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Migration/Diaspora

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Short Teaching Module: Modern Racism in the U.S. and South Africa

This module has students examine the roots of “modern” racism and make connections between the status of Black individuals in the United States and in South Africa. This approach is designed to foster a discussion on American “exceptionalism,” in particular that U.S.

Stone tablet from Gilgamesh's Epic.  The specific tablet is number 11 discussing the Flood Narrative.
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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

This site was designed to provide classroom teachers with an extensive, well-organized collection of ancient Mediterranean literary texts and, to a lesser extent, art and archaeological sources.
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National Security Archive: Sources on Latin America

The documents on the website provide students the opportunity to construct their own historical interpretations.
Image of one of the handwritten letters from the collection
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Liberian Letters

Liberian Letters will fascinate teachers and students interested in the late history of slavery, manumission, and repatriation of people of African descent to Sub-Saharan coasts.
The ruins of Great Zimbabwe's elliptical building
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Internet African History Sourcebook

The site provides broad chronological and geographic coverage, with a particularly impressive list of sources for ancient Egypt and Greek and Roman Africa. It is a gateway to an abundance of information.
A line of women and children wait by a train
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Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

The museum Yad Vashem is one of the foremost research centers for holocaust studies in the world.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette: Free blacks and mulattos flee (4 December 1793)

Along with whites, free blacks and mulattos were also among those who fled the Haitian uprising. Mulattos could own slaves and plantations, and many of them did. Free blacks often manned the militias used to hunt down runaway slaves.

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The Pennsylvania Gazette: White Refugees (17 July 1793)

This newspaper article reports sympathetically on the situation of the white refugees fleeing Haiti because of uprising. The articles details how the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia met the influx of these refugees.

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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Students might examine how the inclusion of African American women's perspectives alters more standardized narratives of American history.
Thumbnail of a photo of women working in a factoryThere is also a great deal of material on the foundation of female education and on the women’s suffrage movement.
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Canadian Women's History

There is also a great deal of material on the foundation of female education and on the women’s suffrage movement.