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The Civil Rights Movement in Context
Investigate the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.
Take this course: Begins February 2.

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Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art
This art center presents exhibits and educational programs focusing on North Carolina artists and their art.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center
Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Mint Museum
Access to digitized images from special exhibitions and the permanent collections of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, along with activities for kids.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Forensic scientists: Identifying unknown substances
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.10
In this lesson, students use the physical properties of three mystery substances to determine their identities. Students discuss how these skills apply to careers in forensic science.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.5
In 1794, inventor Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. The invention made cotton production -- and with it, slave labor -- far more profitable, and it helped to cement the South's status as an agricultural region and a slave society.
Format: article
The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House
In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7
Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...
By Sue Clark McKendree.

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The White House Collection of American Crafts
Seventy-two pieces in a White House collection of glass, wood, clay, fiber, and metal American crafts by leading craft artists of the 1990s. The pieces within the collection are meant to illustrate the skill, imagination, and vitality characteristic of American... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Smithsonan Institution National Museum of American Art