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The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. What led up to the Trail of Tears? In this lesson, students learn about the decision to remove the Cherokee and Seminole people from their lands.

Unsung Heroes: Encouraging Students to Appreciate Those Who Fought for Social Justice

Teaching Activity. Essay by Howard Zinn and lesson by Bill Bigelow. 17 pages. Rethinking Schools. Students research and share stories about unsung heroes in U.S. history.

Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War

Teaching Guide. Edited by Adam Sanchez. 181 pages. 2019. Rethinking Schools. Students will discover the real abolition story, one about some of the most significant grassroots social movements in U.S. history.

Black Abolitionists

Profiles. Zinn Education Project. 2014. Brief biographies of 25 Black abolitionists.

Francis Scott Key Opposed “Land of the Free”

Article. By Jefferson Morley. "Star-Spangled Banner" songwriter Francis Scott Key opposed abolitionists and free speech in his role as district attorney of the city of Washington.

People’s History of Fourth of July

A collection of people's history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass's speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.

Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

Book - Non-fiction. By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank. 2005. 304 pages. Challenges the misconception that only the South was involved in or profited from slavery.

Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Book - Non-fiction. By Virginia Hamilton. 2002. An illustrated account of slavery for children based on historical records, personal narratives, and biographies for ages 8 - 12. Includes profiles of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass.

Tarantino Bloodies the Truth: A History Teacher’s Lament

Article. By Larry Miller. January 2013. A review of the film Django Unchained.

Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution

Book - Non-fiction. By Alfred Blumrosen and Ruth Blumrosen. 2006. A detailed account of the role slavery played in the Revolutionary War and the writing of the U.S. Constitution.

Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from Slavery

Book - Non-fiction. By Winifred Conkling. 2015. Young adult biography about Emily Edmonson who was one of 77 who attempted to escape slavery in Washington, D.C.

Slavery by Another Name

Film. By Sam Pollard, Catherine Allan, Douglas Blackmon and Sheila Curran Bernard. 2012. 90 min. Reveals the interlocking forces in the South and the North that enabled “neoslavery” post-Emancipation Proclamation.

Remembering Slavery

Book - Non-fiction and CD. Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller. Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 2007. Oral histories of first-person accounts of slavery.

Slavery and Defiance

Teaching Guide. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 9 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on black and white resistance to slavery before the Civil War.

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Digital Collection. This website publishes thousands of “Information Wanted” advertisements taken out by people freed from slavery who are searching for family members who had been sold apart.

The Women Who Gave Us Christmas

Article. By William Loren Katz. 2010. The abolitionist influence on the history of Christmas celebrations in the United States.

Why Do People Believe Myths About the Confederacy? Because Our Textbooks and Monuments Are Wrong

Article. By James W. Loewen. July 2015 in the Washington Post. A critique of textbook and mainstream media coverage of the Civil War.

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Book — Non-fiction. By Clint Smith. 2021. 336 pages. An examination of how monuments and landmarks represent — and misrepresent — the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today.

Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Yuval Taylor. 2005. Ten individuals tell stories of their childhood and teenage years in slavery.

Biddy Mason Speaks Up

Book — Non-fiction. By Arisa White and Laura Atkins. 2019. 112 pages. An illustrated children's book tells the story of real-life champion for civil rights Bridget "Biddy" Mason.

Whitewashing Our First President

Article. By Clarence Lusane. 2014. Critical review of an upper elementary non-fiction book about George Washington and the people he kept in bondage.

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery

Website. A companion site to the PBS documentary on the origins and legacy of American slavery, including episodes on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery and the Texas War of Independence

Book – Fiction. By James W. Russell. 2012. 210 pages. Historical fiction about the years leading up to the Texas War of Independence, based on the story of James Robinson, an enslaved man who fights for his freedom.

New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth

Teaching Guide. By Alan J. Singer. 2008. Narrative description of slavery in the north and strategies for engaging young people as historians on the topic.

Why I’m Rooting for Tommy Lee Jones

Article. By William Katz. 2013. An opportunity to highlight Congressman Thaddeus Stevens' fight for equality.