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Hannah Edsall

Hannah teaches high school social studies in the Greater Boston area. Specializing in post-Reconstruction American history and AP European history, Edsall pursues teaching history from multiple perspectives using primary sources and strives to make history relevant to her students. She is also the advisor for her school's social justice club, where she spends afternoons discussing prejudice, discrimination, politics and current events with over 20 students.

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'What Has Happened to America?'

Klan groups frequently leave pamphlets on doorsteps and parked cars to spread their message of hate. A group calling itself the Bristol Knights distributed a flier in white Connecticut neighborhoods in the 1980s.

Bristol Knights

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

History

April 28, 2016

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StoryCorps: My Father Worked in a Chocolate Factory

“My father went to work in a chocolate factory. When he'd come home, his hair was all full of chocolate; his pillows were all brown.”

Carmela Pollio, Laurence Hewitt and Yoshiharu Hewitt

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Class Immigration

Subject

Economics

Geography

July 8, 2014

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Flint Sit-Down Strike

Between December 1936 and February 1937, auto industry laborers in Flint, Mich., stopped working and occupied the GM factories that employed them until their right to unionize was recognized.

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Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 9, 2014

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Women’s Suffrage

This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote. Second, over time, the federal government's role in securing these rights has expanded considerably.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

February 10, 2014

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom World War II and Post War (1940–1949)

This excerpt is part of a larger exhibition from the Library of Congress. This excerpt demonstrates the ways World War II and the Cold War informed President Roosevelt’s and President Truman’s decisions to pursue civil rights legislation.

The Library of Congress

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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StoryCorps: She Kissed Me on the Cheek

“The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”

James Thompson, Dwight Thompson and Brenda Lee Graham

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 8, 2014

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Multimedia

StoryCorps: Stonewall Riots

“The lights went up, the music went off, and you could hear a pin drop.”

Michael Levine and Matthew Merlin

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 8, 2014

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StoryCorps: We Were Caught

“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

Rob Littlefield

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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Lauren Winner

Lauren Winner, of Charlottesville, Va., studies history at the University of Cambridge, England.

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