Date: Feb 29 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9108" align="alignright" width="300"] The Landing of Columbus[/caption]
Expose your students to the history (and reality) behind Christopher Columbus’ first encounter with the Caribbean and the Taino. Two key primary sources in this lesson are a letter from Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain detailing interactions between Europeans and the indigenous population and a…
Date: Feb 14 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9087" align="alignright" width="195"] Ten Days in a Mad-House: Illuminates the inner workings of an insane asylum.[/caption]
Produced during the History in Motion program, a collaboration between Emerging America and the Library of Congress, the following primary source set contains materials focused on Disability history in the United States.
Disability has been interwov…
Date: Feb 7 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9078" align="alignright" width="219"] Uncle Sam, behind high wall marked "Literacy Test" which is spiked with pen points, says to immigrant family below: "You're welcome, if you can climb it".[/caption]
The Emerging America program in collaboration with the Library of Congress and Special Education in Institutional Settings (SEIS) is pleased to announce a new primary sourc…
Date: Feb 4 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9047" align="alignright" width="300"] The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stand.[/caption]
The Emerging America program in collaboration with the Library of Congress and Special Education in Institutional Settings (SEIS) is pleased to announce a new primary source set on the American Revolution and U.S. Constitution!
The American Revolution a…