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Lesson Plan October 29 2020

Five memorable presidential campaigns

Does President McKinley's Front Porch campaign ring a bell? How about Harry Truman's Whistlestop campaign? Have students find patterns by studying these five presidential campaigns.

FILE PHOTO: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) look on after executing search warrants and making some arrests at an agricultural processing facility in Canton

Daily Video August 22 2019

ICE immigration raids took this school superintendent by surprise

Use this lesson plan to learn more about the ICE immigration raids in Mississippi and how schools have been affected.

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Daily Video August 21 2019

How the Statue of Liberty poem provides a lesson in immigration history

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to learn about the Trump administration's changes to immigration policy and how it relates to the Statue of Liberty's famous inscription.

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Daily News Lesson August 06 2018

How Monticello's exhibit on Sally Hemings deepens our understanding of U.S. history

Share the story of Sally Hemings with your students and Monticello's latest efforts to set the historical record straight.

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