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Lindsay Andreas

American Slave Narratives - 2 views

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shared by Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09
     
    The slave narrative project of the WPA in the 1930s is one of our greatest historical preservation efforts. Today, historians are scrambling around to preserve the narratives of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets, as they are rapidly leaving us. This is a good way to introduce the importance of oral histories. It would also be a good piece to start a lesson on evaluating primary sources.
David Hilton

California, First Person Narratives: General Collections - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 15 Sep 09
     
    "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
jbdrury

The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - 0 views

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shared by jbdrury on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
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      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      As this is a privately-owned website, I thought it important to provide a little info on its managers. This is taken from the Home Page information: " The History Place contains many examples of man's inhumanity to man as well as notable examples of humans rising to the occasion to fight tyranny and preserve freedom, and overall, reaffirms, in the words of the American Declaration of Independence, that all human beings have "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
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      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Although I don't doubt the veracity of much of the information on this site, I think it is important to keep in mind who is providing the information. Also from the home page: " The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy....The site was founded and is owned and published by Philip Gavin"
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      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      This account of the Potato Famine has multiple pages to flip through; I have started here as this is the page detailing the Irish flight to America.
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  • Coffin Ships
  • The first coffin ships headed for Quebec, Canad
  • Up to half of the men that survived the journey to Canada walked across the border to begin their new lives in America. They had no desire to live under the Union Jack flag in sparsely populated British North America
  • They viewed the United States with its anti-British tradition and its bustling young cities as the true land of opportunity
  • American ships were held to higher standards than British ships by the U.S. Passenger Acts, a set of laws passed by Congress regulating the number of passengers ships coming to America could carry as well as their minimal accommodations. Congress reacted to the surge of Irish immigration by tightening the laws, reducing the number of passengers allowed per ship, thereby increasing fares. America, congressmen had complained, was becoming Europe's "poor house."
  • During the trans-Atlantic voyage, British ships were only required to supply 7 lbs. of food per week per passenger
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Each page has a few of these contemporary images that could be used in the classroom.
  • Before boarding, they had been given the once-over by doctors on shore who usually rejected no one for the trip, even those seemingly on the verge of death
  • The poorest of the poor never made it to North Americ
  • Despite the dangers, the Irish knew that once they landed on Britain's shores they would not starve to death. Unlike Ireland, food handouts were freely available throughout the country
  • The cheap lodging houses were also used by scores of Irish waiting to embark on ships heading for North America. Three out of four Irish sailing for North America departed from the seaport at Liverpool. Normally they had to sleep over for a night or two until their ship was ready to sail. Many of these emigrants contracted typhus in the rundown, lice-infested lodging houses, then boarded ships, only to spend weeks suffering from burning fever out at sea.
  • jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
     
    The History Place is a privately-run website that provides content to educators on a wide variety of historical subject. I have included this section on the Irish Potato Famine, as it was one of the more compelling narratives I found on the internet.
kkasargodstaub

Cliques in Schools | Teaching Tolerance - 1 views

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shared by kkasargodstaub on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Cliques in Schools
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      kkasargodstaub on 20 Sep 10
       
      This is really valuable to social studies teachers because it brings issues students are facing into the classroom. It makes the education relevant.
    • kkasargodstaub
      kkasargodstaub on 20 Sep 10
       
      Teachers can use this to supplement social studies curriculum to make lessons meaningful
    • kkasargodstaub
      kkasargodstaub on 20 Sep 10
       
      This website relies on lots of different resources including primary documents as well as cartoons, narratives and posters. The types of sources depends on lesson plan.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    Ah, I see.
Scott Hambrick

American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 7 views

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shared by Scott Hambrick on 20 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Scott Hambrick on 20 Sep 12
     
    Contains histories from the Library of Congress by topic
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