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Going Beyond the Textbook
Teachers are using the textbook—and going beyond it—to change history education from the ground up.
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved (Introduction)
In this introduction, Alice Walker touches on ideas of activism, the strength of the individual, enlightenment, fear of being inferior and the conviction needed to embrace one's life.
July 7, 2014
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A Message From Our Director
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn emphasizes that “Teaching an honest history counters a prevailing narrative that denies the real origins of this country and maintains an unjust society.”
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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
In this text, we learn about James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, who obtained his freedom only for a creditor to threaten him with enslavement. The text describes his experience working off his debt by privateering in the Caribbean while he expressed his dream to relocate to London, England.
December 15, 2017
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An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774
With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.
December 15, 2017
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The House That Jeff Built
This work is an extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern system of slavery. It consists of 12 vignettes with accompanying verse.
December 15, 2017
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Nat Turner, Freedom Fighter
Nat Turner was an American freedom fighter who led one of history’s most successful revolts by enslaved people in Southampton County, VA.
January 8, 2019
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The Straight Story
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on governmental executions.
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Learning from the 'Love Mail'
Curriculum specialist and writer Jeff Sapp on starting a conversation in the face of pushback and ignorance.
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Ted and Me: In Memoriam
Like many, if not most, I had a rough first year as a teacher. I was 21 years old and full of passion and desire but little else. I had survived student teaching on the Navajo Reservation for six months, but arrived on the other side of that experience with much to learn. I was teaching two-hour blocks of seventh-grade history and English. I was struggling on almost every level in almost every area.