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“Uncle Ho”: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 3; This monumental stone statue of Ho Chi Minh, outside city hall in Ho Chi Minh City, shows him gently touching a young girl's head. She is looking down towards the book he holds. “Uncle Ho” is recognizable by his characteristic goatee. This Soviet...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Legacies of colonial rule: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 2; The tan and white building is two stories high with a central clock tower, sculpted cornices, and two red-tiled Mansard roof towers. Built by the French colonial government in the early 1900s, the ornate building is still used as a city hall but now it is...; By Lorraine Aragon.

French colonial era city hall building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City: The city hall building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City is one of the best preserved French colonial era buildings left from old Saigon. The tan and white building is two stories high with a central clock tower, sculpted cornices, and two red-tiled Mansard roof...; Format: image/photograph

A close-up view of Ho Chi Minh City's city hall roof line architecture: A close-up view of Ho Chi Minh City's city hall roof line shows elements of early 1900s French colonial architecture and statuary, with the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now flying above the middle tower. A clock and flag tower, which represented...; Format: image/photograph

Stone statue in Hanoi of Ho Chi Minh reading to young girl: A monumental stone statue of Ho Chi Minh, outside city hall in Ho Chi Minh City, shows him gently touching a young girl's head. She is looking down towards the book he holds. "Uncle Ho" is recognizable by his characteristic goatee. This Soviet or Communist...; Format: image/photograph

Belhaven Memorial Museum: Mrs. Eva Blount Way was a great collector of many things. This museum builds upon her eclectic collection of priceless artifacts from nineteenth century Beaufort County.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Caswell No.1 Fire Station Museum: The museum collects, preserves, displays, and interprets artifacts and images relating to fire fighting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Children at Work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas: In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.; Format: lesson plan; By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.

Ila Hartsell Dodson oral history excerpt (child labor): Ila Hartsell Dodson was born in 1907 in South Carolina and began working in the Brandon Cotton Mill at age 14. Her mother, father, and all of her nine siblings worked for various cotton mills in North and South Carolina. She met her husband working in the...; Format: audio/interview

Old Gaston County Courthouse: This is the old Gaston County Courthouse in Dallas, North Carolina. It was the second courthouse of Gaston County, before the county seat was moved to Gastonia. It now serves as a police station and city hall.; Format: image/photograph

Train depot in Clarkton, NC: This is a train depot in Clarkton, North Carolina. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as a city hall.; Format: image/photograph

Resources on the web

Nobel e-Museum: Searchable database for Nobel Award winners by award and year as well as interactive activities for students interested in achievements in the sciences, literature and economics. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: The Nobel Foundation

Who pays for city hall?: Students learn that city governments provide goods and services by collecting taxes from citizens. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Social Studies); Provided by: National Council on Economic Education