The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
This lesson helps dispel prevailing stereotypes and generalizing cultural representations of American Indians by providing culturally-specific information about the contemporary as well as historical cultures of distinct tribes and communities within the United States.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Ths primary source set focuses on material culture produced about and by American Indians. The information and materials in the set can be used as a jumping off point for teachers looking to access resources provided by the Library of Congress related to the topic.

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Emerging America - Collaborative for Educational Services

This Civil Rights unit covers the early days of the expansion of slavery in the United States through the momentous 1950s and 60s and into the modern Civil Rights Movement. Use primary documents, readings, activities and more to introduce your students to key concepts, events, and individuals of this facet of American history.

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iCivics, Inc.

This 8-lesson Civil Rights unit covers the early days of the expansion of slavery in the United States through the momentous 1950s and 60s and into the modern Civil Rights Movement. Use primary documents, readings, activities and more to introduce your students to key concepts, events, and individuals of this facet of American history.

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iCivics, Inc.

The African-American Civil Rights movement is typically seen as having taken place mostly in the 1950s and 60s, when a confluence of social and economic factors enabled political change. The movement, however, has much deeper roots, and thus our toolkit starts in the 19th Century, some two generations before leaders like King, Parks, and others were born. Viewing the Civil Rights movement as a generational one provides a broader perspective on the ideas and people at the foundation of this work to achieve “a more perfect union” for all Americans.

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Ashbrook/TeachingAmericanHistory

In this lesson, students will analyze the visual and literary visions of the New World that were created in England during the early phases of colonization, and the impact they had on the development of the patterns of colonization that dominated the early 17th century. This lesson will enable students to interact with written and visual accounts of this critical formative period at the end of the 16th century, when the English view of the New World was being formulated, with consequences that we are still seeing today.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

This unit uses primary documents and images to discover the ways state and local governments restricted the newly gained freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War. Students compare, contrast, and analyze post-war legislation, court decisions (including Plessy v. Ferguson), and a political cartoon by Thomas Nast to understand life in Jim Crow states.

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iCivics, Inc.

Students will examine the life and actions of John Brown through primary sources and historical narrative.

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Bill of Rights Institute

This lesson explores the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how it affected different Native American groups. Students will learn about the reasons why the U.S. government implemented this policy and look at the experiences of three different groups that were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands.

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C-SPAN Television Networks/C-SPAN Classroom

In this exercise, students will have the opportunity to imagine that they are a museum curator who examines old artifacts and documents for clues of an earlier time period. Then, they have an opportunity to write up their interpretation of this history by crafting a press release announcing the rediscovery of an artifact that was donated to the Washington State Historical Society's collection in 1921.
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Washington State Historical Society
This learning resource uses geospatial technology to understand what states were free and what states still had enslavement. Students will use the maps to visualize the function of the Underground Railroad and what paths were traveled by enslaved people to freedom.

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Esri

This set of Library of Congress primary sources explores the westward expansion of the United States.

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The Library of Congress
