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Unit TitleAuthorYear

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


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

Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience


Germantown PA: Researching the Great Road Welcome Mat

Barbara McDowell Dowdall 2008
Keywords: 9th grade, African, Daniel Pastorious, Dutch trading company, English 1, Germantown, Irish, Italian, Philadelphia

Give and Take from the Great Demographic Fact: A Vagarious Look At Commercial Influence over Cultural Exchange in 20th- and 21st-century Philadelphia

Chadd S. Johnson 2008
Keywords: clothing trade in Africa, commerce, commercial influence, cultural imperialism, data analysis, History, migration, personal narrative, Philadelphia, worker migration

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

The Peopling of Philadelphia: 19th Century Immigration

Mona Kolsky 2008
Keywords: 19th Century Immigration, advertisements, Graphs, industrial city, Lazaretto Quarantine Station, national trends, Philadelphia, photographs, political cartoons, ship manifests, stereotyping

Bound Labor in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe 2008
Keywords: apprentice, apprenticeships, bound labor, Colonial Philadelphia, immigrants, indentured servants, Philadelphia, redemptioners, servitude, workforce

Seminar: Philadelphia: A 300-Year History


The Black Press and the Philadelphia Tribune

Florence B. Oliver 2006
Keywords: Democratic Society, Media, Philadelphia Tribune, Press, society

Seminar: Robotics for Everyone!


Influencing Environmental Policy with Real Data

Meagan C. Rubino 2014
Keywords: Energy Efficiency, Environmental Science, Government, History, legislation

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


“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

Why Isn’t Puerto Rico a State Yet?

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

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Weaving for Healing and Connection

Karen Rufino 2021
Keywords: Diné, Hozhó, Native American, Navajo, reservation, Spider Woman, tribe, weabing

Telling Stories and Making Connections Through Clay

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Art, clay, Indigenous Pottery, pottery, Pueblo, storytelling

Seminar: Teaching Science with Science Fiction


Science, Science Fiction and American History

Myrtle Bastien 2008
Keywords: Civil War, fiction, History, invention, ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimac, naval warfare, science fiction, secret weapon, submarine

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 Aesthetics of Hip Hop


Hip Hop Notions

Audrey J. Jackson 2008
Keywords: African American painters, break dancing, Bronx, expressive performance, fashion, hip hop life style, hip-hop, Jamaica, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kingston, listening, rap music, rhyming, speaking, Visual Art, visual graffiti, writing, youth culture