Web Resources

The 1619 Project Curriculum - includes reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom.

Slave Communities & Resistance (American Social History Project) - The documents and teaching activities in this collection include a rich variety of evidence—from poems to paintings to advertisements for runaway slaves—which helps students to develop their own understandings of how slaves coped with hardship, managed to undermine the system of slavery in subtle ways, and seized back some of the humanity stolen from them.

Teaching Hard History (Teaching Tolerance) - Teaching Hard History resources for middle- and high-school educators include the 6–12 framework, as well as student-facing videos and primary source texts. The Key Concepts pinpoint 10 important ideas that all students must understand to truly grasp the historical significance of slavery.

African-American History Curriculum (New Jersey State Library) - a survey narrative of African-American History with accompanying lesson plans.

Created Equal Lessons - Four films are the centerpiece of the project Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle. The films, The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story, and Freedom Riders, connect the stories of the long civil rights movement and address issues of race and rights

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience - presents an interpretation of African-American history that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds

Africans in America (PBS) - America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, there is a historical narrative, a resource bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a teacher's guide.