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A simulation of an auction during a fifth-grade lesson about slavery last week is just the latest illustration of why we need better ways to teach hard history.

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Rights & Activism

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October 16, 2017

From Columbus to Charlottesville: An Urgent Call for Benevolence

This former high school history teacher now realizes that she failed her students by sticking to the subject matter and neglecting what’s most important about education. She’s worried her fellow educators might be failing too.

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Informational

Slavery a Positive Good

A speech given by Senator John C. Calhoun in which he argues in favor of slavery, saying that it benefits enslaved people, enslavers and the United States as a whole.

John C. Calhoun

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

February 20, 2018

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Learning for Justice Through Film

Narratives are a deeply meaningful way that we learn about ourselves, each other and the world. And film can be a powerful medium for expression, connection and learning, helping to build empathy and understanding

September 16, 2025

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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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Literature

The Night Was Dark

In this story, Elizabeth and her family escape their plantation in the middle of the night with help from Harriet Tubman.

Jarah Botello

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

February 19, 2020

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