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Teaching Hard History Podcast Season 2: American Slavery

Season 2: American Slavery Season 2 expands the in-depth look at the hard history and legacy of American slavery to focus on the enslavement of Indigenous peoples. Few, if any, textbooks talk about what historian Andrés

June 17, 2025

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March 16, 2017

To Know Our American History Is to Know Ourselves

What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery

January 31, 2018

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery

Teaching Hard History: American Slavery is a comprehensive guide for teaching and learning the critical topic of slavery at all grade levels.

May 28, 2019

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The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853)

This argument from William Goodell underscores the moral and legal precedents used to break up families for commodification.

William Goodell

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Civics

History

December 14, 2017

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White House Data Paints New Portrait of Modern American Women

This 2011 news segment reports on recent data on the state of economic equality for women. Despite the rise in higher education for women, men continue to out earn women.

Savannah Guthrie

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6-8 9-12

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

Economics

July 3, 2014

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Classroom Videos

Film cover of The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors.

In these short videos, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the United States. (Available for streaming only)

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Social Studies

History

April 22, 2020

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March 21, 2019

What Is the Model Minority Myth?

The myth of the “model minority” is pervasive. It does real damage. And Asian American students aren’t the only ones it harms.

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Bullying & Bias

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Black History Month: Celebrating African American Literature

This Black History Month, we’re encouraging educators to celebrate the history of Black achievement, joy and creativity. This week, to support that work, we’ll be sharing resources for exploring the rich tradition of African American literature with students in your classroom.

Celebrate Maya Angelou
An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man

February 18, 2020

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Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West

Installment 2 From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series

March 18, 2022

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