Leadership in American History

• This is a web-based project that showcases 52 historic sites associated with the African American history of New York City on a new interactive website.
• Funded by a grant from JP Morgan, this project is a collaboration of the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University, Creative Curriculum Initiatives, and Teachers College, Columbia University.
• At each of the 52 sites there is a short statement providing the historical background for the site. The website is a portal to glossaries of concepts and terms, profiles of historical events and figures, videotaped commentary by faculty experts, film and music clips, and historical photographs and artwork
• By February 2008, twelve sites will have lessons designed for middle and high school teachers along with one-page adaptations for elementary teachers.
• The lessons are organized into modules organized around the following themes:  The establishment of the African American community in NYC;  Resistance and self-determination in the face of slavery and discrimination;  African American contributions to building NYC
•  The sites include a range of places from the familiar (e.g., African Burial Ground, Draft Riots, Abyssinian Baptist Church, Five Points, and the Schomburg Library) to less familiar (African Grove Theater, Colored Orphan’s Asylum, Hughson’s Tavern, etc.)

·         Eventually, a printed curriculum will be produced to be distributed free of charge to one thousand teachers in New York State.

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