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With and without the vote and throughout American history, young people have been a force to be reckoned with as they take action and stand in support of the issues that matter most. In 2020 this legacy will continue; 22 million young people will be eligible to vote in American elections for the
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Interactives & Media
With and without the vote and throughout American history, young people have been a force to be reckoned with as they take action and stand in support of the issues that matter most. In 2020 this legacy will continue; 22 million young people will be eligible to vote in American elections for the
Resource Type(s):
Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Becoming US is a new educational resource for high school teachers and students to learn immigration and migration history in a more accurate and inclusive way. The people of North America came from many cultures and spoke different languages long before the founding of the Uni
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Interactives & Media
The videos support the 2019 National Youth Summit where the following question was discussed: Are the tactics used by suffragists to fight for political power still effective?
To play all of the videos on YouTube, visit the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksxsSc1TmQ&list=PLZxSSLX6InCQ7
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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
In this lesson plan, students will learn how Cindy Whitehead, a skateboarding pioneer, changed the culture of skateboarding and fought for girls to have greater access to all sports. Students will examine the question: Why does gender equality in sports matter?
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
We will host a panel discussion connecting stories of teenagers in the past fighting to address systemic injustice to those of the present. The 2020 annual summit will be centered on the case study of Claudette Colvin—a 15-year-old Black student in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Colvin refused to g
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
Are the tactics used by suffragists to fight for political power still effective?
Suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment marked an important moment in the progression of women’s participation in our democracy and civic life. Yet it was an imperf
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Interactives & Media
During World War II, the United States government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to ten camps built throughout the western interior of the United States. Many would spend the next three years
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Artifacts, Primary Sources
The U.S.D.A. Forest Service introduced Woodsy Owl in 1971 as an anti-litter and anti-pollution symbol to promote wise use of the environment. The campaign, which continues today, is primarily aimed at school-age children and uses slogans such as “Give a Hoot! Don’t Pollute” and “Lend a Ha
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Artifacts, Primary Sources
This bus carried rural children to the Martinsburg, Indiana school in the 1940s. Busing enabled children to attend consolidated schools, which were larger than one-room schools and had better curricula, teachers, and facilities. All-steel school buses like this one were safer than earlier school
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
An account of the labor, treatment, and accomplishments of Chinese workers on the railroad during the 19th century.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Basic guide to countries around the world.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
An illustrated chronology of immigration over the course of American history.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The Native American folktale of the hunt for buffalo.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A story of a woman's experience immigrating to Chicago from Puerto Rico.
Author:
Michael Bad Hand Terry
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A photographic look at life in a Plains Indian Village during the 19th century.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of the hardships a family endures when they move to the prairie.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of two boys growing up in Pennsylvania during 1853, where they encounter slave traders, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad.
Author:
Judy Goldberg (editor)
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Culled from over 20,000 letters addressed to Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton. Questions are asked and answers given related to Chelsea's experiences while living in the White House.
Author:
Jennifer Armstrong
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A fictionalized exchange of letters between a little girl and Thomas Jefferson accounts events of the 1800s.
