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Japanese Immigrants, Internment Camps, and American Loyalty

This source collection focuses on the interviews and stories of first and second-generation Japanese Americans internment during World War II.

Image of Don Francisco de la Arobe in a 1599 portrait of him and his sons.

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Slavery, Law, & Power

This website encourages its users to dissect and reflect on how institutional slavery has shaped the Americas (with specific emphasis on the US) by examining documents from the pre-colonization to post-American Revolution.

Image selected from the “Old Man’s Prayer”

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Women Writers Project

This website is great for exploring the literary value that women provided through the Early Modern Period.

Three girls sitting with gazes cast downward. Each wearing a different-colored sari. The girl on the left is wearing light green, the girl in the middle is in orange, and the girl on the right is in red.

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Amrita Sher-Gil: Young Girls, Group of Three Girls

Group of Three Girls (1935), and Young Girls (1932) were created by th

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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos

Otto Rene Castillo wrote the poem “Apolitical Intellectuals” in 1967 in response to the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960-1996.

Maria Tallchief dancing with Erik Bruhn, banner reads 7Dance Magazine, July 1961, 75 cents

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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961

This 1961 Dance Magazine cover depicts a photograph of ballet dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn.

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Teaching Central America

Teaching Central America provides educational materials for K-12 educators with the goal of centering Central American history and culture in primary and secondary classrooms.

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Girl Museum

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.

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Archives Portal Europe

This website presents records from dozens of countries, in over 20 languages, and from around 7000 diverse archival institutions total including the national archives of dozens of countries and other smaller institutions.

Drawing of a boy squirting another in the face with a water gun.

Teaching

Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature

Children's literature can reveal a great deal about the time and place in which it was written. These stories from Korea published in 1946 provide insights into ideas about childhood, play, gender, family and even national identity the newly independent and not yet divided nation.