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Unit TitleAuthorYear

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


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

Seminar: Oats, Kings, Proofs, and Climate Change: How Do You Know?


How Do You Know Anything About the Civil War?

Meagan C. McGowan 2009
Keywords: Civil War, History, How do you know?

Seminar: Origami Engineering


Phila-Gami: Philadelphia Themed Folding in the Math Classroom

Catherine Michini 2018
Keywords: Alexander Calder, Art, fold-and-cut, geometry, Math, Mobile, origami, Philadelphia, Pi Day, pop-up card, STEAM

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

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: Philosophy, Science & Society


Making Philosophic Ideas Visible: Connecting the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Alexander de Arana 2018
Keywords: Age of Enlightenment, Critical thinking, Foundations of Government, French Revolution, Political thought, Social Contract, social studies

Philosophy in the Social Contract and Forms of Government

Taylor Franko 2018
Keywords: Analyzing arguments, Critical thinking, philosophy, Political thought, Questioning, social studies

Seminar: Physics in the Arts


Atomic Structure

Stuart Surrey 2007
Keywords: atom, Chemistry, college prep, elementary particles, Greek philosophers, laboratory experiments, Math, physicists

Seminar: Roots of the American Empire


How to Win a War Without Even Shooting: Haitian Revolution Strategy

Lynn Gourinski Fahr 2015
Keywords: cholera, disease preventions, Haiti, high school history, History, middle school history, revolution strategies, yellow fever

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

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


Representing our Blessings on Pottery Inspired by Southwestern Native American Art

Allison Aubry 2021
Keywords: Art, blessings, clay tools, coil pot, motif, narrative, Native American, pinch pot, pottery, pottery wheel, Pueblo Pottery, secondary, slab, symbolism, symbols, well wishes

The Navajo, the Pueblos and Me

Jennifer Gallagher 2021
Keywords: “The Long Walk”, Art, clay, fry bread, hogan, Native Americans, Navajo, pottery, Pueblo, Southwest, textiles, tradition and culture, weaving

Does Breaking It Down, Break It?: A look at holism’s effect on Euro/Indigenous Relations

Theresa Lord 2021
Keywords: analytic, colonization, divergent worldviews, Holistic, indigenous/U.S. relations, Navajo, primary sources, Pueblo, secondary sources, thesis writing