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20th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective

Pullman Company ID Card of Willie L. Wynne

Dr. Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago
July 25, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Activities, Grades 8 and Up

Distilling in Early Modern Europe

Sarah Peters Kernan, PhD
June 27, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Food, Health, and the Humors in Early Modern Europe

Two-page spread of an early printed book.

Sarah Peters Kernan, PhD
June 17, 2024

16th Century, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans, Visual Literacy

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, Grades 8 and Up, 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, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up, Visual Literacy

Mapping Early America: Peoples, Animals, and Environments

Dr. Danielle Alesi
May 28, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans

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, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans

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, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans

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