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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Music and Healing in Philadelphia


Music’s Effect on Community Resilience

Theresa Eck 2023
Keywords: Advanced Placement U.S. History aka APUSH, analyzing historical evidence, free black communities in the early republic, Music, music’s effect on history, Philadelphia history, social emotional learning in history

Music History from Philadelphia and the Emotional Being and Effect of Music on the Brain

Michelle Jackson 2023
Keywords: brain, Emotional Being, local artists, local history, Music, Music History, Philadelphia, public schools

MUSIC IS… JOY! LOVE! HEALING!

Karen Brinkley 2023
Keywords: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Music, Philadelphia International Records

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


The Lenni-Lenape People: Yesterday and Today

Terry Anne Wildman 2014
Keywords: History, Lenni-Lenape People, NAGPRA, Native American Voices Exhibit

Children of the Earth: Native American Identity, Sacred Places and Ties to the Landscape

Erin Bloom 2014
Keywords: anthropology, landscape, Native American issues, sacred places

The Navajo Code Talkers

Richard P. Holmes 2014
Keywords: Code Breakers, Native American, Navajo, World War II

Native American Music and Living Legends

Cynthia Cozette Lee 2014
Keywords: biographies, contemporary, crossover, History, Native American music, percussion instruments, traditional

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

The Geography of the Lenape Diaspora

Peter Morse 2014
Keywords: Delaware, diaspora, Lenape

The Progression from Ancestral Pueblo to Pueblo of Today

Cara Wallin 2014
Keywords: Ancestral Pueblo, cliff dwellings, Culture, four corners, History, Pueblo Indians

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


“Free To Be ME”

Charlene Jones 2020
Keywords: abolitionist, bullying, by-stander, campaign, Middle School, Slavery, students, up-standers

Can the New Histories of Slavery Create Compassion In Youth

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

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

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?


Why Do You Ask? An Introduction to Interview & Survey Methodology

Kate Reber 2009
Keywords: 12th grade, Bradley Effect, election polls, Ex-Slaves, exploring bias in research, Graduation Project, interview, research based, research methodologies, research strategies, research topics, School of the Future, service-learning project, skill building, survey, West Philadelphia

Is Seeing Believing?

Rita Sorrentino 2009
Keywords: camera, digital age, photography

How Do You Know Anything About the Civil War?

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