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Grim, Linnea; Wickens, K. Allison; Jecha, Jackie; Powell, Linda; Hawkins, Callie; Flanagan, Candra – Journal of Museum Education, 2017
"Slavery is the ground zero of race relations," declared James and Lois Horton in their groundbreaking book, "Slavery and Public History." Engaging the history and legacy of slavery is a crucial step in understanding current U.S. society especially race relations. Historic sites that have connections to slavery have begun to…
Descriptors: Slavery, United States History, African American History, History Instruction
Reich, Gabriel A.; Buffington, Melanie; Muth, William R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
This article reports on the results of an exploratory qualitative study of the collective memories of Secession held by a diverse group of university students (n = 54) at a large southern research institution. Participants completed a survey that asked them to produce a narrative of Secession as well as to rank a selection of heroes and provide an…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Memory, College Students, Student Surveys
The Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Virginia: Advancing Geo-Literacy in an Interdisciplinary Context
Finn, John C.; Mazzocca, Ann E.; Goetz, Evan; Gibson, Lisa – Geography Teacher, 2015
In this special section of "The Geography Teacher" the authors report on two Virginia Geographic Alliance-sponsored workshops that they convened during the spring semester of 2014. The central objective of these workshops was to bring pre-service education students in Virginia together with social studies teachers from around the state…
Descriptors: Slavery, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cultural Literacy, Heritage Education
McCoy, Kate – Environmental Education Research, 2014
Globally, colonization has been and continues to be enacted in the take-over of Indigenous land and the subsequent conversion of agriculture from diverse food and useful crops to large-scale monoculture and cash crops. This article uses a land education analysis to map the rise of the ideology and practices of Manifest Destiny in Virginia.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Land Settlement, Epistemology, American Indians
Finn, John C.; Mazzocca, Ann E.; Goetz, Evan; Gibson, Lisa – Geography Teacher, 2015
This article provides a brief overview of the March 2014 workshop that the authors organized with approximately thirty pre-and in-service teachers from around the state of Virginia. The authors' broad focus in this workshop was the connection between race and the cultural landscape in Virginia. The goals were relatively simple: to get teachers and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Preservice Teachers, Inservice Education, Race
Mazzocca, Ann E.; Finn, John C.; Goetz, Evan; Gibson, Lisa – Geography Teacher, 2015
The first workshop in this series of institutes exploring the legacies of slavery in Virginia sponsored by the Virginia Geographic Alliance took place in Richmond, Virginia, and explored Africanist aesthetic legacies in contemporary culture and performance. In this workshop, the authors were specifically interested in pursuing the intersecting…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Music Activities, Dance, African American Culture
Bly, Antonio T. – History of Education Quarterly, 2011
The pursuit of literacy is a central theme in the history of African Americans in the United States. In the Western tradition, as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others have observed, people of African descent have been written out of "culture" because they have been identified with oral traditions. In that setting, literacy signifies both…
Descriptors: African Americans, Oral Tradition, War, Educational History
Galuszka, Peter – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
This article presents an interview with Dr. Edward Ayers, a recognized expert on Southern history and president of the University of Richmond. According to Dr. Ayers, 2011 marks the start of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the emancipation of African-Americans. It is an important distinction based on the evolution of Civil War…
Descriptors: United States History, War, Conflict, Interviews
Anderson, Carl B.; Metzger, Scott Alan – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2011
This study is a mixed-methods text analysis of African American representation within K-12 U.S. History content standards treating the revolutionary era, the early U.S. republic, the Civil War era, and Reconstruction. The states included in the analysis are Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia. The analysis finds that the reviewed…
Descriptors: United States History, Slavery, War, African Americans
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Few regions in the U.S. boast a more plentiful array of historically significant sites than the 175-mile-long route between Monticello, Virginia, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. From the most venerated of Civil War battlefields to nine historic homes of U.S. presidents and thousands of sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Historic Sites, War
Shanahan, Maureen G. – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
Malaika Favorite's "Furious Flower Poetry Quilt" (2004) is an acrylic painting that depicts 24 portraits of leading poets of the African Diaspora. Commissioned by Dr Joanne Gabbin, English professor and director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the painting is part of a larger programme of poetry…
Descriptors: United States History, Poets, African American History, Slavery
Budros, Art – Social Forces, 2005
Although traditional explanations of the historic slave manumission movement during the early Republic have stressed religion, rival ones have emphasized broader environmental forces. However, the literature has offered non-systematic conceptualizations of religion and impressionistic empirical analyses of the facilitators of liberations. In…
Descriptors: Slavery, Freedom, Religion, Social Environment
Briley, Ron – History Teacher, 2006
This document is a study guide for Stephen B. Oates biography of Nat Turner, "The Fires of Jubilee." The book is a practical reading vehicle for introducing Nat Turner to secondary students in grades 11 and 12. Oates divides his work into four parts, which could provide the basis for four reading assignments, although the sections are…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Reading Assignments, Biographies, Study Guides
Blackman, James A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Although Thomas Jefferson's view of freedom was the cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence, this founding father owned 170 slaves to run his 5,000 acre plantation. This article describes a unit developed by the Monticello (Virginia) Education Department that teaches secondary students about slave Isaac Jefferson while exposing them to…
Descriptors: Biographies, History Instruction, Presidents, Secondary Education
Angulo, A. J. – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
The author introduces William Barton Rogers, conceptual founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who pursued two interrelated careers in nineteenth-century America: one centered on his activities in science and the other on his higher educational reform efforts. This essay explores one theme in Rogers' scientific and educational…
Descriptors: United States History, Slavery, Careers, Higher Education
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