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Propaganda is central to any war effort. In the early 20th century, the persuasion to head into battle came, in part, from art: The government recruited artists and illustrators to create propaganda materials. In a new exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York is showing how New York City-based artists and creatives working for the federal government’s Division of Pictorial Publicity helped sell World War I to the public.
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- History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Mental Floss
- Date Added:
- 03/22/2024
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This resource from the National Constitution Center includes an introduction, big questions, recorded class sessions, briefing documents, slide decks, and worksheets about the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitutuion.
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- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Constitution Center
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
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Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.
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- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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In the 1920s, assembly line production and easy credit made it possible for ordinary Americans to purchase many new consumer goods.
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- History
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Khan Academy
- Date Added:
- 03/22/2024
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This resource from the National Constitution Center includes an introduction, big questions, recorded class sessions, briefing documents, slide decks, and worksheets about the nineteenth amendment of the United States Constitutuion.
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- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Constitution Center
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
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Oak Hill Publishing (Constitution Day 2019): ConstitutionFacts.com has been conducting surveys since 2007. Last year, more than 100,000 people took the ConstitutionFacts.com online poll. The 10-question quiz tests knowledge about the Constitution and Constitution history. Upon completion of the quiz and before receiving their scores, participants were asked to provide demographic details about themselves. Quiz takers then had the opportunity to share their scores via Facebook or email and to take a more extensive 50-question quiz. More than 35% of quiz takers tested their knowledge with the longer U.S. Constitution quiz. Read the report of the survey results.
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- History
- Social Science
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- ConstitutionFacts.com
- Date Added:
- 01/03/2023
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This site has collected and currated 20 photos of Utah that were taken as part of the New Deal photography project. These photos can be used at any level and in a variety of ways in the classroom.
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- History
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- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Only In Your State
- Author:
- Catherine Armstrong
- Date Added:
- 03/22/2024
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This resource from the National Constitution Center includes an introduction, big questions, recorded class sessions, briefing documents, slide decks, and worksheets about the 27 amendments of the United States Constitutuion.
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- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Constitution Center
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
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At Ashbrook University , they teach students and teachers about America by using original historical documents. This is their core list of documents that we believe all students and teachers ought to study in order to understand what it means to be an American.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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Review America’s founding documents from a typical course of study for an AP Government class and understand these essential documents better—including their fundamental ideas and the major principles underlying the U.S. Constitution. Primary sources include the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, the Constitution (including the Bill of Rights), The Federalist Papers (#51, #70, #78), Brutus #1, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from the Birmingham City Jail.
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- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Constitution Center
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
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This resource is an article about abolitionists and the U.S. Constitution. Access to this resource requires a free educator login.
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- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- Teach Democracy
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2024
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Read information about the "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America, including George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, Roger Sherman, James Wilson, and Edmund Randolph.
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- History
- Social Science
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- ConstitutionFacts.com
- Date Added:
- 01/03/2023
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On September 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention came to a close in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There were seventy individuals chosen to attend the meetings with the initial purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation.
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- History
- Social Science
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- ConstitutionFacts.com
- Date Added:
- 01/03/2023
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By examining Lincoln's three most famous speeches the Gettysburg Address and the First and Second Inaugural Addresses in addition to a little known fragment on the Constitution, union, and liberty, students trace what these documents say regarding the significance of union to the prospects for American self-government.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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EDSITEment brings online humanities resources directly to the classroom through exemplary lesson plans and student activities. EDSITEment develops AP level lessons based on elementary source documents that cover the most frequently taught topics and themes in American history. Many of these lessons were developed by teachers and scholars associated with the City University of New York and Ashland University.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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One of the heroes of the Battle of Bunker Hill was Salem Poor, an African American. Black people fought on both sides during the American Revolution. Census data also reveal that there were slaves and free Blacks living in the North in 1790 and after. What do we know about African-American communities in the North in the years after the American Revolution?
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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In this special revised and updated feature for Black History Month, teachers, parents, and students will find a collection of NEH-supported websites and EDSITEment-developed lessons that tell the four-hundred-year old story of African Americans from slavery through freedom and citizenship to the presidency.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019
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Late in 1917, the War Department created two all-black infantry divisions. The 93rd Infantry Division received unanimous praise for its performance in combat, fighting as part of France's 4th Army. In this lesson, students combine their research in a variety of sources, including firsthand accounts, to develop a hypothesis evaluating contradictory statements about the performance of the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I.
- Subject:
- History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Provider Set:
- EDSITEments
- Date Added:
- 11/06/2019