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- Reading primary sources: Letters
- This interactive guide to reading an 18th-century letter steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: letter (multiple pages)
- The Declaration of Independence
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
- Format: article (grade 10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- Mexico's Independence Day

- Mexico's Independence Day, the 16th of September is a big celebration.
- Format: image/photograph
- Assembly room, Independence Hall

- The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress met, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Constitution was debated.
- Format: image/photograph
- 195 Years of Independence!

- Mexico's Independence began in 1810 and has continued for more than 195 years. Every year they celebrate their freedom on the sixteenth of September
- Format: image/photograph
- Activity: 16 de Septiembre
- In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 2.2
- Contact the local Hispanic cultural or resource center and establish contacts with Mexican immigrants. Have your students interview families, especially those with children of comparable ages and discuss how Mexicans celebrate the 16th of September...
- Format: activity
- Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Declaration of Independence

- John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, commissioned in 1817, depicts the presentation of the Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in 1776. The "Committee of Five" presenting the Declaration...
- Format: image/painting
- Declaration of Independence

- John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence, shows the five-man drafting committee (John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin) presenting their work to the Congress. Seated is the President...
- Format: image/painting
- Young boys carry bamboo poles with soldier figures at Independence Day parade

- Young boys carry bamboo poles mounted with soldier figures at Independence Day parade. The boy in front, who wears a red elementary school T-shirt, holds up a float showing an Indonesian revolutionary fighter. The constructed figure has long dark hair, a moustache,...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Declaration of Independence
- Format: image/declaration
- School children with flags and torches depart Independence Day ceremonies

- A large group of school children with flags and torches depart Independence Day ceremonies on August 17, 1986. As twilight sets in, everyone at the ceremony in Ubud lights the end of a bamboo stick and the twinkling torches light their way home.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Declaration of Independence

- Format: image/declaration
- Independence Hall Philadelphia

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- Painted tiles commemorating independence

- A wall of tiles has been painted with a historical scene of the movement for independence. Behind a cauldron a fire a man, most likely Simon Bolívar, holds a broken chain. The right of the mural is a cross section of the population of Ecuador: farmers, businessmen,...
- Format: image/photograph
- An Engraving of the Declaration of Independence
- Format: image/declaration
- The Halifax Resolves
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.10
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: proclamation
- Man lays wreath at stone memorial on Independence Day, August 17, 1986

- A Balinese man formally dressed in white pants and a red jacket and hat bends over to lay a flower wreath at a stone memorial during a ceremony for Indonesia's Independence Day, August 17, 1986. The man's outfit is coordinated to match the Indonesian flag:...
- Format: image/photograph
- Line of children hold flags and wreaths at Independence Day, August 17, 1986

- A line of Balinese school children hold red and white Indonesian flags and flower wreaths at a ceremony on Independence Day, August 17, 1986. The red and white flower wreaths are shaped as circles and hearts. A large crowd of spectators stand watching the...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Mexican eagle

- A massive display of Mexico’s national emblem, the eagle, for Mexican Independence Day.
- Format: image
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