Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: American Political Culture
Early Abolitionists in Philadelphia	Sandy O’Keefe	2009
Keywords: 8th grade, abolitionists, African American, anti-slavery, Colonial America, end to slavery, Philadelphia, Quakers
Civil Rights Era and the African American Experience: Investigating American History through a Literary Lens	Erin Swan-Potras	2009
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, African American figures, Alabama, American Civil Rights Movement, Birmingham, Children's March, Civil Rights Movement, commercialism, discrimination, Historical Context, Music, political context, segregation, social context, Technology, video
Philadelphia 1793: Yellow Fever, Race, Medicine and Politics	Mona Kolsky	2009
Keywords: History, Medicine, Philadelphia, race, yellow fever
Seminar: American Racial Politics
Race and Politics of Redistricting Who Will Win?	Vicki Baker	2012
Keywords: African American History, America, civics, Politics, race
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
Strange Fruit – Metaphors, Music and Place – Jazz and Hip Hop as Reflective of the Times	Samuel A. Reed, III	2007
Keywords: Art, Culture, hip-hop, Jazz, lyrics, Music, popular culture, Reading, social studies, society, videos, writing
The Harlem Renaissance	Richard P. Holmes	2007
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	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
The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity	Pamela Toller	2007
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate
Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography
Have You Ever Told That Story Before? Student Biographers Asking Important Life Questions, Preserving Memories and Writing History	Joyce Arnosky	2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, language arts, social studies, writing
The Philadelphia Wax Museum: Exploring the History of a City Through Different Points of View	Tia D. Larese	2016
Keywords: biography, elementary, History, Philadelphia, revolutionary war, social studies, wax museum
The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography	Keysiah M. Middleton	2016
Keywords: High School, social studies
Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights
The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement	Pearl Jonas	2020
Keywords: American History, Civil Rights Movement, film, History
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: Democracy and Expertise in Science, History and Literature
How the Humanities and Social Sciences Address Today’s Political Divide	Alexander de Arana	2021
Keywords: History, Humanities, identity politics, political divide, social sciences, social studies
Power and the Past: A Philosophical Approach to Historiography	Matthew Menschner	2021
Keywords: Epistemology, Historical Thinking Skills, historiography, History, philosophy, 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