Using Sheet Music to Bring History to Life
Posted by: Danna Bell
Have you used sheet music with your classes? It provides a different angle to study events in history.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860)
Category: National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860)
The Pemberton Mill Collapse and Changes in Engineering Design
Posted by: Danna Bell
Study the Pemberton Mill building collapse to see how engineering design mistakes led to disaster.
Posted in: National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860), Science Technology and Math
Primary Sources and April Fool’s Day: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Hoaxes... have a different intent, as they are engineered to deceive over the long term, and often on a large scale. Invite your students to consider the difference as they analyze primary sources connected to the Great Moon Hoax of 1825.
Posted in: Holidays, National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860), Science Technology and Math
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Fugitive Slave Act
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was widely influential when it was published in 1852. The Library's “Sources and Strategies” article in the May 2014 issue of Social Education, the journal of NCSS, discusses the influence of the novel. Perhaps just as important as its effect, however, was Stowe’s original impetus for writing it.
Posted in: National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860), Poetry and Literature
12 Years a Slave: Primary Sources on the Kidnapping of Free African Americans
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Currently 12 Years a Slave, the film version of the true story of Solomon Northup, is showing in theaters. His account is a powerful one: A free African American, Northup was kidnapped in 1841 and taken from New York to Washington, D.C., then to New Orleans, where he was sold into twelve years of slavery. A study of primary sources from the Library of Congress indicates that Northrup's experience was far from unique.
Posted in: African American History, National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860)