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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


Lasting Effects of Slavery

Victor M. Pomales Jr. 2020
Keywords: African American History, film, Slavery, social studies

Seminar: Cities through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender


A Geographical Analysis of Sites of African American History in Philadelphia

Hannah Zieve 2021
Keywords: African American History, anthropology, Geography, High School, project based learning, Research, social studies

Seminar: From Slavery to Civil Rights


The American Civil War and African American Emancipation: A Documentary Analysis

Keysiah Middleton 2013
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, capitalism, Civil War, emancipation, History, Middle School, primary source documents

Freedom, Colorism, and Race and Place in the American South

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2013
Keywords: African American History, Colorism, Gens d’ Couleur, History, Homer Plessy, Middle, Mobile, New Orleans, Placage, St. Domingue

Economic Restrictions and Opportunities of Freed People

Bernadette McHenry 2013
Keywords: African American History, freedmen, High School, primary sources, Reconstruction, social studies

50 Years and Beyond:Philadelphia after the Emancipation Proclamation

Terry Anne Wildman 2013
Keywords: English, History, language arts, literacy, Pennsylvania History, social studies

“Everybody But Me”: The Historical Implications of the Struggle for Civil Rights on Culture, Education, and Politics in the 21st Century

Erin Bloom 2013
Keywords: African American History, civil rights, education, History, Politics, Slavery

Abraham Lincoln: Discovering an Iconic President

Teresa Coyle-Kahn 2013
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, African American History month, Government, Presidents

The Civil Rights Era

Richard P. Holmes 2013
Keywords: American History, civil rights, civil rights era

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Sew Me a Story: African and African American “Quilt Lore”

Kelly Graham 2008
Keywords: African American History, American History, elementary school, human experience, quilt, Quilt Lore, quilting, stories and designs, storytelling

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

Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories

Stephanie R. Wicks 2008
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling

Seminar: Listening to the Music of Contemporary Africa: History, Politics, and Human Origins


Critical Interventions into the Single Story of Africa

Pearl Jonas 2021
Keywords: Africa, African American History, Bias, Culture, Identity, Music, narrative, perspective, project-based, Single story, stereotypes, storytelling

Seminar: Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now


The Seminole and African Collaboration: An Alliance for Survival

Keysiah M. Middleton 2014
Keywords: Abraham, African American History, Alachua chief, American History, Andrew Jackson, Asi Yahola, Battle at Hatcheelustee Creek, Battle at Jupiter Inlet, Battle of Lockahatchee, Battle of Okeechobee, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Ben Bruner, Black Seminoles, Coacoochee, Colonial Florida, Dade’s Massacre, Destruction of St. John’s Sugar Plantations, Duncan Clinch, Edmund P. Gaines, First Battle of Withlacoochee, Francis L. Dade, freedom fighters, Geechee, Gullah, History, John Caesar, John Horse, La Florida, Luis Fatio Pacheco, Micanopy, Micconuppe, Mikasuki, Native American History, Negro Fort Massacre, Osceola, runaway slaves, Second Battle of Withlacoochee, Seige of Camp Izard, Seminole maroons, Seminoles, St. Augustine, St. John Slave Revolt, Thomas Sidney Jesup, Tuskegee, Wild Cat, Zachary Taylor

Seminar: New Approaches to the History of Slavery: The View from the Penn and Slavery Project


“Free To Be ME”

Charlene Jones 2020
Keywords: abolitionist, bullying, by-stander, campaign, Middle School, Slavery, students, up-standers

Can the New Histories of Slavery Create Compassion In Youth

Donna Butler-Jones 2020
Keywords: African American History, Black History month, Slavery

Welcome to America: Enslaved Diasporic and Indigenous People

Jeri Johnson, M.S. Ed., M.S. School Psychology 2020
Keywords: Afircan American History, American History, indigenous people, Slavery

Slavery: A Tough Lesson to Learn

Margo Pinckney-Wilson 2020
Keywords: diversity, poetry, Slavery

Forging A Connection: Releasing the Bondage of Internalized Oppression through Quality Social Studies Instruction

Sondra W. Gonzalez 2020
Keywords: abolitionist, internalized racism. vacant esteem. ever-present anger. racial socialization, Slavery

The Dis-Connection of Our Roots

Stephanie M. Robinson 2020
Keywords: African American History, roots, Slavery