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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos

Otto Rene Castillo wrote the poem “Apolitical Intellectuals” in 1967 in response to the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960-1996.

Depicts French Girls (on the left) and English girls (on the right) in a room with the caption reading "How the Law 'Protects the Daughters'"
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Suffrage Atelier Postcard, 1909

This propaganda postcard titled "How the Law ‘Protects the Daughters'" can be used to study European suffrage movements.

Teaching Central America: A Project of Teaching for Change
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Teaching Central America

Teaching Central America provides educational materials for K-12 educators with the goal of centering Central American history and culture in primary and secondary classrooms.
Girl Museum Logo, Celebrating 15 years, 2009-2014
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Girl Museum

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.
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Archives Portal Europe

This website presents records from dozens of countries, in over 20 languages, and from around 7000 diverse archival institutions total including the national archives of dozens of countries and other smaller institutions.
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series

The Foreign Relations of the United States series contains the transcriptions of historical documents related to significant official U.S. foreign relations events.
This chromolithograph, possibly from a multi-volumed History of Mexico, shows a processional standard with the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by Mexican flags and regimental standards. Beneath these are a captured American flag, the captured Texas standard of the Fayette County volunteers from the "Dawson massacre" of 1842, an unidentified regimental standard, as well as swords, bugles, cannons, and a pistol.
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War

The UT Arlington Library's Special Collection is considered amongst the most comprehensive repositories on the U.S. - Mexico war, containing broadsides, sheet music, manuscripts, maps and graphic materials from both U.S. and Mexican sources.
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition

The Partition of India was one of the most difficult, tension-filled political events of the twentieth century, causing millions of people to migrate within the Indian subcontin

"No Votes for Women No Census"
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Census Protest for Women's Suffrage

This 1911 census form showcases one method of peaceful civil disobedience done by supporters of women’s suffrage in Britain during the early 20th century.