Spotlight on: Primary Source The end of the Vietnam War: conscience, resistance, and reconciliation, 1973 Vietnam was "America’s longest war." While US operations tended to be very limited between 1945 and 1964, escalation in the early months of 1965 eventually led to the deployment of more than 2.5 million military personnel to South...
History Now Essay The Jewish Imprint on American Musical Theater Elizabeth Wollman Art Long celebrated as one of the most quintessentially American of entertainment genres, Broadway musicals delight audiences with glitz, glitter, and polish; send them home with at least a glimmer of hope; and celebrate America’s promise... Appears in: 71 | The Jewish Legacy in American History Summer 2024
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Lesson Plan Survival in the American Wilderness: Fiction v. Nonfiction 7, 8 Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based units. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance....