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Two Thumbs Up: Movies and Documentaries to Use (and Avoid) When Teaching Civil Rights

Article from "Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement" edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries. A critical review of films on the Civil Rights Movement and institutionalized racism, with dozens of recommendations of films to watch and those to avoid.

Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American Slave Trade Database

Digital collection. Through this website, over 130,000 voyages made in the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade can be searched, filtered, and sorted by variables including the port of origin, the number of enslaved Africans on board, and the ship's name.

Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge

Book – Non-fiction. By Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve. 272 pages. 2019. This is the true story of Ona Judge who escaped from enslavement by George and Martha Washington.

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

Book – Non-fiction. By Manisha Sinha. 2017. 784 pages. A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.

Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana

Book — Non-fiction. By Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon. 2021. This Reconstruction history graphic novel tells the story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian who became the first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor in the United States.

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: Teaching a People’s History of Reconstruction

Background Reading for Teachers. By Bill Bigelow. 4 pages. A review of Freedom's Unfinished Revolution, a collection of primary documents for high school on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Timeline on the Civil War and Abolition

Student Handout. By Bill Bigelow. This timeline can be used as a resource for lessons on the Civil War, President Lincoln, the 54th Regiment, and the end of slavery.

Unbound: A Novel in Verse

Book. Fiction. By Ann E. Burg. 2016. 352 pages. Story of a family fleeing slavery written in verse for grades 4-8.

Flight from the Devil: Six Slave Narratives

Book - Non-fiction. Compiled and with an introduction by William Loren Katz. 1996. Six narratives by people who were enslaved that helped expose the horrors of slavery and advance the fight for abolition.

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Patterson. Introduction by P. Gabrielle Foreman. 2021. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights.

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Book -- Fiction. By Walter Mosley. 2006. A young boy learns to survive under slavery and struggles for his own liberation with help from a mysterious stranger, Tall John.

Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Book - Non-fiction. By Gretchen Woelfle. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. 2016. 238 pages. Profiles of African American, free and enslaved, during the American Revolution for upper elementary to middle school.

Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. 2014. 704 pages. Speeches, letters, poems, and songs for each chapter of A People's History of the United States.

A People’s History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and “Low Mechanicks”

Book - Non-fiction. By Clifford D. Conner. 2005. New look at history of science, highlights hunter-gatherers, farmers, sailors, miners, blacksmiths, and more.

A Young People’s History of the United States

Book - Non-fiction. By Howard Zinn with Rebecca Stefoff. 2009. 464 pages. A young adult version of the best-selling A People’s History of the United States.

Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy

Book - Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2016. Examines the cultural, economic, and political context and impact of the World Cup and the Olympics on Brazil.

Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved

Article. By Clarence Lusane. 2014. If We Knew Our History Series. Textbooks erase enslaved African Americans from the White House and the presidency and present a false portrait of our country’s history.

Chains

Book - Fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2010. 336 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of an enslaved teenager during the Revolutionary War.

A Wish After Midnight

Book – Fiction. By Zetta Elliott. 2010. When tough Genna gets transported back in time, she must face the perilous realities of Civil War-era Brooklyn, using all her wits to survive and hold on to her humanity in two different worlds.

Pink and Say

Picture book. By Patricia Polacco. 1994. The narrative of two young boys who meet and help each other during the Civil War. For upper elementary.

Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Book - Non-fiction. By Kate Masur. 2021. The movement for equal rights in the decades before the Civil War.

Five Myths About Reconstruction

Article. By James W. Loewen. 2015. Overview of five common fallacies that Americans still tell themselves about the Reconstruction era.

Hurricane Dancers

Book - Fiction. By Margarita Engle. 2011. 160 pages. Historical fiction in the form of poetry about the conquest and resistance.

Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

Teaching Guide. By James W. Loewen. 2010. A wealth of ideas on how to rethink the teaching of U.S. history.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Book - Non-fiction. By James W. Loewen. 2018. 480 pp. Provides a detailed critique of 12 leading high school history textbooks.