This interactive rates the news for bias and reliability using a rigorous methodology and a politically balanced team of analysts. Our focus is on analyzing the news content of articles and shows. Ad Fontes is Latin for “to the source,” because they rate the news by looking at the source itself.
Material Type: Interactive
America continues to fracture. Whitman, Alabama: a Portrait of America is a 52-part, Emmy-nominated work of documentary portraiture. The work spotlights contemporary Americans, their alienation from and forgotten connections to each other, and offers a tool for reconnection through the unique lens of past and present.These select episodes support the webinar of the same title featuring artist, journalist, and filmmaker Jennifer Chang Crandall.
Material Type: Reading
Open Author lets you combine text, pictures, sound, files and video. Saved as openly licensed educational resources, you can share them with friends, colleagues and educators from around the world.PURPOSEOpen Author provides a place where educators can build and share high-quality open educational resources (OER), such as courses, units, lessons, activities and presentations, to meet teaching and learning needs around the globe.OER FROM OPEN AUTHOROER can be created with Open Author, a teaching and learning network that provides organized access to high quality resources, information and tools. Open Author resources may be exported in a variety of formats for use in a course management system (CMS) or for presentations, and they may be printed for easy reference.
Material Type: Lecture
These flyers can be distributed to ieducators and organizations interested in creating OER in the Humanities in Class Digital Library.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Narrated by NHC Vice President of Education Andy Mink, this short video provides a short tour of the HICDL. Learn more about the goals of the microsite, the benefits of membership, and the ways you can use this resource in your teaching and curriculum planning.
Material Type: Lecture
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-alice-paul
Material Type: Primary Source
https://guides.loc.gov/sojourner-truth
Material Type: Primary Source
In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson encourages students in grades 4 and 5 to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, presenting, and evaluating mock campaign speeches.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Explore the accomplishments of women in U.S. history with your class by creating a scrapbook that highlights the accomplishments of famous American women.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Following the Civil War, new laws and constitutional amendments expanded voting rights for African American men. Black political power expanded dramatically and African American men held public office and served in Congress. The passage of state laws in the 1870s reversed the political gains of African Americans in the south.
Material Type: Lecture
An article written by black suffragist Adella Hunt Logan and published in the NAACP's publication "The Crisis". It includes reasons why the vote was particularly important to black women. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.
Material Type: Primary Source, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
A sculpture created by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage for the 1939 World's Fair. This resource comes from Women & the American Story (wams.nyhistory.org), a free curriculum website from the New-York Historical Society that connects educators with classroom resources that illuminate diverse women's contributions to the American past.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Primary Source, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
These two sets of lessons explore the importance of two queens from the Roman world-- Boudicca and Amairenas through close Latin and English reading, comparing and contrasting, and critical thinking about gender roles in history and today. Created by Emma Vanderpool and Maritere Rivera Mix
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The following lessons explore different women in mythology from a feminist lens. Created by Tess Chernauskas and Caroline Sun
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
To celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the 19th Amendment, this webinar will provide a hands-on introduction to resources that amplify women’s voices throughout history. Each segment will feature a HICDL Content Provider, who will curate and share OER materials for use throughout the humanities curriculum.
Material Type: Lecture
Peros, Neptune, Cupid and Jack were four slaves that ran away from Dogue Run on August 9, 1761. This ad provides an account of their mannerisms, dialect, and clothing – details that often elude documentation.
Material Type: Primary Source
Lists Mount Vernon slaves, their relationships, occupations, and place of residence on the estate -- a list of the negroes hired from Mrs. French. Autograph document, entirely in hand of George Washington, oversize document, laminated, George Washington's complete watermark. | Date on original catalog card appears [1799][July]. | [Probably prepared for information of his executors at the time he was drawing his will in July, 1799]. | Papers of George Washington - Reel#5.
Material Type: Primary Source
Some time ago a mulatto girl, body servant to Mrs. Washington, ran away -- she was found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire -- asks Bassett that since he is going to Portsmouth, would he take steps to send her back -- a Frenchman enticed her away but has left her -- if she causes no further trouble, she won't be punished -- Washington doesn't wish him to do anything "unpleasant, or troublesome" to bring her back. Autograph letter signed, Letter Press Copy, docketed by George Washington, laminated. | Name on original manuscript appears as "G. Washington". | Not in Writings. | Papers of George Washington - Reel#3.
Material Type: Primary Source
Searchable database of all enslaved people at George Washington's Mount Vernon.
Material Type: Primary Source
