Unit Title	Author
2008
Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America	Stacia D. Parker
Keywords: African Americans, Africans, West Philadelphia
2007
African American Women Workers in 19th Century and 20th Century Philadelphia	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: African American History, African American women, American economic system, poverty, racial prejudice
Discovering the Past to Preserve for the Future: The National Archives and American Economic History	Elliot Drago
Keywords: America, capitalism, Internal Revenue Services, National Archives, social studies
Child Labor in Pennsylvania	Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: child labor, Gilead Age, Industrial Revolution, Pennsylvania, Progressive Era
Rock and Roll and the Record and Broadcasting Industry	Sandy O’Keefe
Keywords: African American Artists, Blues music, Music, Philadelphia, rhythm, rock and roll
Made In China: Early American Trade with China, 1784-1844	Mona Kolsky
Keywords: America, American History, American-chinese trade, Asian studies, China, globalization
The History of African American Business in Philadelphia, 1850 – 1920	Vicki Baker
Keywords: African American business, Philadelphia business
Why Are There Abandoned Factories in My Neighborhood?	Tim Woods
Keywords: History, Industrial history, Philadelphia, William Penn
Masquerading in Western Africa	Janice D. Williamson
Keywords: Africa, Art, Culture, customs, dance, Music
Tell Me About It: The Africa I Left Behind	Susan Bunch
Keywords: Africa, ESL, ESOL, storytelling, traditions, West Africa
Strange Fruit – Metaphors, Music and Place – Jazz and Hip Hop as Reflective of the Times	Samuel A. Reed, III
Keywords: Art, Culture, hip-hop, Jazz, lyrics, Music, popular culture, Reading, social studies, society, videos, writing
Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s	Leslie Carlis
Keywords: acting, African American, Art, dance, Music, performing arts, Reading, visual arts
Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era	Carole Chernecky
Keywords: African American, American Literature, Art, artist, Drama, Elgnish, Identity, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies
The Harlem Renaissance	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance
Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico	Audrey J. Jackson
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness
Celebrated Impressions from the Painters of Paris	Debra Migden
Keywords: Art, artists, Impressionist, Paris, society
The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity	Pamela Toller
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate
The Story of Us: An Urban Fifth Grade Class Creates a Living History Document Through Memoir and Photography	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: analyze, data collection, History, literacy, Math, memoir, photography, social studies, Visual Art, writing
Looking Through Others’ Eyes- Literature and the Double Self in the 20th Century	Laura C. Jacklin
Keywords: American short stories, American society, double-consciousness, Literature, The Souls of Black Folk, World War I
Connecting Nineteen Eighty-Four to Today	Alison McCartney
Keywords: analyze, British literature, debate, English, George Orwell, involved citizens, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Reading, social science, World Literature