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Teach About Native American Women Leaders
Build students’ media literacy by helping them contextualize stories about women candidates—and particularly Native women candidates—during election season and beyond.
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Practice Self-care Now and Next Year
A pandemic rages on, police violence continues to affect Black communities, and this school year is like no other. We know anxiety and burnout have been commonplace this year, and we hope you can find time to pause to practice self-care. These resources can help you reflect, rest and refresh so that you can be present for yourself and your students in 2021.
- Self-care Can Be Social Justice
- The Value of Educator Self-Care
- Self-care for Your Break
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George Moses Horton, Myself
This poem illustrates the ways Horton saw slavery imprisoning both his body and mind.
January 5, 2018
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We’ll Soon Be Free
This spiritual illustrates how enslaved people saw the Civil War through the lens of Christian imagery.
January 5, 2018
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Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860
Lincoln’s letter to Alexander H. Stephens states his desire to prevent slavery’s spread and not threaten it where it already existed. This speaks to the centrality of slavery as a cause of the Civil War.
January 6, 2018
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The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy.
This is a political cartoon satirizing the secession of South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana in an attempt to show the disunity of the new Confederacy.
December 15, 2017
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Letter From Fanny Ward
This advertisement, published in the Southwestern Christian Advocate in 1883, was included in the "Lost Friends" section of the newspaper. Advertisements like this were published after emancipation by African Americans seeking their relatives. Families of enslaved people were often separated during enslavement. Here, Fanny Ward seeks information about her family, which was separated during slavery.
September 4, 2018
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S. L. Jones Searching for Relatives
This advertisement, published in the Southwestern Christian Advocate in 1883, was included in the "Lost Friends" section of the newspaper. Advertisements like this were published after emancipation by African Americans seeking their relatives. Families of enslaved people were often separated during enslavement. Here, S. L. Jones searches for his or her relatives.
September 4, 2018
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The Kidnapping Case: Narrative of the Seizure and Recovery of Solomon Northrup
This is an 1853 newspaper account of Solomon Northup’s experiences and the trials of those involved in his kidnapping and enslavement.
December 15, 2017