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Full-text articles to support research in history and genealogy and lesson plans to support student learning.
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"How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History is a highly illustrated, handy field guide that will help kids master the essential skills and lessons of middle school U.S. History. With expert knowledge presented in a bold and fun format that's easy to read and understand, students will learn the history of the United States and explore important questions of context, power, and inequality"--
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"This volume offers a sweeping overview of the shifting tensions and public opinions fueled by Americans' expectations of privacy vs. their collective desire for national security. ... Diving into how far the government has gone and "should" go in the name of national security, this volume analyzes primary and secondary source documents such as Supreme Court decisions, articles from respected periodicals, and legislation. Coverage includes domestic...
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Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity, Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction...