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Interactives & Media
Investigate the market revolution in the 1800s through the stories of five Americans from the Merchant Era. Optimized for desktops and laptops.
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media
Decode a historic ledger that belonged to William Ramsay, a merchant in Alexandria, Virginia in the mid-1700s.
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Primary Sources, Interactives & Media
Learn more about the business of slavery by exploring four historic documents from the United States slave trade.
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Reference Materials
“When he reflected later in life on why, as a young man, he chose to enlist during wartime, Carlos Martinez said that avoiding service was never an option, not for his community and not for himself. In the mid-1960s, the United States had begun fighting the Soviet-supported North Vietnamese as par
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Reference Materials
“The attacks of September 11, 2001, shocked the nation. Nearly 3,000 people were killed and thousands more injured after Islamic extremists hijacked planes and flew them into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon; a fourth plane, bound for D.C., was brought down by intervening passenge
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Artifacts, Primary Sources
Pennsylvania Germans near the Conestoga River first made Conestoga wagons around 1750 to haul freight. By the 1810s, improved roads to Pittsburgh and Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) stimulated trade between Philadelphia, Baltimore, and settlers near the Ohio River. Wagoners with horse-drawn C
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Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This inquiry leads students through an investigation of recent studies that try to quantify a country’s hap
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Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to evaluate the relationship between the dramatic increase
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Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This inquiry focuses on the emergence, growth, and collapse of the New France colony in North America. French
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Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This eighth grade annotated inquiry places students in the middle of an important debate—a debate that goes
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Explore the story of September 11, 2001 through the windows of St. Paul's Chapel in New York City. St. Paul's Chapel served as a hub for rescue and recovery workers in the days after the attacks.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A lyrical story of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A powerful historical novel that is harsh and realistic, not only about the brutal effects of slavery that the runaways carry with them forever but also about the prejudice and hardship they encounter on their journey to freedom.
