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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: 20th Century American Literature


Connecting Nineteen Eighty-Four to Today

Alison McCartney 2007
Keywords: analyze, British literature, debate, English, George Orwell, involved citizens, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Reading, social science, World Literature

Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land

Stacia D. Parker 2007
Keywords: African American History, America, Apartheid, Harlem Renaissance, political literature, South Africa, think globally

Seminar: Africa in the Classroom


Tell Me About It: The Africa I Left Behind

Susan Bunch 2007
Keywords: Africa, ESL, ESOL, storytelling, traditions, West Africa

Seminar: American Racial Politics


American Racial Politics and A Little Town Called Arthington

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2012
Keywords: Africa, Arthington, History, racial politics

Seminar: Art and the Life of the City


Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico

Audrey J. Jackson 2007
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness

Celebrated Impressions from the Painters of Paris

Debra Migden 2007
Keywords: Art, artists, Impressionist, Paris, society

Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography


The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

Keysiah M. Middleton 2016
Keywords: High School, social studies

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Using Elder Stories to Understand the Continuity of History

Meagan C. McGowan 2008
Keywords: broader historical narratives, folk lore, folk lorists, local resources, make history relevant, Reading, stories of elders

The African, Caribbean and African American Cultural Connection

Keysiah M. Middleton 2008
Keywords: aesthetic values, African, African American, Black Atlantic, connect to Africa, cultural expression, dance, Food, interlinked groups, language, Music, pride, shared African background, shared awareness

Seminar: History of the Modern Middle East


Afghanistan: A Nation of Minorities

Kathleen Ayers 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, economies, Global history, Middle East History, policies

The United States and Afghanistan 1970 – 2010: Friendships and Foes in Times of War

Stephanie Felder 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, Foreign Relations, Middle East History

The American Veil: Media Inspired (Mis)Conceptualization of Muslim Women of the Middle East

Zoelene Hill 2010
Keywords: mass media, Middle East, Muslim women

Encounters of the First Kind: Early U.S. and Middle East Relations

Mona Kolsky 2010
Keywords: American History, Middle East History, oil

In and Out of Africa — Egypt, Sudan and the Influence of the Ottoman Empire

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2010
Keywords: Egypt, Middle East, Sudan

Seminar: How Critical Elements Make Up our Modern World


Changing Technology for a Changing Climate: Knowledge is not always power, but power is rarely ignorant

Chloe Glynn 2021
Keywords: climate change, critical minerals, environment, fossil fuels, geopolitics, green technology, greenhouse gases, hands-on experiments, power, renewable energy, social media

Seminar: Origami Engineering


Natural Resources are Natural Wonders

Valerie A. Adams 2018
Keywords: Art, asian art and culture, geometry, literacy, Math, origami

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia

Chadd S. Johnson 2008
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration

The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration

Mona Kolsky 2008
Keywords: 19th Century Immigration, advertisements, Graphs, industrial city, Lazaretto Quarantine Station, national trends, Philadelphia, photographs, political cartoons, ship manifests, stereotyping

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


“Moving on Up”: The Causes and the Impact of the Great Migration on African Americans

Tonya R. Oniyama 2015
Keywords: African American History, eleventh grade, inquiry-based learning, ninth grade, tenth grade, The Great Migration, world history

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern