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Punishment for Escape
These images show some of the brutal ways enslavers punished enslaved people who tried to escape.
January 28, 2020
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Resistance Through Escape
These images show enslaved people escaping their enslavers. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
January 28, 2020
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Music and Customs
These images show enslaved people singing as part of their work and recreational lives.
January 28, 2020
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Enslaved People at the Capitol
This image shows a group of enslaved men and children in front of the U.S. Capitol after much of it burned down in 1814.
January 28, 2020
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Jim Crow as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did Jim Crow function as a mechanism of racialized social control? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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Reconstruction
These images show how different people reacted to the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
January 28, 2020
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Mix It Up: Score One for Humanity
Two truths and one lie. That’s how Mix It Up at Lunch Day began at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich. Students sat down to lunch with people who were not in their usual social circle. As an icebreaker, students played a game in which one person told two truths and one lie: the rest of the group had to guess which statement was false.
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Pets Make Great Teachers of Compassion
Children can learn a thing or two from pets. They learn responsibility through feeding and caring for their furry friends. They learn about loss when their pets die and they partake in their first funeral rites.
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Rethinking Poverty and Casual Conversations
What "little" things do you do that might marginalize your students in poverty?
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Revealing Magical Powers in Reading
This year is the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's classic children's book James and the Giant Peach. In the story, 7-year-old orphan James Henry Trotter escapes his two rotten, abusive aunts by crawling into a giant peach, which rolls, floats and flies him to a new life of wonder and love.