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Lessons in Looking: Imperialism Cartoons
This activity teaches students how to break down different elements of a political cartoon. Students examine how different symbols and images can be combined to convey meaning. Then students analyze a 1902 political cartoon about U.S. expansion [...]
Who Freed the Slaves: Weighing the Evidence worksheet
This worksheet helps students evaluate different pieces of evidence to determine who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln or slaves themselves. The worksheet is part of the activity "Emancipation and "Contraband": Who Freed the Slaves During the Civil [...]
Analysis Worksheet: Before-and-After Photographs of a Union Recruit
This worksheet helps students analyze Civil War photographs of a former slave who joined the Union military.
Analysis Worksheet: "Colored Troops Under General Wild, liberating slaves in North Carolina"
This worksheet helps students analyze an 1864 sketch of African-American troops, many of whom were former slaves, liberating slaves on a North Carolina plantation.
Analysis Worksheet: Harriet Tubman Warns "Kill the Snake Before It Kills You"
This worksheet helps students analyze a letter in which Lydia Maria Child describes Harriet Tubman's vivid allegory about the necessity of destroying slavery during the Civil War.
Analysis Worksheet: A Runaway Slave Predicts "Freedom Will Reign"
This worksheet helps students analyze a letter from John Boston, a runaway slave during the Civil War, to his wife.
Analysis Worksheet: Lincoln in Richmond
This worksheet helps students analyze the 1865 print Lincoln in Richmond.
Analysis Worksheet: A Union Army Captain Testifies Before the Freedman's Commission
This worksheet helps students analyze the 1863 testimony of Captain C.B. Wilder, who attested to the impact of contraband slaves during the early years of the Civil War.
Analysis Worksheets: On to Liberty
These worksheets help students analyze the Theodor Kaufmann painting On to Liberty. The graphic organizer included here can also be used to analyze the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson. The worksheets are included as part of Lessons in [...]
A Mill Girl Tells Her Story of Work
Lucy Larcom worked in the mills at Lowell as a young woman. Forty years later, she described her experiences in her book An Idyl of Work. She dedicated the book "to working women."