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Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, United States, GeographyPetition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West gives a facsimile of the handwritten petition of the suffragist, edito...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Sociology, History-Social Science, American Democracy, ElectivesIn this unit, students use primary source documents to explore the woman s suffrage movement from its beginnings in the 1840s to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Andersonville: Prisoner of War Camp
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social Science, United States HistoryAndersonville: Prisoner of War Camp examines the conditions of Camp Sumter (in Andersonville, Georgia), the largest and most not...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society: Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Types of Media, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features a collection of links to images of the Civil War s Batt...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society: Cemeteries
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Types of Media, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, features a collection of links to images of Civil War-era cemete...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Selected Civil War Photographs
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Types of Media, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, offers 1,118 photographs from the Civil War era. Most of the ima...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Images at War
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World History, Visual ArtsThe goals of this EDSITEment lesson are to examine American attitudes toward war as revealed in Civil War photographs and World ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore myths surrounding the Gettysburg Address. They think critically about commonly b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Letter, Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner: Black and White Soldiers Should be Treated Equally
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis document is found on the Library of Congress American Memory Project Collection titled Words and Deeds in American Histor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"-The "New Woman"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students study the historical context of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's sh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The President's Roles and Responsibilities: Communicating with the President
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis collection of two lessons, from EDSITEment, encourages students to consider the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social Science, United States HistoryBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 offers 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Native PeoplesIndian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit inivites students to explore the forced acculturation of American Indians ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Lobbying for Passage of the National Suffrage Amendment, 1917-1920
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis resource, from the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the SUNY at Binghamton, features suffrage. Three ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Alexander Graham Bell's Patent for the Telephone and Thomas Edison's Patent for the Electric Lamp
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, American Democracy and 4 additional..This lesson relates to the power of Congress to pass laws related to the granting of patents. In 1876 Americans held a Centennia...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Welcome to Civil War Documents
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from AmericanCivilWar.com, features reproduced text versions of Civil War documents. This page offers the text of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Territorial Expansion and the Shift of Power
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students examine the effects of changes in the electorate and regional...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Native Peoples, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsCampfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures takes students on a virtual journey with the artist and ethnol...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Elections the American Way: Voters
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, discusses the history of voting rights in the United States. Fea...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Federalist Party
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis resource, part of PBS s American Experience series, is featured in the episode titled The Duel. This page details the d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0