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In this activity students analyze the lyrics to a popular Vietnam War protest song and discuss how music can be used to motivate people and for protest. Then students will create a new stanza for the protest song "I-Feel-Like-I'm Fixin'-To-Die Rag."
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
- Subject:
- Ethnic Studies
- History
- Social Science
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Provider Set:
- Primary Source Sets
- Author:
- Lakisha Odlum
- Date Added:
- 04/11/2016
This activity helps students navigate and make sense of the information available in the Five Points census database. In the activity, students use the database to test hypotheses about life and residents in the Five Points. For this activity, students will need access to a computer with an internet connection. This activity can be followed up with the activity Telling the Whole Story: Irish Americans in Five Points.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021
This collection uses primary sources to explore the United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
- Subject:
- Ethnic Studies
- History
- Social Science
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Provider Set:
- Primary Source Sets
- Author:
- Franky Abbott
- Date Added:
- 04/11/2016
In 1853, the City of New York set aside hundreds of acres of swampland in the middle of Manhattan, with the idea that this uninhabitable space could serve a practical, public purpose. Today, we know that area as Central Park, one of the most widely visited and celebrated public spaces in the country. The then-unknown park designer who won the bid to design Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, would go on to inspire and revolutionize urban park design in the United States. The work of Olmsted and other early parks pioneers, building on older concepts like town squares, would spur the growth of urban parks large and small nationwide. Benefiting from new innovations in design, these parks serve as community centers and defining features of cities and towns across the country. Urban parks have continually adapted to meet the needs of the publics they serve, evolving, for example, from places to simply enjoy nature into recreation sites that offer activities and equipment. More than just sites for leisure, they also play a broader role in supporting community engagement by providing places for civic participation, enhancing quality of life and property values, and offering safe, healthy, and convenient recreation options. This exhibition was created as part of the DPLAs Public Library Partnerships Project by collaborators from the Minnesota Digital Library. Exhibition Coordinator: Carla Urban.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Primary Source
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Provider Set:
- DPLA Exhibitions
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2015
In this activity, students will look at images from 1919 to explore the nature of the "Red Scare" of the World War I era, and think about it the context of current attitudes toward civil liberties since the September 11th attacks.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021
This collection uses primary sources to explore the War of 1812. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Provider:
- Digital Public Library of America
- Provider Set:
- Primary Source Sets
- Author:
- James Walsh
- Date Added:
- 01/20/2016
In this activity students will examine how attitudes towards slavery and the Civil War changed between 1860 and 1865. What began in the minds of President Lincoln and most northerners as a war to preserve the union changed, over the course of the war, into a war to free the slaves. This transformation occurred in large part because of the actions of enslaved and free African Americans themselves. Students will create a historical marker, based on historical evidence, that addresses the question: "What was the Civil War fought over?"
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021
This activity introduces students to the term Jim Crow and the concept of legally mandated racial segregation.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021
In this activity students analyze a Chinese-English phrasebook from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Students match phrases from the textbook to specific historical understandings, write their own historical understanding, and then generate possible phrases for immigrants to the United States today.
- Subject:
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- City University of New York
- Provider Set:
- Social History for Every Classroom
- Date Added:
- 07/07/2021