This document provides an overview of the ProQuest History Vault database. It summarizes that the database provides access to archival collections from various institutions across the United States, including the National Archives and Library of Congress. These archival records are unique unpublished documents that are organized to preserve the original archival context. The document describes some of the collections available in the database related to topics like slavery, the civil rights movement, women's rights, and the Vietnam War. It also outlines upcoming expansions to the database in 2013.
History vault-black-freedom-naacp-researchProQuest
ProQuest offers researchers an amazing collection of resources on the NAACP and the Black Freedom Movement. This presentation lists 75 topics that can be research using ProQuest History Vault and other ProQuest resources. Many of the 75 topics can be divided into multiple other topics. Several years ago, for example, in a discussion with one of our advisers, it was suggested that there should be a thesis or dissertation on almost every NAACP branch. there are more than 200 NAACP branches document in the NAACP Papers collection in History Vault.
ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizati...ProQuest
In October 2014, ProQuest published its latest module in ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2.
This module is highlighted by the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), records of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 is the 9th module on ProQuest History Vault focusing on the 20th century fight for civil rights. It joins 2 earlier modules in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century Series, as well as 6 modules of the NAACP Papers. With the publication of Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2, ProQuest History Vault now includes major collections on SNCC, CORE, NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), arguably the four most important civil rights organizations of the 1960s.
The following slides show images from the collections in Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2
Documenting a Century of Civil Rights Activism. Working with the NAACP Papers...ProQuest
NAACP Papers is one of History Vault’s top collections and it is an outstanding collection for the study of the civil rights movement. In this presentation use cases from universities are presented.
History Vault Black Freedom and NAACP Use CasesProQuest
ProQuest offers various resources for researching topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the History Vault collections, newspapers, and ebooks. The document provides examples of four potential research topics - the Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights organizations and voting rights, African Americans in the military, and the 1963 March on Washington - and suggests relevant primary sources within ProQuest to investigate each topic.
History Vault Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the...ProQuest
Presentation showing documents in the History Vault module entitled Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. This module consists of 14 collections sourced by ProQuest from the Wisconsin Historical Society.Presentation showing documents in the History Vault module entitled Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. This module consists of 14 collections sourced by ProQuest from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th CenturyProQuest
The document summarizes the contents of the ProQuest History Vault module "Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2". The module contains records from key civil rights organizations like SNCC and CORE, as well as papers of individuals involved in the movement like Robert F. Williams. It provides images and examples of primary sources within the collections.
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Researching this pivotal event...ProQuest
On August 28, 1963, an estimated 250,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. During the march, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered his now famous “I have a dream” speech, a speech that 50 years later continues to be one of the most famous speeches in American History.
On the 50th anniversary of the March, ProQuest staff is looking back at the 1963 March via ProQuest History Vault
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971ProQuest
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 is part of ProQuest History Vault’s category of collections on American Politics and Society.
This module consists of a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration.
One of the highlights of this module is the focus on American Indians in the first half of the 20th century, a period that has not been studied in as much detail as the calamitous 19th century.
The two major collections from the 20th Century are the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition, there are a number of excellent collections on American Indians in the 19th century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. Federal government and Indian tribes, particularly in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Other records highlight the tensions caused by westward expansion of the post-Civil War years. A series of records on Indian Removal to the West rounds out this collection, consisting of letters and reports by Indian agents, government employees, individual Indians and other citizens about the removal process.
History vault-black-freedom-naacp-researchProQuest
ProQuest offers researchers an amazing collection of resources on the NAACP and the Black Freedom Movement. This presentation lists 75 topics that can be research using ProQuest History Vault and other ProQuest resources. Many of the 75 topics can be divided into multiple other topics. Several years ago, for example, in a discussion with one of our advisers, it was suggested that there should be a thesis or dissertation on almost every NAACP branch. there are more than 200 NAACP branches document in the NAACP Papers collection in History Vault.
ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizati...ProQuest
In October 2014, ProQuest published its latest module in ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2.
This module is highlighted by the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), records of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 is the 9th module on ProQuest History Vault focusing on the 20th century fight for civil rights. It joins 2 earlier modules in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century Series, as well as 6 modules of the NAACP Papers. With the publication of Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2, ProQuest History Vault now includes major collections on SNCC, CORE, NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), arguably the four most important civil rights organizations of the 1960s.
The following slides show images from the collections in Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2
Documenting a Century of Civil Rights Activism. Working with the NAACP Papers...ProQuest
NAACP Papers is one of History Vault’s top collections and it is an outstanding collection for the study of the civil rights movement. In this presentation use cases from universities are presented.
History Vault Black Freedom and NAACP Use CasesProQuest
ProQuest offers various resources for researching topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the History Vault collections, newspapers, and ebooks. The document provides examples of four potential research topics - the Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights organizations and voting rights, African Americans in the military, and the 1963 March on Washington - and suggests relevant primary sources within ProQuest to investigate each topic.
History Vault Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the...ProQuest
Presentation showing documents in the History Vault module entitled Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. This module consists of 14 collections sourced by ProQuest from the Wisconsin Historical Society.Presentation showing documents in the History Vault module entitled Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. This module consists of 14 collections sourced by ProQuest from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th CenturyProQuest
The document summarizes the contents of the ProQuest History Vault module "Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2". The module contains records from key civil rights organizations like SNCC and CORE, as well as papers of individuals involved in the movement like Robert F. Williams. It provides images and examples of primary sources within the collections.
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Researching this pivotal event...ProQuest
On August 28, 1963, an estimated 250,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. During the march, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered his now famous “I have a dream” speech, a speech that 50 years later continues to be one of the most famous speeches in American History.
On the 50th anniversary of the March, ProQuest staff is looking back at the 1963 March via ProQuest History Vault
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971ProQuest
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 is part of ProQuest History Vault’s category of collections on American Politics and Society.
This module consists of a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration.
One of the highlights of this module is the focus on American Indians in the first half of the 20th century, a period that has not been studied in as much detail as the calamitous 19th century.
The two major collections from the 20th Century are the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition, there are a number of excellent collections on American Indians in the 19th century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. Federal government and Indian tribes, particularly in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Other records highlight the tensions caused by westward expansion of the post-Civil War years. A series of records on Indian Removal to the West rounds out this collection, consisting of letters and reports by Indian agents, government employees, individual Indians and other citizens about the removal process.
ProQuest offers several resources that can help students complete research on topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the ProQuest History Vault, Black Historical Newspapers, and the NAACP Papers. These collections contain primary sources from civil rights organizations, government records, personal papers, and African American newspapers that can be used to research topics such as the history of the NAACP and other organizations, important people and events in the civil rights movement, and forms of racial discrimination. The document provides 75 example research topics that could be explored using these ProQuest sources.
ProQuest offers many resources for researching topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the History Vault collections, newspapers, and ebooks. Specifically mentioned are the NAACP Papers and records from the FBI, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality that provide primary sources on events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans in the military, voting rights efforts, and the 1963 March on Washington.
This document outlines the schedule and program details for the 2016 Graduate History Conference hosted by the History Graduate Student Association at Louisiana State University on March 4-5, 2016. The conference included several panels on Friday and Saturday covering various historical topics. Keynote speakers were Professor John D'Emilio on Friday evening and a panel discussion on teaching LGBT history on Saturday. The document provides titles and presenters for each panel session as well as biographical information about the keynote speakers.
This document provides an overview of McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the United States during the 1950s. It discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who accused many citizens of being communists or communist sympathizers. People were blacklisted or lost their jobs. The period led to fears and restrictions on free speech. It also references Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which was an allegory for McCarthyism.
Telling & Circulating History on Stampssheilabrennan
Through its commemorative stamp program, the US Post Office Department printed and circulated historical narratives on stamp. Citizens and stamp collectors noticed these images and scenes represented and wanted their heroes and regional anniversaries honored with a commemorative, because it represented a federally-sanctioned narrative.
African American History Month Pictorial PresentationQHathawayHervey
The document outlines 7 themes and corresponding grade/course standards for teaching about the history of African Americans and the civil rights movement:
1. Themes cover early African history, slavery and suffering, progress from slavery to freedom, reconstruction and segregation, achievements and leaders, and the modern civil rights movement.
2. Standards address the development of the slave trade, the Dred Scott decision, the role of blacks in gaining freedom, the leadership and ideas of significant African Americans, and the importance of culture in the fight against segregation.
3. Additional standards examine racism in the late 19th century, key events and effects of the civil rights movement, and political, social, and cultural developments among African Americans
Students will learn about the many roles that Washington engaged in throughout his life and create their own “George Washington’s trunk” of objects that reflect these activities
History Connected Workshops and Institutes 2010-2011Kara Gleason
This document summarizes a grant-funded professional development program for middle and high school U.S. history teachers called "History Connected." The program focuses on the theme of "War, Society, State, and Citizenship" from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War. It includes school day seminars taught by historians, book discussion groups, and a summer institute providing learning opportunities, resources, and graduate credit or PDPs for participating teachers.
Students will use primary images as a model for creating their own "display" of states and choosing a "centerpiece" that defines our nation today. This lesson can accompany the distance learning broadcast, Primarily George.
This document discusses using an inquiry-based approach to teach students about the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956. It provides guidance on developing an essential question to focus the inquiry, such as "Why did Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat spark a national controversy?". Teachers are encouraged to have students explore this question by examining primary sources related to Parks' arrest and the launching of the bus boycott to understand why it became a matter of national importance. The document outlines steps for students to interrogate sources, consider different perspectives, and develop their writing skills to explain what they learned.
Women's history secondary resources march 2011[1]mediaminx
The document provides resources for Women's History Month, including online databases that contain encyclopedia articles, primary sources, multimedia files, and lesson plans on topics like women's suffrage and equal rights. It lists several databases like Grolier Online, Facts on File Online, Gale, SIRS Knowledge Source, and World Book Online that contain these reference materials. It also includes some related websites for further information on celebrating Women's History Month.
This document provides resources for teaching about the 1969 moon landing, including sources and materials about the space race between the US and USSR. It discusses using documents and photographs in case studies and questions to analyze historical significance. Key concepts covered are technological development, military spending, and the leadership of Kennedy and Johnson. The document aims to help students understand the political and scientific factors that led the US to be the first to land on the moon.
February Highlights in U.S. Women's HistoryCarole Argo
History helps us learn who we are, but when we don’t know our own history, our power and dreams are immediately diminished. The National Women’s History Project recognizes and celebrates the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing informational services and educational and promotional materials. In honoring and celebrating women across the world, Carole Argo lists some of the Top Highlights in US Women’s History for the month of February
Portugal colonized Brazil for over 300 years, profoundly shaping Brazil's culture, language, religion, and economy. Portugal established Portuguese as Brazil's dominant language and spread Christianity throughout Brazil. The colonization also led to the growth of the slave trade as Portuguese colonists developed large sugar plantations and mines, importing African slaves as laborers. Over time, Brazil grew powerful enough that it broke from Portuguese rule and became an independent nation in 1822, though cultural and economic ties between the two countries still remain strong today.
Portugal colonized Brazil for over 300 years, profoundly shaping Brazil's culture, language, religion, and economy. Portugal established Portuguese as Brazil's dominant language and spread Christianity throughout Brazil. The colonization also led to the growth of the slave trade as Portuguese colonists developed large sugar plantations and mines, importing African slaves as laborers. When Brazil gained independence from Portugal in 1822, it had built close economic and cultural ties with its former colonizer through trade and shared heritage.
AAPB as a Digital Library for Teaching Media LiteracyRyn Marchese
Webinar with Professors Kathryn Ostrofsky and Joshua Glick about using AAPB as a Digital Library for Teaching Media Literacy.
More information at https://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/upcoming-webinar-oct-16th-aapb-as-a-digital-library-for-teaching-media-literacy/.
Education was essential for African Americans to define their own culture after emancipation from slavery according to Foner's thesis. Education united former slaves and free black men while also establishing courageous community leaders to aid the progress towards total equal rights. Taking initiative to acquire wisdom through education with the aid of organizations and community despite opposition was central to achieving freedom and unity between North and South. The rapid educational progress of African Americans in the years after the Civil War represented "a century in a year."
This document summarizes a Teaching American History grant program that provides professional development for middle and high school U.S. history teachers. The three-year, $999,818 grant aims to improve teacher knowledge of history through seminars, book discussions, and summer institutes focusing on themes of equality, citizenship, war and society, and American cultural encounters. Teachers can receive honoraria of $1,600 or $800 for participating in various program elements, including seminars, discussions, and producing required work. Graduate credits are also available for participation.
World Conflicts - 20th Century Military and Political Events. U.S. Military I...ProQuest
ProQuest® History Vault U.S. Military Intelligence Reports collection offers comprehensive documentation of developments and events in the key nations of the world during the period from World War I to the final campaigns of World War II. This presentation covers use cases for this exciting collection.
This document discusses what history is and why it is important to study. It defines history as a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events. Key reasons to study history include: to understand the roots of our current culture, learn from past mistakes, examine trends that repeat throughout history, learn historical facts, and understand how society has been shaped over time. The document outlines that historians investigate the past through a variety of primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were created during the time period being studied, while secondary sources interpret and analyze primary sources.
ProQuest offers several resources that can help students complete research on topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the ProQuest History Vault, Black Historical Newspapers, and the NAACP Papers. These collections contain primary sources from civil rights organizations, government records, personal papers, and African American newspapers that can be used to research topics such as the history of the NAACP and other organizations, important people and events in the civil rights movement, and forms of racial discrimination. The document provides 75 example research topics that could be explored using these ProQuest sources.
ProQuest offers many resources for researching topics related to the Black freedom struggle and civil rights movement in the 20th century, including the History Vault collections, newspapers, and ebooks. Specifically mentioned are the NAACP Papers and records from the FBI, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality that provide primary sources on events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans in the military, voting rights efforts, and the 1963 March on Washington.
This document outlines the schedule and program details for the 2016 Graduate History Conference hosted by the History Graduate Student Association at Louisiana State University on March 4-5, 2016. The conference included several panels on Friday and Saturday covering various historical topics. Keynote speakers were Professor John D'Emilio on Friday evening and a panel discussion on teaching LGBT history on Saturday. The document provides titles and presenters for each panel session as well as biographical information about the keynote speakers.
This document provides an overview of McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the United States during the 1950s. It discusses Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who accused many citizens of being communists or communist sympathizers. People were blacklisted or lost their jobs. The period led to fears and restrictions on free speech. It also references Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which was an allegory for McCarthyism.
Telling & Circulating History on Stampssheilabrennan
Through its commemorative stamp program, the US Post Office Department printed and circulated historical narratives on stamp. Citizens and stamp collectors noticed these images and scenes represented and wanted their heroes and regional anniversaries honored with a commemorative, because it represented a federally-sanctioned narrative.
African American History Month Pictorial PresentationQHathawayHervey
The document outlines 7 themes and corresponding grade/course standards for teaching about the history of African Americans and the civil rights movement:
1. Themes cover early African history, slavery and suffering, progress from slavery to freedom, reconstruction and segregation, achievements and leaders, and the modern civil rights movement.
2. Standards address the development of the slave trade, the Dred Scott decision, the role of blacks in gaining freedom, the leadership and ideas of significant African Americans, and the importance of culture in the fight against segregation.
3. Additional standards examine racism in the late 19th century, key events and effects of the civil rights movement, and political, social, and cultural developments among African Americans
Students will learn about the many roles that Washington engaged in throughout his life and create their own “George Washington’s trunk” of objects that reflect these activities
History Connected Workshops and Institutes 2010-2011Kara Gleason
This document summarizes a grant-funded professional development program for middle and high school U.S. history teachers called "History Connected." The program focuses on the theme of "War, Society, State, and Citizenship" from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War. It includes school day seminars taught by historians, book discussion groups, and a summer institute providing learning opportunities, resources, and graduate credit or PDPs for participating teachers.
Students will use primary images as a model for creating their own "display" of states and choosing a "centerpiece" that defines our nation today. This lesson can accompany the distance learning broadcast, Primarily George.
This document discusses using an inquiry-based approach to teach students about the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956. It provides guidance on developing an essential question to focus the inquiry, such as "Why did Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat spark a national controversy?". Teachers are encouraged to have students explore this question by examining primary sources related to Parks' arrest and the launching of the bus boycott to understand why it became a matter of national importance. The document outlines steps for students to interrogate sources, consider different perspectives, and develop their writing skills to explain what they learned.
Women's history secondary resources march 2011[1]mediaminx
The document provides resources for Women's History Month, including online databases that contain encyclopedia articles, primary sources, multimedia files, and lesson plans on topics like women's suffrage and equal rights. It lists several databases like Grolier Online, Facts on File Online, Gale, SIRS Knowledge Source, and World Book Online that contain these reference materials. It also includes some related websites for further information on celebrating Women's History Month.
This document provides resources for teaching about the 1969 moon landing, including sources and materials about the space race between the US and USSR. It discusses using documents and photographs in case studies and questions to analyze historical significance. Key concepts covered are technological development, military spending, and the leadership of Kennedy and Johnson. The document aims to help students understand the political and scientific factors that led the US to be the first to land on the moon.
February Highlights in U.S. Women's HistoryCarole Argo
History helps us learn who we are, but when we don’t know our own history, our power and dreams are immediately diminished. The National Women’s History Project recognizes and celebrates the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing informational services and educational and promotional materials. In honoring and celebrating women across the world, Carole Argo lists some of the Top Highlights in US Women’s History for the month of February
Portugal colonized Brazil for over 300 years, profoundly shaping Brazil's culture, language, religion, and economy. Portugal established Portuguese as Brazil's dominant language and spread Christianity throughout Brazil. The colonization also led to the growth of the slave trade as Portuguese colonists developed large sugar plantations and mines, importing African slaves as laborers. Over time, Brazil grew powerful enough that it broke from Portuguese rule and became an independent nation in 1822, though cultural and economic ties between the two countries still remain strong today.
Portugal colonized Brazil for over 300 years, profoundly shaping Brazil's culture, language, religion, and economy. Portugal established Portuguese as Brazil's dominant language and spread Christianity throughout Brazil. The colonization also led to the growth of the slave trade as Portuguese colonists developed large sugar plantations and mines, importing African slaves as laborers. When Brazil gained independence from Portugal in 1822, it had built close economic and cultural ties with its former colonizer through trade and shared heritage.
AAPB as a Digital Library for Teaching Media LiteracyRyn Marchese
Webinar with Professors Kathryn Ostrofsky and Joshua Glick about using AAPB as a Digital Library for Teaching Media Literacy.
More information at https://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/upcoming-webinar-oct-16th-aapb-as-a-digital-library-for-teaching-media-literacy/.
Education was essential for African Americans to define their own culture after emancipation from slavery according to Foner's thesis. Education united former slaves and free black men while also establishing courageous community leaders to aid the progress towards total equal rights. Taking initiative to acquire wisdom through education with the aid of organizations and community despite opposition was central to achieving freedom and unity between North and South. The rapid educational progress of African Americans in the years after the Civil War represented "a century in a year."
This document summarizes a Teaching American History grant program that provides professional development for middle and high school U.S. history teachers. The three-year, $999,818 grant aims to improve teacher knowledge of history through seminars, book discussions, and summer institutes focusing on themes of equality, citizenship, war and society, and American cultural encounters. Teachers can receive honoraria of $1,600 or $800 for participating in various program elements, including seminars, discussions, and producing required work. Graduate credits are also available for participation.
World Conflicts - 20th Century Military and Political Events. U.S. Military I...ProQuest
ProQuest® History Vault U.S. Military Intelligence Reports collection offers comprehensive documentation of developments and events in the key nations of the world during the period from World War I to the final campaigns of World War II. This presentation covers use cases for this exciting collection.
This document discusses what history is and why it is important to study. It defines history as a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events. Key reasons to study history include: to understand the roots of our current culture, learn from past mistakes, examine trends that repeat throughout history, learn historical facts, and understand how society has been shaped over time. The document outlines that historians investigate the past through a variety of primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were created during the time period being studied, while secondary sources interpret and analyze primary sources.
Studying history provides several benefits. It develops strong research, communication, analytical, and ICT skills that are valuable for many careers and everyday life. History helps understand how societies change over time and provides context for current world issues. Studying historical events, documents, and sources enhances critical thinking and helps explain modern life, traditions, and identities. The skills learned from a history education are seen positively by employers and it prepares students for active participation in society.
1. The document discusses key concepts for studying history, including themes, interactions between societies, change and continuity over time, technology and demography, social and gender structures, and culture.
2. It also provides an outline called "PIRATES" to analyze different aspects of civilizations, including their politics, intellectual developments, religion, arts, technology, economics, and social structures.
3. The document encourages brainstorming about factors that influence history and analyzing where civilizations are located on maps in relation to geographic features.
This document discusses definitions and perspectives on education. It provides two definitions of education as the process of learning and acquiring information through both formal schooling and informal life experiences. The document also shares two quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. that characterize education as enabling one to think critically and discern truth, and that true education develops both intelligence and strong moral character.
The document discusses different definitions and concepts of education from various perspectives. It explores the etymological meaning of education, words used in other languages, synonyms, visual images, Indian concepts from ancient texts and thinkers, western concepts from philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, thinkers like Dewey, definitions from commissions and theorists, and the narrow vs broad meaning of education over time. It also examines the modern concept and process of education.
This document provides resources for researching the history of women in the United States from 1870 to the present. It discusses primary sources such as diaries, correspondence, and autobiographies of women available in the General Collections. It also mentions secondary sources such as books and articles analyzing historical events. The document provides several links to library databases and archives containing these sources for researching women's history topics.
21st Century Skills in Social Studies ClassroomsTutti Jackson
This document discusses ways to incorporate primary sources into social studies classrooms to promote 21st century skills. It provides examples of primary and secondary sources and activities teachers can use. One activity involves students analyzing primary sources about a topic like immigration to Ohio to create an exhibit telling that story. The goal is for students to develop historical thinking skills like analysis and using evidence to support an argument. Incorporating primary sources and digital history tools engages students and mirrors how historians work.
Enslavement SystemDr. G. J. Giddings.docxelbanglis
This document summarizes key aspects of enslavement systems and the concept of whiteness. It discusses how enslavement was forced and resisted, was codified through legal systems, and was contradictory as some enslaved people gained freedom or positions of power over other enslaved people. It also examines how the concept of whiteness developed in the United States, starting as a distinction between white and black, then becoming a "variegated" concept where some European immigrant groups were considered whiter than others, and finally becoming an overarching "Caucasian" race. The document analyzes how these systems and concepts shaped American history and society.
The document provides an overview of Jim Crow laws and segregation in the United States through definitions, subject headings, and lists of resources for further information. It defines Jim Crow as referring to the legal and extralegal racial discrimination and segregation against African Americans. It also defines segregation as the policy of imposing isolation or separation of racial groups, especially in schools, housing, and industry. The document then lists subject headings and Dewey Decimal classifications useful for finding information on topics related to Jim Crow and civil rights. It concludes by providing examples of reference books, fiction and non-fiction books, documentaries, films, websites, and museums that contain additional resources on Jim Crow and segregation.
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A primary source gives first-hand evidence of an object, event, person or work of art. The primary sources include documents that are legal, eyewitness accounts, results experiments, pieces of creative writing interviews and newsgroups. One of the historical events in the history of America is the black civil rights movements. Many primary sources give the evidence of the black civil right movements in the United States of America. They are as follow;
The KZSU Project South Interviews
This collection H transcripts and audio recordings of meetings and interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South. They were recorded by several students from Stanford who are affiliated with the campus radio station KZSU. It was during the summer of 1965 when the project was sponsored by the Institute of American History at Stanford. The collection has a lot of information that are related black history. They include; interviews of members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. We also have the transcripts of formal and informal remarks of persons working with smaller blacks associated with the civil rights movement and transcribed action tapes of civil rights workers canvassing voters, conducting freedom schools.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Digital Collection
These collections have the records of the history of 1964's "Freedom Summer," when volunteers came together to be trained to register black voters in Mississippi. Three volunteers were subsequently killed, bringing about attention to racial issues and serving as a catalyst for change. The collection includes several documents, including reports from the FBI and articles from Ohio about the black civil rights movement at the time.
Negro Traveler's Green Book, 1937-1964
This was a travel guide series published from 1936 to 1964 by Victor H. Green. The author intended to provide African American motorists and the tourists with the information necessary to board, dine, and sightsee comfortably and safely given it were an era of segregation. The New York Public Library presents digital editions of the 1937-1964 green books.
The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
This primary source has the scholarly book from University of California Press. It contains images, video, and news clippings documenting how American Bandstand, the first national television program directed at teens, discriminated against young black individuals, and how black youths protested this discrimination.
"Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement"
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1. African AmericansThey are also known as the black Americans.docxjackiewalcutt
1. African Americans
They are also known as the black Americans or the Afro Americans. They are a group of citizens or residents living in the United States of America and they have partial or total ancestry from any native population of the sub-Saharan Africa. Some are also descendants of African Slaves. They are the second largest ethnic and racial minority in the United States
2. Events
Event 1: 1877 to 1945
Event: National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP)
In 12th February 1909 the National Association for advancement of colored people was founded by sixty prominent black and white intellectuals, reformers and socialists like James Weldon, Ella Baker, Moor field Storey, Walter white, Roy Wilkins, Benjamin among others they were led by W.E.B Du Bois in New York. The organization was founded when the United States was facing a national crisis of racism to secure the civil and political rights of African Americans and fight for justice for all Americans.103 years later since its inception it’s the oldest, largest and most influential civil rights organization (Tishkoff, Reed, Friedlaender, Ehret, Ranciaro, Froment & Williams, 2009).
Event 2:1877 to 1945
Event: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
In August1914 Marcus Garvey established the universal Negro Improvement association an influential nationalist organization in Jamaica where it operated until he moved to England in 1935 ( Sitkoff, 2009). The organization was founded to promote the spirit of race and pride and also create the sense of peace in black people and to unite all Africa and its Diasporas and redeem it from white rule. The UNIA closed in 1982 but it is recognized as a historic landmark by the National Register of Historic Places and the Ohio Historic Preservation Office (Marable, 1991).
Event 3: 1945 to present
Event: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Between January and February 1957 a civil rights group named the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by Martin Luther king, Charles k Steele and Fred L Shuttle worth in New Orleans to fight all forms of segregation (Harding, 1981).
Event 4: 1945 to present
Event: The first African American President and Attorney General
In 2008 senator Barack Obama from Chicago became the first African American President nominee as a major party nominee for president. On November 4th 2009 he became the first African American president to be elected president and the 44th president of the United States of America. On February 2nd Erick H Holder became the first African American to serve as Attorney General.
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Washington, J. M. (1986). The essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.
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Rape without Women: Print Culture and the Politicization of Rape, 1765-1815
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Rape without Women:
Print Culture and the Politicization
of Rape, 1765-1815
Sharon Block
In 1815 a legal manual added a commentary to its recital of the proper treatment of
rape. The author noted that "the material facts requisite to be given" in a trial for rape
"are highly improper to be publicly discussed, except only in a court of justice." This
sentence unintentionally pointed to a central paradox of rape: while the classification
of a given sexual interaction as a criminal and morally reprehensible act of rape
depended on specific details, those details were not fit for public exposition. Yet
Americans regularly published remarks on rape in virtually every form of print: news-
papers and almanacs, broadsides and pamphlets, novels and plays. We are accus-
tomed to historians' viewing rape within its legal setting, but there was a print world
of rape outside court proceedings and their accompanying publications. That print
world transformed rape from an intimate sexual act into a public symbol that could
define national and social boundaries.1
Sharon Block is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Irvine.
I owe thanks to Jim Egan, Alice Fahs, Kirsten Fischer, Karen Merrill, Martha Umphrey, and Michael Wilson
for their comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Versions of this paper were presented at the Newberry Library
Seminar in Early American History and the University of Kansas Seminar in Early Modern History. I am espe-
cially grateful to the anonymous reviewers for the JAH and to Nina Dayton for their thoughtful readers' reports.
Readers may contact Block at <[email protected]>.
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country including:
the National Archives
Library of Congress
Harvard Law School Library
Duke University
Virginia Historical Society, and
Presidential Libraries
And many more….
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4. A bit about History Vault
Archival records are normally unpublished and
almost always unique, unlike books or magazines,
in which many identical copies exist.
Typically, the arrangement of these materials
reflects the provenance of the collection and may be
arranged by source or type of document.
This organization is crucial in understanding the
context of each document relative to others within
the collection.
5. Document Organization
The original archival arrangement is
preserved so archivist’s decisions in
arranging the collections is respected
When all docs in a collection are
retrieved, they are ordered in the
original arrangement in the results.
If results are sorted by accession no.,
folders are arranged the way they were
originally in the archive.
45. Other themes
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The World War II homefront
Vietnam War
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NAACP Papers, The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Legal Department
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Editor's Notes
Collections you would have to visit to access the content.From these collections, we have created the content for the modules in History VaultUpper right: Chicago history museumCenter right: Carter pres libraryLower right: Smith college Top center: Arch II in College Park MDCenter: LCLower Center: Harvard Law Upper Left AP HQLower Left: Bush library
A little background on how we have handled the collections
We always preserve the original archival arrangement. We don’t move documents or folders around. We respect the archivist’s decisions in arranging the collections. When you retrieve all docs in a collection, they are ordered in the original arrangement in your results. If you sort by accession number, it also arranges the folders the way they were originally in the archive.
Today, I am going to talk about the women’s studies and how you can see wonderful examples of women throughout history using History Vault. Before we view the content through, we’ll have a quick look at the interface. Right now, you’re looking at the homepage. Along the top you can see the lines to the Advanced Search page, and links to Browse Events, Browse Collections, our product libguide, the “about” statement, and the help.
When a user starts typing, the type-ahead feature is there to help users with typos, and to drive them toward content in the product.
Browse events shows only events in modules you may have purchased.
Browse collections – for each collection within a module there is a URL and a description of the collection. From this page users can search within the collection using the search box or retrieve all documents in the collection.
Narrow results by… (the filters on the left) includes subject, geography, person as subject, federal agency, organizations, collections, and principal correspondent.Users can also use the full text search box to narrow results.
This is our History Vault Guide. There are pages about how to search, our webinars, an the modules that have been released and the modules yet to come.
So today we will be looking at History Vault using the very broad theme of Women through Time to highlight content in various modules.
Right now we have 6.5 million pages online – that is 9 modules consisting of 343 collections. By the end of 2013 we will have 9.3 million pages online – we will be up to 15 modules consisting of 442 collections. So that you don’t have to do the math in your head J that is 2.8 million pages, 6 modules, and 99 collections going up this year. So there is a LOT of content there on all kinds of topics.Given the size of the collections, there are many themes we could use to look at History Vault – labor relations, employment, Civil Rights, and more – but we had to choose just one!
This first module consists of collections from the records of federal government agencies. Here are just a few that are included: • Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945• Department of Justice Classified Subject Files on Civil Rights, 1914-1949 • New Deal Agencies and Black America • Records of the Tuskegee Airmen,• President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights• Records from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations• FBI Files on Martin Luther King Jr. • Civil Rights during the Bush Administration is on pg 63 in file.
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This is one of my favorite documents in the Bethune collection – an oral history including some of her formative years.
This is one of my favorite documents in the Bethune collection – an oral history including some of her formative years.
This is one of my favorite documents in the Bethune collection – an oral history including some of her formative years.
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And here are 3 more petition analysis records showing some of the amazing detail in the petition records. There more than 700 divorce petitions in the Slavery and the Law module allowing opportunities for both statistical studies as well as more descriptive studies. The first one on the upper left is a man seeking a divorce from his wife because he accused her of having children with men other than him.On the upper right, Elizabeth Wilhoyte sought a divorce because she said her husband was visiting houses of “public prostitution and ill fame.” In addition to the divorce, she also asked for custody of the children.And in the petition at the bottom, Mary Holcombe sought a divorce because she said her husband was a common drunkard, and vicious and dangerous. She sought a divorce, alimony, and custody of her child.
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Image: 1928 letter from Rachel O’Connor In collection #002422 (Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I: Selections from Louisiana State University, Part 6: David Weeks and Family Collection)The Weeks papers contain the personal correspondence of several extraordinary women who, after being widowed, managed their own plantations. They include Rachel O'Connor, Mary Weeks Moore, and Harriet Weeks Meade. Rachel O'Connor, David Weeks' half-sister, wrote dozens of letters to family members between 1823 and her death in 1846. Twice-widowed, Rachel's letters describe routine matters of her life as mistress of Evergreen Plantation on Bayou Sarah near St. Francisville, Louisiana, such as the condition of her crops and her garden and the ordering of provisions, as well as her aches and pains and the all-too-frequent illnesses and deaths of her family members and slaves
Also in this collection are some diaries.Susanna Warfield's diaries, which span the years 1845-1885, contain descriptions of her daily activities and observations, religious activities, finances, family life, and health. Martha Foreman’s diaries cover similar ground and more. Foreman, the mistress of "Rose Hill" Plantation in Cecil County, Maryland, recorded the wide variety of domestic and agricultural activities on her plantation, including the production of textiles, butchering of animals, fruit harvests, food preservation, and seasonal cleaning. Martha, the wife of Major General Thomas Marsh Forman, led an active social life and traveled frequently. Her diary also sheds some light on her emotional life, with many entries expressing longing for her husband (who was frequently away), and concern for his health. Image: Susanna Warfield Daily Diary, Martha Forman DiaryIn collection #002386 (Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series D: Selections from the Maryland Historical Society)
This is Sidney Harding's diary.She was the daughter of a plantation owner, and her family was forced to flee their home in the wake of troop movements into the area. They lived as refugees in a log cabin in Keachie, Louisiana. She writes frequently of the differences between her current situation and life in her family’s plantation mansion. However impoverished they became, the Harding family maintained an active social life.Entries on dancing, singing, supper parties, and other social events occur frequently in the diary. Also included are poignant descriptions of soldiers and of the battlefield after the Battle of Pleasant Hill on April 9, 1864.Sidney Harding's life as a Civil War refugee in Keatchie, Louisiana with a description of the battlefield after the Battle of Pleasant HillIn collection #002422 (Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I: Selections from Louisiana State University, Part 1: Louisiana Sugar Plantations)Also unique to this collection is the diary of Miss Sidney Harding.
And now on to the women’s rights module that went live in December. This module consists of three collections: National Woman’s Party, League of Women Voters, Women’s Action Alliance.The importance of the National Woman’s Party as a women’s rights group fighting for the suffrage amendment and then supporting the ERA cannot be understated in terms of the total perspective of 20th Century American Women’s History. Compared with other women’s organizations, the NWP’s sole devotion to equal rights was unique, unheralded, and according to some historians, advanced for its time.The National Woman’s Party grew out of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In April 1913, members of the Congressional Committee formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage as an affiliated society of NAWSA and in 1914 the Congressional Union became an independent organization. The most unique feature of the Congressional Union was its activist approach. It lobbied Congress and the president, held public parades and meetings, sent speakers throughout the country, and formed state branches. In 1916 the National Woman’s Party was formed by the enfranchised members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. The two organizations coexisted for one year until 1917 when they merged to become the National Woman’s Party. A large portion of the National woman’s party collection consists of correspondence pertaining to the suffrage fight that culminated in the passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the right to vote, and then the ultimately unsuccessful campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment.
Here are two more examples of some the letters on the suffrage campaign, including a lieeter to Alice Paul, the key leader of the National Woman’s Party. Paul was a key proponent of the activist approach, and she was the original author of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923.
The National Woman’s Party Papers includes a small series of photographs. The photographs include portraits and photographs of actions by the National Woman’s Party and affiliated organizations. Most History Vault collections do not include that many if any photographs, so these photographs add a nice dimension to the National woman’s Party collection
Another interesting part of the National Woman’s Party Papers is a series of about 200 cartoons pertaining to the suffrage campaign.
And here are two more cartoons – the item on the left is a revised version of the famous painting by Archibald MacNeal Willard called the Spirit of 76. the original name for the painting was Yankee Doodle but here instead of being in the revolutionary war, they are marching for the suffrage amendment. And the cartoon on the right, the caption says “training the animals” and elephant and a donkey, the mascots or symbols of the Republican Party and Democratic Party
The second organization covered in this module is the League of Women VotersThe League of Women Voters occupies a unique place in American political and women's history. Its brand of intensive study, training for citizenship, and sophisticated political action shows one direction that women took in public life after they won the vote in 1920.The League consistently took strong stands on the major governmental questions of the day and lobbied aggressively for causes it believed in.No less than sixty-nine items were singled out for action at the first convention in 1920.The collection features the minutes of the Board of Directors offer outlines of the deliberations about policy, as well as reports and other supporting material about how their plans were implemented. The Board of Directors papers also contain valuable material on the structure and finances of the organization. The broad sweep of these records offers an opportunity to examine the national leadership over a six-decade period. The League collection also includes transcripts of the national conventions and subject files on topics like fundraising, membership, and interaction with other women’s organizations such as the National Consumers League, the American Association of University Women, the National Women's Trade Union League, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Young Women's Christian Association, and the National Council of Jewish Women.
The third set of papers in this module are the records of the Women’s Action AllianceThe Women's Action Alliance (WAA) was founded in 1971 to coordinate resources for organizations and individuals involved in the women's movement on the grass-roots level. Founders included Gloria Steinem, Brenda Feigen, and Catherine Samuels. The organization's original mission was “to stimulate and assist women at the local level to organize around specific action projects aimed at eliminating concrete manifestations of economic and social discrimination.” In the early years, several well-known figures—including Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Maya Miller—were appointed to the Alliance's board of directors.The records of the Women’s Action Alliance included in History Vault cover the general operations of the WAA as well as the many programs pursued by the WAA. These programs focused on education, employment, and health. On this slide, you see some images from the WAA’s employment projects, including a flyer from its non-traditional occupations for women program on the left and documents pertaining to its publication called Struggling through Tight Times.
The Women’s Action Alliance ran several different educational initiatives. One of these was its Non-sexist child development project which the WAA launched in 1972. This project was one of the WAA’s longest run initiatives. Its stated goal was to “counteract the destructiveness of sex-role stereotyping”The records pertaining to this project include correspondence, financial records, and some project materials.Another important WAA education project was its Beginning Equal Project. The principal objective of this project was similar to the Non-Sexist Child development project but it targeted younger children. Its objective was to "to foster nonsexist childrearing and educational environments for children ages 0 to three.“ The WAA published a manual for this project and the cover for a draft of the manual is shown on the right side of this slide., Portable Women’s History Museum Project, Institute on Women’s History, Project REED [Resource on Educational Equity for the Disabled] and Project TREE – Training Resources for Educational Equity
A third key area for the Women’s Action Alliance involved projects relating to women’s health.These projects were the Resource Mothers Project, the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Project, and the Women’s Alcohol and Drug Education Project,
I talked about other themes that one could research using History Vault – here is a short list. Using the “Browse events” page in the product, you get many many more examples. Each module is rich with content for the researcher. Employment discrimination – documents pertaining to NAACP, African Americans and women, and court cases in Harvard Law materials, and presidential documents pertaining to employment discrimination· Civil rights legislation – pertaining to African Americans and women· Brown v. Board of Education – the NAACP, Black Freedom, and Harvard Law modules contain documentation offering different perspectives on the Brown case. · The World War II homefront – World War II marked an important moment in the Black Freedom struggle and protest activity during World War is documented in the NAACP Papers and the two black Freedom modules. The National Women’s Party collection and League of Women Voters collections also document how these two organizations worked and responded to conditions during the war.· Vietnam War – search to see how the NAACP and other civil rights and women’s rights organizations reacted to the Vietnam WarAnd now I’m going to had the microphone over to Rachel Hallywho will talk about the offerings coming in 2013.