The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.






Learning Tools


Interpreting Primary Sources:

Sectional Conflict


Recommended lesson plan:

Militancy and the Abolitionist Movement
http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/lp2.html


Fact Check:

Quiz on the Coming of the Civil War

Primary source documents with classroom questions :

 Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court
Lincoln and Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom
Joseph Mazzini and the Civil War: Nineteenth Century Nationalism
Unit: Thoreau's Walden Aim: To understand what type of person Thoreau seeks to liberate through reading Walden


Timelines:

A timeline of the 19th century









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