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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

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

From Cornrow Village to Corporate City I

Valerie A. Quarterman 2008
Keywords: African American culture, African American History

From Cornrow Village to Corporate City II Culturally-Based Classroom Guidance for Transitioning High School Students

Karon S. Waters 2008
Keywords: African American History, High School

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


How Music and Song has Influenced Political Change in Africa and the United States

Carmen R. Carrion M.Ed. 2021
Keywords: African American History, African music, Music

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: Modern and Contemporary U.S. Poetry


Teaching African-American History Through Contemporary Modern Poetry

Chanelle Harley 2019
Keywords: African American culture, African American History, modern poetry, poetry

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


Can the New Histories of Slavery Create Compassion In Youth

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

The Dis-Connection of Our Roots

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

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on 18th Century Philadelphia

Keysiah M. Middleton 2015
Keywords: 18th century Philadelphia, 18th century Philadelphia merchants, affranchise, African American History, American History, big whites, class division in Saint Domingue, Code Noir of 1685, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, eleventh grade American History, Exclusif, francophone, free people of color, French negroes in Philadelphia, French slaves in Philadelphia, gens de couleur libres, Girondists, Global Studies, grands blancs, Haiti, Haitian rebellion, Haitian Revolution, Haitians in Philadelphia, high school history, Jacques Pierre Brissot, literature of Haitian Revolution, Middle school social studies, ninth grade World History, petits blancs, petty whites, Philadelphia 18th century history, Polverel, Saint Dominguan slaves in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue civil war, Saint Domingue rebellion, Saint Domingue refugees in Philadelphia, Saint Domingue slave revolution, slave uprising, small whites, Societie des Amis des Noir, Sonthonax, Stephen Girard, tenth grade African American History, world history

“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: That's My Song! Musical Genre as Social Contract


Jazz as Black History: Teaching African American History Through Musicology

Matthew Menschner 2017
Keywords: African American History, American History, Bebop, Grades 9-12, Jazz, Jazz History, Jazz Studies, Literature, Music History, Music Studies, Musicology, Swing Music, The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, World War II

From Civil Rights to #BlackLivesMatter: The Music Is the Movement

Amanda Schear 2017
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights Movement, Compare and contrast, Informational text, literacy, Music, Protest movements, Protest music, Social change, social justice

Music as Activism: Warrior’s Don’t Cry and Protest in the Civil Rights Movement

Renae Curless 2017
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Civil Rights Movement, integration, little rock, melba patillo beals, Music, poetry, racism, segregation

Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond


Philadelphia’s Relationship to the Harlem Renaissance

Keysiah M. Middleton 2006
Keywords: African American History, Harlem Renaissance, New Negro Movement, Philadelphia

Seminar: Visual Art and Society


Linguistic meanings through figurative language in Langston Hughes’s poetry, Faith Ringgold’s quilts/textiles and Romare Bearden’s collages

Kemo Logan 2006
Keywords: African American History, American History, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Romare Bearden

Seminar: W.E.B. Du Bois and Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward


“Rare Ability and Devotion”: Elizabeth Tyler, first visiting Black nurse of Philadelphia, as Counter-Narrative

Danina Garcia 2023
Keywords: African American History, Henrietta Lacks, Medical History, Medicine, Nursing History, Philadelphia, Tuberculosis

Seminar: Who Are Those People and Why Are They Listening to That Music


Stop The Violence: Music is the Message

Regina Perrulli 2011
Keywords: African American History, Music, rap, Slavery, violence