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21 January 1944

American Trust Company

[Blank check from American Trust Company]

One blank check from American Trust Company.

GLC09993.344.04

Video

Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship

Government and Civics

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Imperialism and the Spanish-American War

Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. . . . The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. . . . The frontier promoted the...

Collection Item

Manuscript document signed

August 1863

Walker, T.A., fl. 1863-1865

[Teacher's payroll for African American schools in Memphis, Tennessee]

Signed by Walker, Captain of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry and Superintendent of the Freedmen, District of West Tennessee. Lists the amount of pay received by 14 teachers of African American schools in Memphis, Tennessee, 22 July 1863- 24 August...

GLC06376

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....