Find out how the CAP web site provides expanded resources for teaching and learning social studies.
Explore visiting and performance artists' work and background.
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The story of "America" is a tale of discovery, settlement, growth, expansion, continuing social and political change, filled with human drama. The narrative of this tale is related not only in history textbooks, but also in the music, dance, paintings, poetry and prose created by the people who have lived and experienced this unfolding history.
The following Lesson Plans examine John Brown, the controversial militant abolitionist, exploring various perspectives of his character and actions as expressed through paintings by various artists, period newspaper articles, and quotes by contemporaries.
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