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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Key Concept 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

text

Informational

Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)

This document illustrates the ways in which the Massachusetts colony created a legal framework for slavery, reflecting religious and race-based reasoning.

Massachusetts General Court

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 4, 2018

article

March 1, 2018

We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.

Topic

Slavery

text

Informational

Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

This text explores the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two self-made men whose lives intersected near the end of America's Civil War.

Russell Freedman

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

History

July 10, 2017

professional development

What's a Teacher to Do?

Here are five things you can do to make your classroom respectful and culturally sensitive.

Professional Development Topic

Classroom Culture

July 6, 2009

text

Informational

Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates

The American Psychological Association (APA) published “Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates” on its website in 2012. The APA is widely regarded as the most prominent professional organization for psychologists in the United States.

American Psychological Association

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 5, 2014

article

August 29, 2017

For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted

Teaching Tolerance students engaging in discussion

Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

May 18, 2017

Teachers, Check Your Texts

male student working at computer in libary

LGBTQ Asian identities need to be amplified in the school curriculum—and not just during a heritage month.

article

February 14, 2018

“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story

Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.

Topic

Slavery Rights & Activism

text

Literature

The First Coconut Tree

In this pourquoi tale, a mother living on one of the islands in the Pacific Islands, is mystified when she bears a round child with no arms and no legs, but she tenderly raises the child until one day he asks to be buried in the sand, where he can grow (into the first coconut tree) and every part of him can be useful.

Nancy Bo Flood

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Geography

January 5, 2015

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