Around the 2:50 mark in this home movie clip, FDR, in top hat, begins walking, with difficult to perceive assistance, toward the podium to take the oath of office. Just a minute or so of footage shows how FDR overcome his disability in part.
Audio files include excerpts from fireside chats and other economic speeches. Most are three or four minutes, and a few are shorter. 2nd fireside chat announces the New Deal.
Jolson's version of the classic song with primary source images illustrating the words. Jolson's rendition has a little more bite, a little less pathos than Bing Crosby's
Simon Bolivar describing Latin America on the eve of independence. Vocab may be a bit much for regular level students, but with vocab support the concepts should be accessible.
Profiles on 13 Black Minnesotas. #4 Fearless from the West, on Lena Smith, MN's first African American woman lawyer, includes discussion of mob violence directed at the African American Lee family. The Lee Family integrated a previously all-white South Minneapolis neighborhood.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has lessons for documents from their collections relating to: The Stamp Act Crisis, Slavery and Abolition, and Breaking from Great Britain.