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Robyn C. Spencer Assistant Professor of History Lehman College

The Quest for Equality: Transforming the History classroom with Primary Sources and Public history. Robyn C. Spencer Assistant Professor of History Lehman College. Project Overview: What to expect. Introductions What will we learn and how will we learn it?

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Robyn C. Spencer Assistant Professor of History Lehman College

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  1. The Quest for Equality: Transforming the History classroom with Primary Sources and Public history Robyn C. Spencer Assistant Professor of History Lehman College

  2. Project Overview: What to expect. Introductions What will we learn and how will we learn it? How will we translate the new knowledge/approaches learned into new teaching practices?

  3. Thinking Like a Historian

  4. The Quest for Equality • Reconstruction • Emancipation v. Freedom • Emergence of Jim Crow • Civil Rights • African Americans • Women • Immigrants • Early Settlement of America • Voluntary/involuntary immigration • Legislation

  5. Engaging Students • Centering students in the classroom as active learners • Improving content knowledge • Teaching historical habits of mind • Enhancing critical thinking • Fueling Interest and Passion in the Past

  6. Content overview: The Present Past Where will we start our historical exploration? What is the backhistory? How do the themes of this project relate to each other?

  7. The Quest for Equality • What does equality mean in different historical time periods?

  8. African Slave Trade1440-1867

  9. How was labor organized in Early America 1612-1660?

  10. Labor, Race and Servitude in the Chesapeake 1612 –20 Africans Arrive in Jamestown 1620s-1660s—Indentured Servitude Race and the Origins of Black Slavery How? Why? When? 1640 John Punch case-lifetime servitude 1662 Slave status inherited

  11. Thomas Jefferson-- • 1776 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (Declaration of Independence) • 1820“ I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man on the farm…..what she produces in an addition to capital.”(Farm Book, 45-46)

  12. The Abolitionist Movement

  13. Major Legislation Passed During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 • 13th Amendment (1865) • Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau) Act 1865 • 14th Amendment 1868 • 15th Amendment 1870 • Civil Rights Act of 1875

  14. Backlash--Redemption

  15. Looking Ahead

  16. Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond

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