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Mattress rolls carried on bicycle rickshaw in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown

Two large rolls of quilted mattress pads are transported through a market street on a bicycle rickshaw, or cyclo, in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown. Pedestrians, motorcycles, and minibuses maneuver around the huge load. Simple transportation powered by human...

Format: image/photograph

Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education

"Specializes in developing programs for youth to address health concerns like childhood obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, tooth decay, drug and alcohol abuse, unintentional injuries, and teen pregnancy."

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Latrelle McAllister oral history excerpt

Latrelle McAllister is an African-American woman who attended West Charlotte High School from 1973 until 1976, during the first years of integration. She speaks about her experiences of both segregated and integrated schools during her interview, and compares...

Format: audio/interview

Sita undergoes fire ordeal (Thai Ramayana mural)

Sita undergoes a fire ordeal, as seen on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. In this depiction, Sita appears to float and dance unharmed above a large outdoor bonfire. Figures of human and monkey kings, including Hanuman, stand on both sides of...

Format: image/photograph

Latrelle MacAllister on desegregation

Latrelle MacAllister is an African-American woman who attended West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1973 until 1976, during the first years of integration. She speaks about her experiences of both segregated and integrated schools during...

Format: audio/interview

About the Archaeology Primer

In Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer, page 1

The Occaneechi Indians were once prominent in the Virginia and Carolina Piedmont. As their numbers were reduced by clashes with European colonists, they retreated to a village on the Eno River. Their numbers further dwindled due to disease and warfare, and by 1730 the Occaneechi were all but gone. In 1983, archaeologists discovered a village site near Hillsborough, North Carolina. Through a series of digs, they confirmed that they had found Occaneechi Town.

Format: article

Managing paperwork: top priorities for organization

Suggestions for keeping track of your teaching materials, your students, and their work.

By Mitch Katz.

What a revival is

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.4

Explanation by Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), Christian revivalist preacher, of what a revival is and why it is necessary. Primary source includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Critical literacy

Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. This article outlines the history and theory of critical literacy and details its application in the classroom.

Format: article

By Heather Coffey.

Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum

In Oral history in the classroom, page 3

Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.

By Kathryn Walbert.

Reaching Latinos through social studies

In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.1

Teachers can help immigrant students feel more comfortable in the classroom by basing social studies lessons on students' own knowledge and backgrounds.

By Paul Fitchett.

Children's literature promotes understanding

Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.

Format: article

By Melissa Thibault.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address, 1933

Audio recording of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address, delivered 4 March 1933.

Format: audio/speech

Selected excerpts from Frederick Douglass slave narrative

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818. He escaped from slavery at age 20 and became an active figure in the abolitionist movement, eventually becoming one of the most important black American figures of the 19th century. In these excerpts from his first autobiography, he describes his experiences as a slave.

Format: book/primary source

The present state of Carolina [people, climate]

In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.1

Excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina describing (and mostly praising) the European and native inhabitants, weather, and natural resources of Carolina, as well as what settlers should bring with them from Europe. Includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

Among the Tuscarora: The strange and mysterious death of John Lawson, gentleman, explorer, and writer

They've taken his clothes, picked the straight razor out of his pocket: one brave fingers it, touches the blade — bright blood springs from his thumb and he laughs. The pitch pine split by the women is ready, a clay pot full...

Format: article

By Marjorie Hudson.

Olaudah Equiano remembers West Africa

In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.4

Excerpt from a book written by a freed slave in the late eighteenth century, with memories of his boyhood in Guinea. Describes the government, culture, religion, architecture, and agriculture of the region. Primary source includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.

The Confessions of Nat Turner

The book by Thomas R. Gray, allegedly containing the prison "confession" of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led an 1831 insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.

Format: book

Resources on the web

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

The companion Web site to the PBS program of the same name, looks at the struggles of nine innocent black men who had been accused of raping white women on board a train. It is "a cautionary tale about using human beings as fodder for political causes." (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: PBS and WGBH