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Unit TitleAuthorYear

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


Whispering Rivers: Whatever Happened to the Indians of Pennsylvania?

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2014
Keywords: American History, Historical Context, History, Native American, Native American History, Native American issues, Native Americans, Pennsylvania History, Political Activism, Political thought, political unrest

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


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

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


The Immigrant Journey to Philadelphia

Jonathan Williams 2008
Keywords: American History, cultural opposition, Europe to Philadelphia, Golden Door, immigrant experience in Philadelphia, immigrants, immigrants journey, Lazaretto, social studies

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

The Panama Canal: Path to Global Destiny

Patrick Naughton 2015
Keywords: American History, Empire, engineering, Geography, Panama Canal, Roosevelt, Socratic Seminar, yellow fever

The Overreach of the American Empire in the War for Vietnam

Sydney Hunt Coffin 2015
Keywords: American empire, American History, Memorial Day, vietnam war

Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?

Meagan C. Rubino 2015
Keywords: American empire, American History, Empire, Puerto Rico

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Possible Worlds (II)

Kate Reber 2008
Keywords: American History, Bloodchild, Brave New World, Humanities, interdisciplinary, Math, possible world, Science, Technology, world history

Science Fiction of the Fifties: Reflections of Cold War Themes

Steven Shust 2008
Keywords: American History, Cold War, cold war culture, cold war politics, cold war technology, conformity, control, destruction through the lens of science fiction, fear, films, History, novels, science fiction, themes of alientation

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

Seminar: The Marcellus Shale and Pennsylvania: Energy, Money, Trout


Marcellus Shale: Finding Common Ground

Troy J. Holiday 2011
Keywords: American History, Environmental Science, geology, marcellus shale

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


African American History as told through African American Music

Sue Christmas 2011
Keywords: African American music, American History, Media, Music