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Use modern political cartoons to introduce analysis of recent events.
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Primary and secondary sources document the minority struggle for civil [...] »

How much do you know about the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury?
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Do you have your mother's—and her mother's—fashion sense?
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You know the Purple Heart, but can you identify these honors?
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What traditional Thanksgiving foods would have been hard to come by during [...] »
Beyond the Textbook

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 reflected the voices of [...] »

Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted [...] »

How can the story of coal help students understand the nature of today's [...] »
National Resources

Lesson plans, essays, multimedia, activities, and artifacts of U.S. heritage [...] »
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Boston abolitionists on the lookout for slave-catchers in 1851.
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