An exhibit by the Library of Congress supplies diverse facts on the famous 1492 voyage. The exhibition first examines the encounter between the European explorers and the native people. They explore five geographical areas: The Caribbean Island Societies, the Middle American Cultures, the Andes, Life in the Highlands, the South Atlantic Peoples, and the Diverse Societies of North America. The changing order of the Mediterranean World gives a new perspective to the discovery of America. The entry for Christopher Columbus, too, gives a different slant on the Man and the Myth. The entire site is fortified with pictures and descriptions of artifacts from the time. All in all, the Library of Congress presents multiple routes for discussions on Columbus Day.

Describes the successes of the Axis Powers as they expand their reach across Europe, Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union, and the entry of the United States into the war after Pearl Harbor is attacked. [12:12]

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning tool for advanced US History course covering the period 1491-1607. Site offers videos, essays, timelines, primary source materials and photographs for a comprehensive study.

Examine the scope of the opioid addiction crisis in America and strategies, including harm reduction programs, that are being used to treat people with opioid use disorder in these videos from NOVA: Addiction. Explore harm reduction programs designed to stop preventable deaths and new disease outbreaks that reflect a public health approach to improve current treatments-by understanding addiction as a disease, not a stigmatized or criminal behavior. [4:21] Support materials are provided.

Ibiblio.org offers the address of the Japanese Prime Minister on the opening of the Imperial Diet in 1942.

One of the primary reasons for colonization of the New World was to escape European religious persecution. This site provides stories of religious nonconformists, militants, zealots, reformers, and the faithful.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Chicago Tribune Political Cartoons. Twenty-four political cartoons from the Tribune are presented here - two per year from 1918 to 1929 - created by the longtime Tribune cartoonists John McCutcheon and Carey Orr. Together the cartoons represent a mini-history of the major issues and dominant attitudes of the period.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: City & Town. It looks at the divide between country and city, and the ongoing growth of cities that became evident in the 1920 census. Includes a collection of commentaries, and selected pieces from authors.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Detroit News Newsreels, 1923-1928. A collection of thirty newsreels produced from 1923 to 1928, reporting local news that reflected national issues and trends - traffic safety, aviation feats, crime, illegal aliens, college fads, beauty contests, new cars, new skyscrapers, new airline service, new radio towers, new street lighting, and, of course, sports, celebrities, children, and animals.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Ku Klux Klan. Spreading far beyond its roots in the Reconstruction South, the resurgent Klan of the 1920s was a short-lived but potent phenomenon. Presented here are a collection of commentaries, political cartoons, a newsreel of a Klan parade, and a recording of Will Rogers.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Felix the Cat Animated Cartoons, 1922-1927. In the eight cartoons presented here, Felix leads a feline strike, learns what "moonshine" is, tries to prove Darwin's theory of evolution, gets "blown away" by Russian revolutionaries, plays baseball in an interracial game, tries to replicate Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, gets a Hollywood film contract, and dissuades a flapper from doing the same.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: "Machine Age." Will machines liberate man or enslave him? We enter this discussion as it transpired in the Twenties, when fresh memories of mechanized warfare competed with enticements of new autos, appliances, and other mechanical adventures. Presents 1920s commentaries on this topic, and a painting by modernist artist Charles Demuth.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Airplane. Here in essays, newsreels, and visual art we glimpse the postwar leap in aviation innovation, commercialization, and derring-do.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Automobile. In the 1920s, as never before, the automobile became a must-have item for the successful American, and it was changing everything. Presented here are commentaries on the automobile, writings by Will Rogers on traffic safety, a silent film, and newsreels.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Movies. As movies came to center the mass-culture universe, two major questions came to the fore: how did movies influence modern youth, and how would the introduction of sound affect the silent film industry? Here we consider pronouncements on these two questions from a sociologist and a Hollywood producer. Also included are samples of films and cartoons, silent and with sound.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Radio. With the advent of commercial broadcasting in the 1920s, wireless became radio - the must-have device that millions purchased for their living rooms to hear news and entertainment broadcasts. Read 'Collected commentary on the value of radio' and listen to a broadcast from about 1925.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Art. Study the seven paintings and two photographs presented here, created between 1922 and 1929. All are modernist works; six are precisionist. For most, you are directed to museum websites that provide discussion and zoomable images. Complete the chart, New York City in Visual Art of the 1920s, as you study the works.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern City in Film. Presents a collection of films and newsreels about New York City from the 1920s.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern Woman. Here we view the phenomenon of the "modern woman" as she was revered and reviled at the time - newly enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, entering the job market and the political arena in greater numbers than ever, and redefining marriage, motherhood, and "womanliness" for a new era. Includes commentaries, a cartoon, a literary selection from Sinclair Lewis, and a newsreel.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern Youth. A collection of commentaries and films from the 1920s on perceptions about youth at that time.