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MOOC | Eric Foner - The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1865 | Sections 1 through 8 ... - 0 views

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    Youtube Playlist Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War's long-term economic and intellectual impact. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865 narrates the history of the American Civil War. While the course examines individual engagements and the overall nature of the military conflict, the focus is less on the battlefield than on political, social, and economic change in the Union and the Confederacy. Central to the account are the road to emancipation, the role of black soldiers, the nature of Abraham Lincoln's wartime leadership, internal dissent in both the North and South, the changing position of women in both societies, and the war's long-term economic and intellectual impact. We end with a look at the beginnings of Reconstruction during the conflict. This course is part of the series, The Civil War and Reconstruction, which introduces students to the most pivotal era in American history. The Civil War transformed the nation by eliminating the threat of secession and destroying the institution of slavery. It raised questions that remain central to our understanding of ourselves as a people and a nation - the balance of power between local and national authority, the boundaries of citizenship, and the meanings of freedom and equality. The series will examine the causes of the war, the road to secession, the conduct of the Civil War, the coming of emancipation, and the struggle after the war to breathe meaning into the promise of freedom for four million emancipated slaves. One theme throughout the series is what might be called the politics of history - how the world in which a historian lives affects his or her view of the past, and how historical interpretations reinforce or challenge the social order of the present. See other courses in this series: The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1850-1861 The Civil War and Reconstruction - 1865-1890 "The Civil War and Recons
Bob Maloy

Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters? - 6 views

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    This material from Henry Louis Gates series, The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross, describes the efforts of a famous all Black regiment during World War I. These black soldiers returning from World War I received a hero's welcome, by blacks and whites alike, in New York City.
Joseph Phelan

New @ EDSITEment - 11 views

EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov the free high quality educational resource from the National Endowment for the Humanties has a new interface. We have over 500 primary source based lessons in...

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bryan pasquale

America's Black Founding Fathers - 8 views

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    Black founding fathers
Rhondda Powling

The Black Death in 90 Seconds: Next Vista for Learning - 3 views

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    A great short film on the Next Vista for Learning site. It is a short explanation of The Black Death and was created by a teacher in California. The video was a winning entry in one of Next Vista's video creation contests. An example of something I would like to emulate at my school.
Mr Maher

The Plantation in Brooklyn: Nate Salsbury's Black America Show | - 2 views

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    Would you believe that there were live-entertainment performances in the 1890s that depicted slave life in the "Old South" as a carefree, simplistic rural life? Students should know that they are learning about an era of history that was actively misrepresented for the entertainment of northerners. How does this shape mythic understandings of American history?
Eric Beckman

A History Lesson About "School Choice" During Reconstruction - 3 views

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    History Professor curated six excerpts from testimony before Congress about KKK intimidation of teachers and students at black schools during reconstruction.
Simon Miles

For Love of Liberty - The Story of America's Black Patriots - 12 views

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    A new PBS documentary For Love of Liberty : The Story of America's Black Patriots, details the military contributions of African Americans.
Betiana Caprioli

Brazilians Welcome Obama As Their Own : NPR - 4 views

  • "He looks more Brazilian than American."
  • Brazil was settled by waves of European immigrants and millions of African slaves brought there in chains. Their descendants make up the second-largest black population in the world after Nigeria.
  • there's no hiding the fact that blacks are worse off than whites.
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  • the new Brazil saw a former shoeshine boy and factory worker – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – win the presidency in 2002. Now his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, herself a former political prisoner, is president. Their dual policy of generating rapid economic growth and providing generous social programs helped lift 30 million people into the middle class.
  • The symbolism of a black American president will encourage people here like nothing else,
Sallee Humanities

Why the Black Death was the mother of all plagues - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting C... - 10 views

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    This one is at least recent - some good discussion and links after the article also.
David Korfhage

Interactive map: The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790-1860 - 13 views

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    An interactive map showing the spread of slavery. It gives you a variety of ways to look at the date (absolute numbers, percent of population, etc.) and also includes data for the free black population.
David Hilton

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - 0 views

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    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Lisa M Lane

SpeEdChange: The Very High Cost of Nostalgia - 7 views

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    Yes, the glorious United States of the 1950s. Surely it was all good back then, unless, of course, you were female, or black ("negro"), or Catholic or Jewish, or disabled, or poor. Or, if you were young. Of course we know that American "tea partiers" (even they seem to have discovered that "teabaggers" wasn't the right term) are as weak in the history department as they are on economics knowledge, but they are hardly alone in their belief in some wondrous mythical past...
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