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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Monument to the Gilded Age
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, United States History, United StatesVanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Monument to the Gilded Age describes this Hyde Park estate that includes a palatial B...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, EconomicsChicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887 showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscri...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating the United States
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionCreating the United States offers primary documents related to the creation of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitutio...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Jay Treaty of 1794
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, World HistoryThis page, from Yale University s Avalon Project, provides links to a large number of primary documents related to the Jay Treat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRemembering Jim Crow
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil Rights Movement, Geography, United States History, United StatesRemembering Jim Crow is a companion to a radio documentary, and examines the system that, for much of the 20th century, barred m...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFamilies in Bondage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Humanities, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis two-part lesson from EDSITEment draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Election Is in the House: Was There a Corrupt Bargain?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students examine primary source documents and consider, given the evid...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Women's History
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, U.S. Constitution and 2 additional..This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to women's history, and presents information about the history of the wome...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Papers of Jefferson Davis Project
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionThe Papers of Jefferson Davis Project is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArmy: Confederate States of America
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, World History, History & CultureThis resource, from The New York Public Library Digital Gallery, features a collection of 24 images of American Confederate sold...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHopewell Furnace: A Pennsylvania Iron-making Plantation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, United States History, United States, EconomicsHopewell Furnace: A Pennsylvania Iron-making Plantation tells the story of one of the 65 small ironworks operating in southeast ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThese Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil War & ReconstructionThese Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties recounts a battle in a cold, rainy swamp in Sout...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUS History: Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Economics, World HistoryIn this lesson, from EconEdLink, students learn the difference between inventors and entrepreneurs. From talking with adults, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark - Into the Unknown
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading ComprehensionThis Web site, from PBS, is dedicated to the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is an interactive story in which portions of their j...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFacing the Ghosts of Our Past: Writing Narrative Reflections on the Civil War and Slavery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Theatre and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a review of the movie "Beloved" as a starting point for ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors That Affected the Civil War
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, United States HistoryThe documents in this lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, illustrate the president s role as c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMartin Van Buren's "Return to the Soil"
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, Branches of GovernmentMartin Van Buren's Return to the Soil is a curriculum-oriented site using the home, named Lindenwald, the eighth President mov...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to one of the most hotly debated issues during the formation of the American g...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0