Culture
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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.
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Sympathy
Published in 1946 for an audience of affluent, book-buying families in Seoul, Grapes and Beads realistically describes the daily lives of children in the poorer countryside with affection and respect.
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A Mother's Power
Published in 1946 for an audience of affluent, book-buying families in Seoul, Grapes and Beads realistically describes the daily lives of children in the poorer countryside with affection and respect.
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Cat (Korean Children's Story)
Published in 1946 for an audience of affluent, book-buying families in Seoul, Grapes and Beads realistically describes the daily lives of children in the poorer countryside with affection and respect.
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Friendship
Published in 1946 for an audience of affluent, book-buying families in Seoul, Grapes and Beads realistically describes the daily lives of children in the poorer countryside with affection and respect.
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The Squirt Gun
Published in 1946 for an audience of affluent, book-buying families in Seoul, Grapes and Beads realistically describes the daily lives of children in the poorer countryside with affection and respect.
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The Acropolis Museum
The excavation and marbles videos might be useful for, in addition to teaching Greek history, helpful for educators wishing to discuss imperialism and globalism through material culture.![Image of a gold pre-hispanic container used to hold lime.](/sites/default/files/2023-10/Recipiente%20para%20cla%20fitomorfo%20-%20thumbnail.jpg)
Archeological Collection of the Gold Museums
The work of the Banco de la República combines collections related to music, plastic arts, documentary, numismatic, philatelic, archeological, and ethnographic elements.![Medieval painting](/sites/default/files/2023-09/MiddleAgesForEducators.jpg)
Middle Ages for Educators
...the site boasts more than 40 videos and video playlists, more than 125 different resource links, and worked with more than 50 subject matter experts on this project.![German soldiers from WWI standing in front of airplanes preparing to fly and air raid over Paris](/sites/default/files/2023-09/Screenshot%202023-09-19%20115006.png)