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16th Century, High School, Lesson Plans

Albrecht Dürer and Representations of Race in the Renaissance

Dr. Lia Markey, Newberry Library
June 13, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Resistance in the Colonial Caribbean (Advanced)

Title page for the Book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados: Illustrated with a Map of the Island, as also the Principal Trees and Plants there, set forth in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawn out by their several and respective Scales.

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
June 11, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans

Resistance in the Colonial Caribbean

Map of Barbados with place names and small illustrations, including pigs and cattle, men leading camels, and a white man on a horse chasing and firing a gun at two Black men.

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
June 11, 2024

17th Century, Activities, Middle School

Mapping Early America: Peoples, Animals, and Environments

Dr. Danielle Alesi
May 28, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Early European Travel in Illinois: Land, Animals, and the Environment

Engraved illustration of a bison standing in a wooded landscape with a stork or pelican and an opossum nearby.

Dr. Danielle Alesi
May 28, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Women of the Great Migration, Part II: Women Journalists

Eighteen well-dressed African American women posing for a picture. They sit and stand in three rows in an alleyway between a fence and a building.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Women of the Great Migration, Part I: Letters from the South

Colored glass slide showing 15 Black women working at sewing machines in a large hall. Completed dresses hang on the walls around them.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

The Chicago Defender as the North Star

Approximately 30 Black men in suits and ties sit at two long tables in a small, well-decorated room. Most have reading material in front of them. Two stand at a rack of newspapers on the side of the room.

Freda D. Brown, 2024 DAR Fellow
May 6, 2024

Classroom Materials, Elementary School, Middle School, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Ephemera

Anti-women's-suffrage postcard showing an angry white man nursing a baby while a white woman, implied to be his wife, is protesting for women's votes outside.

Hilary Mac Austin
March 4, 2024

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Anatomy of a Map

Map of the United States and Indian Territory. Insets on around the edges show major cities and pieces of infrastructure.

David Wiemer, PhD
September 29, 2023

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Elementary School, Middle School, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Decoding Lines in Maps

Map of Ohio with sections of surrounding states and Lake Eire, Ohio is broken into different colored counties. Roads, railroads, canals, and cities are marked.

David Weimer, PhD
September 21, 2023

19th Century, 20th Century, Activities, Elementary School

Population Growth in Chicago

Elevated view of a city neighborhood showing rows of tightly packed two-and-three story houses with a church and many industrial smoke stacks on the horizon.

Kathleen Thompson
May 2, 2023