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Page 1 – Introduction
4. If you have time, also watch Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States – Part 1: Bread and Roses.
Playlists –
Music –Oh Freedom! Music Playlist on Spotify
Videos – Oh Freedom! Video Playlist on YouTube
Week 1
Use this resource to find highly recommended children’s books.
Week 2
1491 – Episode 1 – Origins
Visit this site to find which Natives lived on the land where you now live.
Week 4
Sing 1492
Enslaved Indigenous People
Use this resource from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Week 5
Teaching Hard History (K-5)
The 1619 Project
Week 6
Short video introduction- Biography.com – Lewis and Clark – Discovering the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Kids Discover – Louisiana Purchase
Learning for Justice – Discovering Lewis & Clarke (Native American Perspectives on westward expansion)
Tribal Perspectives – Northwest
Attend a Pow-Wow. Find one here.
Week 7
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Listen to the Missing History Episode by Today, Explained Podcast
Week 8
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – Episode 2 (53 mins)
Week 9
If you didn’t already watch African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Episode 1, the section starting from
minute 41:00 focuses on the Black presence in the Revolutionary War.
Week 10
Watch Gullah Roots (PBS)
Read About That Song You’ve Heard, Kumbaya (NYTimes)
Week 11
WATCH: Haudenosaunee: Women and Governance (PBS)
Week 12
Compare two Trail of Tears paintings here. (Alternative links: Painting by Max D. Stanley and the other is a color version of the one in the book.)
Black Indian An American Story
Week 13
The Trail of Tears | Georgia Stories (PBS)
We Shall Remain (PBS)
Show the various Native removal routes on a map.
Week 14
TRAIL OF TEARS: CHEROKEE LEGACY, part 1
TRAIL OF TEARS: CHEROKEE LEGACY, Part 2
Week 15
How the Mexican-American War Affected Slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Week 16
Womenfolk.com
Week 17
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Read “We Legitimize the ‘So-Called’ Confederacy With Our Vocabulary, and That’s a Problem” (Smithsonian
Magazine)
Week 18
Resenting Prosperity and Equality
Week 19 and 20
Chinese Exclusion Act
Week 22
lyrics
DK has an interactive resource, with short explanations about the war.
Week 23
Princess Kaiulani
Week 24
Harlem in 1920s
Episode 4 (Making a Way out of No Way)
Week 25
Episode 4 (Making a Way out of No Way)
Week 26
The African-American Migration Story
Week 27
DK has an interactive resource, with short explanations about the war.
Week 30
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Rise! – Episode 5)
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Week 39
Take the Quiz: What are prisons for? from Prisons Today.
Defend the Sacred