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        What We're Reading
  Teaching Tolerance loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite diverse books for readers and educators.
      
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          Veterans discover solace in service
  
  “Marine Corporal Jeremy Dobbins returned to Dayton, Ohio, from duty in Afghanistan with an 80% disability rating and issues with anger. Trained in service to others, veterans often resist the idea that they themselves need help and they have difficulty with sharing their war experiences with family and friends. An oral history project at Wright State University is giving Jeremy and other young veterans a chance to help older veterans recover their stories of war, and to come to terms with their own.”
      
  June 26, 2019
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        Toolkit for “Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature”
  Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.
      
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          Thomas H.
  Thomas was born into slavery and lived a harsh life, but he was finally able to escape and reunite with his family.
      
  January 8, 2019
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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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          Death or Liberty
  One stormy night Gabriel Prosser visits Rachel’s house to ask her mother to sew a flag for his rebellion.
      
  February 19, 2020
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        DACA Is in the Supreme Court. How About Your Classroom?
  On November 12, hearings begin for the Supreme Court cases that could decide the fate of DACA. It’s an opportunity for educators to start an important conversation.
      
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        Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°
  The same limited stories about American Indians persist in textbooks. The National Museum of the American Indian’s new program is looking to change that.