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The collection of an archive of primary source materials will be an exciting component of a year-long American Studies class focusing on historiography and the use of primary sources. Students collect primary source materials from their families or local communities. In analyzing these primary sources, students examine the interplay between national, state, local, and personal history. Over a period of several weeks, students may produce a digital collection modeled on the Library of Congress' American Memory.Teachers and students from other states and localities may easily follow this model to create local history Memory Projects of their own. Teachers may choose to limit the lesson to a single unit in which students build the archive of primary source materials, or may extend the lesson to a year-long project by including units in which students create Web pages and lesson plans based on their archives.
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Social Sciences
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Primary,
Secondary
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Library of Congress
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In this workshop, 12 high school history teachers explore the use of primary-source documents in the research and interpretation of American history. The programs feature informal lectures by prominent historians on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown to the Korean conflict and the Cold War. The teachers are led in discussions, debates, interviews, and role-playing as they investigate the original documents that Ňtransmit the voices of AmericaŐs past.Ó Teachers will find that the activities in this workshop can be adapted and used in their own classrooms.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Post-secondary
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Annenberg Learner
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Learning history from real people involved in real events brings life to history. The Grandparent/Elder Project provides a means to learn about the twentieth century from real people and primary sources. A 1913 New York Times newspaper provides a view of the world on the brink of a World War. An interview with a grandparent or significant elder provides a human face for life in the twentieth century. Through researching primary and secondary sources, students become conversant with significant aspects of twentieth century history.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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Library of Congress
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Primary sources of information relating to the Plantation of Ulster with accompanying questions for students to complete.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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Scoilnet
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Visual and primary sources of information relating to the Plantations in Ireland with a range of challenging questions for students to complete.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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Scoilnet
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America 1789-1820: Living the Revolution. Primary source materials include autobiographies, plays, essays, orations, addresses, political documents, letters, poems, cartoons, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Predicament, Religion, Politics, Expansion, and Equality.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America in 1763-1791: The Making the Revolution. Primary source materials include letters, diaries, journals, poems, paintings, maps, pamphlets, sermons, petitions, broadsides, cartoons, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Crisis, Rebellion, War, Independence, and Constitution.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America in 1870 - 1912: The Gilded and the Gritty. Primary source materials include poems, paintings, essays, stories, articles, speeches, court cases, cartoons, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Memory, Progress, People, Power, and Empire.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America in the 1920's: Becoming Modern. Primary source materials include cartoons, newsreels, posters, commentary, fiction, audio clips, paintings, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: The Age, Modernity, Machine, Prosperity, and Divisions.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of the British Atlantic Colonies 1690-1763: Becoming American. Primary source materials include letters, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, maps, paintings, poems, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Growth, Peoples, Economies, Ideas, and American.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of America in 1815-1850: The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing. Primary source materials include letters, diaries, journals, poems, paintings, maps, essays, stories, treatises, sermons, addresses, and more. Resources are divided into the topics: Culture of the Common Man, Cult of Domesticity, Religion, Expansion, and America in 1850.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of The Making of African American Identity: Volume 1: 1500-1865. Primary source materials include narratives, photographs, letters, memoirs, songs, newspapers, petitions, addresses, journals, paintings and more. Sources are divided into the topics: Freedom, Enslavement, Community, Identity, and Emancipation.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of the European presence in North America from 1492-1600. Primary source materials include letters, diaries, journals, poems, paintings, maps, wills, captivity narratives, and more. Resources are further divided into the topics: Contact, Exploration, Settlement, Permanence, and Power.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of The Making of African American Identity, Volume 2: 1865-1917. Primary source materials include paintings, sculpture, narratives, autobiographies, short stories, essays, songs, letters, poems, photographs, interviews, and more. Sources are divided into the topics: Freedom, Identity, Institutions, Politics, and Forward.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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The National Humanities center presents reading guides with primary source materials for the study of The Making of African American Identity, Volume 3: 1917-1968. Primary source materials include essays, articles, plays, poems, paintings, fiction, letters, songs, cartoons, interviews, memoirs, video clips, and more. Sources are divided into the topics: Segregation, Migrations, Protest, Community, and ŇOvercome?Ó
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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America In Class
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This lesson introduces students to newsreel as primary source.This lesson is based on the understanding that students have already been exposed to news reel as primary source documents in the Social Studies classroom.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Primary
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South Carolina Digital Library
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To better understand the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary lesson integrates analyzing historical primary resources with literary analysis. Students work in groups and express themselves creatively through a multi-media epic poem. The artistic models for the students' multi-media epic poem are Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (1855) and Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930). These epic poets capture, interpret, and give meaning to their particular times and places. Students look to do the same with the year 1900, relying upon relevant primary resources Ń sound recordings, images, text Ń and their own creative and interpretative voices.
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Humanities
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Primary,
Secondary
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Library of Congress
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his kit helps decode the messages of political posters created by Soviet regimes from Lenin and Stalin through Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Teachers lead students through the interactive process of applying their historical knowledge to the analysis of these documents using background and additional information and carefully selected probe questions. Students will learn core information and vocabulary about the history of the USSR, political and historical perspectives as communicated through visual media, visual literacy and media literacy skills, especially the ability to identify bias in art and propaganda.
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Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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Project Look Sharp
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