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Authentic Historical Investigations
What Happened to Thomas Garber?
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Hook
Opie, A. (1826).
The black man's lament; or how to make sugar.
London: Harvey & Darton, 1826.
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http://www.bl.uk/search/og/search?q=black+man+lament&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&filter=0&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=public_onlinegallery_caribbean&client=public_onlinegallery_caribbean&site=public_onlinegallery_caribbean
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http://gallimafry.blogspot.com/2010/07/black-mans-lament-author-opie-amelia.html
Women and Their Political Peers
"Torturing Women in Prison. Vote Against the Government."
London: National Women's Social and Political Union, ca. 1909.
Color Lithograph.
"Japs Keep Moving - This is a White Man's Neighborhood.
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Identify Fundamental Question(s)
Non-Dichotomous Questioning
Questions that Encourage Inquiry
From Abolition to Equal Rights (John Bull and Uncle Sam)
- Heyrick, E. (1824).
Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition: or, An Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery
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Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw.
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http://archive.org/details/immediatenotgr00heyr
- Wollstonecraft, M. (1792).
Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with
Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
Boston: Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews.
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http://archive.org/details/avindicationrig01wollgoog
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1791).
Original Stories from Real Life
. London.
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Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecraft's Original stories from real life
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Engagement with Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Source Analysis Sheets
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National Archives and Records Administration
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Library of Congress
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Maryland Historical Society
Primary Source Sets
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Assimilation through Education
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Civil War Soldiers’ Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection
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Liljenquist Family Collection
of Civil War Photographs
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Civil War: The Nation Moves Towards War, 1850-61
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Immigration Challenges for New Americans
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Japanese American Internment During World War II
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Jim Crow in America
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The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
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Women's Suffrage
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Consider Multiple Perspectives & Historic Causation
Battling Mono-Causal History
Battling Historical Presentism
Voices from the Days of Slavery
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Faces and Voices
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Piece Together a Plausible Narrative
Lesson Plans
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African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
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After Reconstruction
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Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
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Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
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Child Labor and the Building of America
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Child Labor in America
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Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
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Japanese American Internment
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Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand
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Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
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Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph
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Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
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Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
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Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
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Suffragists and Their Tactics
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The American Dream
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Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
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Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
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Complete Authentic Assessment
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The Teaching with Primary Sources Journal: Assessing Historical
Thinking Skills Using Library of Congress Primary Sources
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Creating a Primary Source Archive
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Lesson Plans
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R
eflect on the Experience