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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss teaching black history and honoring your and your students’ identities.
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Advice From the Experts
Q: Some of my world history students have taken to drawing Confederate battle flags on their homework assignments. What should I do?
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Advice From the Experts
Q: What can we tell parents who object to California’s new law on gay history in textbooks?
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Japanese American Responses to Incarceration
This video clip addresses reactions from Japanese Americans to the 8 p.m. curfew, forced imprisonment in internment camps, and creation of the 422nd Regimental Combat Team.
February 5, 2019
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An Outrage
An Outrage takes viewers to the very communities where heinous acts of violence took place, offering a painful look back at lives lost to lynching and a critical look forward.
September 22, 2017
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Meet Elijah McCoy
Elijah McCoy overcame many obstacles to become a renowned inventor who paved the way for others.
February 19, 2020
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Majority Rule
In this essay, the author considers what it means to live in a democracy of "majority rule" and where minorities find their place and voice (or lack thereof in such a system).
April 27, 2016
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, & Cynthia Wesley
This essay explores the deadly Ku Klux Klan attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It details where and why the four victims—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley—were in the basement of the church on that morning, and summarizes the sentiments expressed across the country following their deaths.
March 2, 2016
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Sugar Manufacture in the Antilles Isles
This image is of enslaved black people working on a sugar mill in Antilles as part of the moral and natural history of the Antilles.
December 15, 2017
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A Personal Mission: Sammy Younge Jr.
Although raised in a prosperous and prestigious African-American home in Tuskegee, Ala., Sammy Younge found himself drawn most to the civil rights movement. While the cause cost him his life, his actions and determination helped to transform this Southern city.
July 31, 2018