sources, essays, & 70 images are
provided. (NEH)
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"What Exit? New
Jersey & Its Turnpike"
tells the story of the most heavily traveled
toll road in the nation -- how it was built,
what it meant in its time, & how people have
given it life. Built in two years in the
1950s, the 118-mile long New Jersey Turnpike
is a major conduit between New York &
Philadelphia. Its story offers insight into a
20th century phenomenon: the rise of the
automobile &
growth of highways. (NEH)
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"There She Is: A History of Miss America"
accompanies a film that tracks the contest
from its inception in 1921 as an exuberant
local seaside pageant. The website includes a
transcript of the film & learning activities
related to history, geography, economics,
culture, & civics. The film offers insights
into various topics in American history -- the
Jazz Age, the Depression, World War II, the
Baby Boom, feminist & civil rights activism of
the 1960s, the women's liberation movement, &
others. (NEH)
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"Nature's Fury"
invites students to read personal accounts of
natural
disasters in the U.S. during the late 1800s &
early 1990s -- the great Chicago fire (1871),
the Johnstown Flood (1889), the San Francisco
earthquake & fire (1906), the Titanic (1912),
the 1918 Flu Epidemics, the Dust Bowl
(1930s-40s). Students
research a disaster & create a presentation in
which they assume the role of a witness to the
event. (LOC)
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"On the Homefront"
features posters & images illustrating some of
the ways American's at home contributed to war
efforts overseas during World Wars I & II. The
images are presented in 5 categories: volunteer
work, civil defense, conservation, economic
initiatives, & patriotic support. (LOC)
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"Fill up the Canvas"
features journal entries from 20 points in the
journey of Lewis & Clark: mission
preparations, winter in St. Louis, first
council with Indians, death of Sergeant Floyd,
first killing of a buffalo, Sioux camps, near
run-in with Teton Sioux, Rocky Mountains, Nez
Perce, falls of the Columbia River, & others.
The site also provides letters from Thomas
Jefferson to Lewis & Clark; images of people,
places, plants, & animals; & maps. (LOC)
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"From Fantasy to Flight"
provides photos, letters, articles, &
resources for learning about the history of
flight -- aircraft & balloons, Alexander
Graham Bell's aerodynamic studies, the Wright
brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Igor Sikorsky's
helicopters, & Amelia Earhart. (LOC)
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"Remembering Jim Crow,"
companion to a radio documentary, examines the
system that, for much of the 20th century,
barred many African Americans from their
rights as U.S. citizens. Read personal
histories of segregation. See a sampling of
Jim Crow laws. Learn how African Americans
fought economic hardships imposed by Jim Crow
& how they built social institutions to combat
segregation. (NEH)
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"With Wings as Eagles: From Fantasy to
Flight"
documents the history of human flight. Photos,
drawings, & articles are presented in six
categories: myth & fantasy, early science,
balloons & airships, kites & gliders, the
Wright brothers, & after the Wright brothers.
(LOC)
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