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"Viva la Conexión"
Spanish teacher Tricia Kelly reflects on one of her favorite teaching days.
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Hate in the Hallways
Recognizing the history of defamatory symbols can help schools see fewer of them.
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Building a Community of Upstanders
A Mix Model School coordinator explains why her school participates in Mix It Up at Lunch Day and how she extended it beyond one day with an in-depth social experiment.
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Building a Community of Upstanders: Planning
In the final installment of the three-part blog series, this Mix It Up coordinator shares how her school plans for the big event
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Teach the Truth About American Slavery
August 23 is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. With blatant, nationwide attempts to keep truth-telling out of schools, it’s especially critical to teach the whole truth about American slavery. Use our Teaching Hard History framework, its accompanying online archives and databases, and this film to help you and your students dig deeper into lessons about the slave trade and its lasting effects, as well as an often-forgotten part of our nation’s history: Indigenous enslavement.
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Classroom Videos
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
- Teaching Hard History Online Archives and Databases
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Teaching the Historical Context of January 6
As the political fallout from the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot unfolds, it’s critical that educators help students contextualize white supremacist movements of the past and present.
January 7, 2019
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Patty and Abigail
Patty, a young enslaved girl, shares some insight about life on a South Carolina plantation.
January 8, 2019
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The Fugitive Slave Bill
The Fugitive Slave Clause was a stipulation in the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3) that enslaved persons who escaped to another state had to be returned to their previous enslaver if discovered. An essential component of the Compromise of 1850 included a strengthening of that clause, through what was known as the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. The bill served as a concession to southern congressmen who wanted increased power to capture formerly enslaved persons. Congress passed the bill on September 18, 1850, and President Millard Fillmore signed it into law on the same day.
December 14, 2017
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Our Countrymen in Chains
This is an antislavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier on a broadside with an accompanying woodcut image.
December 15, 2017