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

Drawing of three children one standing, two crouching
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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.

"eomeoniui him" or "a mother's power" written in Korean
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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.

goyang-i or "cat" written in Korean
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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.

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

German soldiers from WWI standing in front of airplanes preparing to fly and air raid over Paris
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National WWI Museum and Memorial

Due to the immense amount of resources, we advise educators to enter the databases with an idea of what they want rather than attempting to browse.
Map of Africa with colored points
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African Studies Center

The Center hosts or links to resources on just about every African topic an educator might want to focus on in the classroom.
A View of New Amsterdam in 1673 by Bert Twaalfhoven
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New Netherland Institute

Due to New Netherland’s intersection across several themes such as globalism, Indigenous contact, enslavement history, transatlantic trade, imperialism, religion, it may be a useful case study for educators wishing to teach students about 17th-century Europea
A large, earthen mound covered in grass set against a blue sky. The mound has stairs with people using them.
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Poverty Point in Louisiana, United States

Poverty Point is a prehistoric earthenwork site featuring mounds, ridges, and a ceremonial plaza located in northeastern Louisiana, United States.

A stone monument with two stones acting as posts and a third stone sitting vertically atop the others. The monument sits on grass and there are trees seen in the background.
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Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga

Ha’amonga ‘a Maui is a stone trilithon located on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga. A stone trilithon is a stone monument with two large vertical stones acting as a post for the third stone set horizontally across the top.