Reading the World Workshop

African-Americans in the North 1609-1865

Massachusetts

Museum of African American History, Boston

• http://www.afroammuseum.org/

New Bedford Whaling Museum

• http://www.whalingmuseum.org/library/old_nb/old_nb_african.html

Museum of African-American History Boston

• http://www.afroammuseum.org/

Massachusetts Historical Society

• http://www.masshist.org/

Phillis Wheatley, Colonial Poet

• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/431

New Hampshire

Black History in New Hampshire

• http://www.seacoastnh.com/Black_History/Black_History_of_the_Seacoast/Black_History_of_the_Seacoast/

Connecticut

Fortune’s Story: Slavery in Connecticut

• http://www.fortunestory.org/fortune/fortune.asp        

Fortune’s Bones NPR Story

• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1433035

Maine

University of Southern Maine - Maine African-American History

• http://library.usm.maine.edu/specialcollections/aahistory.html

Maine Memory Network of Maine Historical Society: African American Search Results

• http://www.mainememory.net/bin/SwishSearch?Keywords=african+americans&submit=SEARCH

Vermont

Vermont Historical Society: Underground Railroad Project

• http://www.vermonthistory.org/index.php/education/online-resources/underground-railroad-project.html

Buxton, Canada

Buxton National Historic Site and Museum

• http://www.buxtonmuseum.com/index.html

Article on the Founding of Buxton

• http://www.jstor.org/pss/2713816

General

Library of Congress: The African-American Mosaic

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/introduction.html

Library of Congress: African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets, 1818-1907

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

Slavery in the North

• http://www.slavenorth.com/slavenorth.htm

National Humanities Center

• http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/africa.htm

National Geographic Underground Railroad Site

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• http://www.undergroundrailroad.com/

Slavery and the Making of America: PBS Online Resources

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey:  Slavery

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey: Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

National Park Service African American History

• http://www.nps.gov/history/aahistory/

National Institute of Health (NIH): African-Americans and Civil War Medicine Online Exhibit

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/index.html

African-Americans in the Mid-Atlantic 1609-1865

New York

The New York Historical Society: Slavery in New York

• http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/tour_galleries.htm

Slavery in New York’s Hudson Valley

• http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/70/134/

Digital Schomburg: Online Exhibitions of the Schomburg Center of The New York Public Library

• http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/online_exhibitions

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Historical Society: Free African Americans in Philadelphia 

• http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=750

African-Americans and Pennsylvania’s Railroad History

• http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/about/rrpeopleandsociety/africanamericans.shtml

Maryland

Maryland Historical Society: Online Image Collection of African-American History

• http://archive.mdhs.org/library/Z24AfrAm.html

General

Library of Congress: The African-American Mosaic

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/introduction.html

Library of Congress: African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets, 1818-1907

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

Slavery in the North

• http://www.slavenorth.com/slavenorth.htm

National Humanities Center

• http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/africa.htm

National Geographic Underground Railroad Site

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• http://www.undergroundrailroad.com/

Slavery and the Making of America: PBS Online Resources

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey:  Slavery

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey: Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

National Park Service African American History

• http://www.nps.gov/history/aahistory/

National Institute of Health (NIH): African-Americans and Civil War Medicine Online Exhibit

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/index.html

African-Americans in the South 1609-1865

Virginia

Colonial Williamsburg: African-American History

• http://www.history.org/almanack/people/african/index.cfm

Virginia Historical Society: African-American History

• http://www.vahistorical.org/tah/intro.htm

North Carolina

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC

• http://www.ganttcenter.org/web/

South Carolina

PBS: Gullah Culture / South Carolina

• http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/gullah.html

Louisiana

New Orleans African American Museum

• http://noaam.org/

Amistad Research Center of Tulane University

• http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/index.php/digital

Georgia

Georgia Historical Society

• http://www.georgiahistory.com/containers/19

General

Library of Congress: The African-American Mosaic

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/introduction.html

Library of Congress: African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets, 1818-1907

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/

Slavery and the Making of America: PBS Online Resources

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

National Humanities Center

• http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/africa.htm

National Geographic Underground Railroad Site

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• http://www.undergroundrailroad.com/

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey:  Slavery

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

Library of Congress, African-American Odyssey: Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

National Park Service African American History

• http://www.nps.gov/history/aahistory/

National Institute of Health (NIH): African-Americans and Civil War Medicine Online Exhibit

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/index.html

David Drake (aka Dave the Potter) Resources 

Dave the Potter Biography and Samples of Pottery

• http://www.usca.edu/aasc/davepotter.htm

Dave the Potter Exhibit Information

• http://www.folkpotterymuseum.com/pr/pr2.html

David Drake’s Pottery at Philadelphia Museum of Art with Great Audio Files

• http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/91457.html

The Classroom Bookshelf Blog Entry for Dave the Potter

• http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-ala-coretta-scott-king-illustrator.html

Children’s & Young Adult Literature

Picture Book Fiction

Edwards, P. D. (1997). Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad. Ill. by H. Cole. New York: HarperTrophy.

Evans, L. (2011) Underground. New York: Roaring Brook Press.

Hopkinson, D. (1993). Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt. Ill. by J. Ransome. New York: Dragonfly Books.

Hopkinson, D. (2005). Under the quilt of night. Ill. by J. Ransome. New York: Aladdin.

Levine, E. (2007). Henry’s freedom box. Ill. by K. Nelson. New York: Scholastic.

Morrow, B. O. (2003). A good night for freedom. Ill. by L. Jenkins. New York: Holiday House.

Nelson, V. M. (2003). Almost to freedom. Ill. by C. Bootman. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.

Rappaport, D. (2000). Freedom river. Ill. by B. Collier. New York: Hyperion.

Slate, J. (2009). I want to be free. Ill. by E. B. Lewis. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Winter, J. (1988). Follow the drinking gourd. New York: Knopf.

Chapter Book Fiction

Curtis, C. (2007). Elijah of Buxton.  New York: Scholastic.

Lester, J. (2005). Day of tears. New York: Jump at the Sun.

McGill, Alice. (2000).Miles’ song. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

McKissack, P. and McKissack, F. (1998). Let my people go: Bible stories told by a freeman of

color to his daughter, Charlotte, in Charlestown, South Carolina, 1806-1816. Illus. by J.

Ransome.  New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Siegelson, K. (1999). In the time of drums. Ill. by B. Pinkney. New York: Jump at the Sun.

Picture Book Nonfiction

Hill, L. (2010). Dave the potter. Ill. by B. Collier. New York: Little Brown & Company.

Lasky, K. (2006). A voice of her own: The story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet. Ill. by P. Lee.

                Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

Nelson, M. (2004). Fortune’s bones: The manumission requiem.  Asheville, NC:  Front Street.

Nelson, V. M. (2009). Bad news for outlaws:  The remarkable life of Bass Reeves, U.S. marshall.

                Ill. by R. G. Christie. Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books.

Chapter Book Nonfiction

Bolden, T. (2005). Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl. New York: Abrams.

Bolden, T. (2001). Tell all the children our story: Memories and mementos of being young and black in    America.  New York: Harry Abrams.

Cox, C. (2002). Come all you brave soldiers: blacks in the Revolutionary War. New York: Scholastic.

Fradin, D. B. (2000). Bound for the North Star: True stories of fugitive slaves. New York: Clarion Books.

Hansen, J. and McGowan, G. (1998). Breaking ground, breaking silence: The story of New York’s  African Burial Ground. New York:  Henry Holt and Company.

Haskins, J., Cox, C. & Wilkinson, B. (2002). Black stars of colonial times and the revolution African      Americans who lived their dreams. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass. 

McKissack, P. and McKissack, F. (1999). Black hands, white sails: The story of African-American  whalers. New York: Scholastic.

Myers, W. D. (1991). Now is your time: The African-American struggle for freedom. New York: Harper    Collins.

  

Rappaport, D. (2006). No more! Stories and songs of slave resistance. Illus. by S. Evans. Cambridge:    Candlewick Press.

Building a Multimodal, MultigenreText Set

Locating Books 

1.)    Book Reviews in journals like:

·         The Horn Book Magazine www.hbook.com

·         School Library Journal http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/ 

·         Book List http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm

2.)    Digital versions of these books reviews! If you or your school does not have a subscription to one of the above journals, then you can find the reviews online through Academic Search Premiere or Proquest databases. There’s a good chance your local library provides access. Look for the online databases on your local library webpage or ask a local librarian. Or, ask your school librarian if s/he uses Titlewave. You can get a free account at www.titlewave.com and search the catalogue by topic, author, genre, reading levels, and publication year.

3.)    Major Book Awards

·         Sibert Medal for Nonfiction (ALA) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm

·         Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction (NCTE) http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

·         Newbery Medal (ALA) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm

·         Caldecott Medal (ALA) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.cfm

·         The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (picture book, fiction/poetry, nonfiction) http://www.hbook.com/bghb/current.asp

·         Coretta Scott King Award (ALA)

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/cskbookawards/recipients.cfm

4.)    Important Book Lists

• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) – The CCBC webpage (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) provides links to all the major book awards and recommended list sites (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/links/links.asp?idLinksCategory=2) , as well as offering bibliographies on topics and themes (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/bibBio.asp ), a book-of-the-week feature (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailBook.asp?idBooks=5504&BOW=true)  and author-illustrator podcasts (http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/authors/default.asp) .

• Book Links magazine – This is an American Library Association publication which provides lists of books related to particular curriculum topics in many subject areas.  Its articles are available through Academic Search Premiere and Proquest Education databases, which may be available through your local library. http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/publishing/booklinks/index.cfm

• The Horn Book Guide – This bi-annual reviews and rates all books published the previous year and is indexed by subject  - http://www.hornbookguide.com/cgi-bin/hbonline.pl. This link will take you to the online version where you can sign up for a free trial. Check to see if your local library has print copies.  Your local library may also have these reviews available in online databases. Horn Book Magazine reviews are available in Proquest and Academic Search Premiere and Horn Book Guide reviews are available in Proquest. Also, be sure to sign up for the free monthly Horn Book newsletter.

• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People – an annual listing compiled by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council. Lists can be accessed on-line at http://www.ncss.org/resources/notable/

• Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 – an annual listing compiled by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council. Lists can be accessed on-line at http://www.nsta.org/ostbc

Locating Articles 

The following are recommended magazines for children and young adults. The publisher’s websites provide information about back issues, allowing you to purchase text sets on topics that you teach. Additionally, many of these articles are available as PDF documents through InfoTrak and EBSCO’s Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, and Ultra School Edition Academic Search Premiere. These databases are often made available to school and public libraries from state databases. 

Cobblestone/Carus	Scholastic
Cobblestone	Super Science
Calliope	Science World
Spider	Scholastic News (various grades)
Ladybug	Scholastic Art
Click	Upfront (with The NY Times)
Ask	Dynamath
Faces	Scholastic Math
Muse

Kids Discover	National Geographic	National Wildlife Federation	Time, Inc.
Kids Discover	Nat. Geographic for Little Kids	Wild Animal Baby	Time for Kids
	Nat. Geographic for Kids	My Big Backyard
		Ranger Rick

Locating Websites: Resources for Audio, Video, and Primary Sources

ALA  Best Web Sites for Kids (A list of recommended websites, updated regularly) http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

Online Resources for Primary Sources in History:

New England

Massachusetts Historical Society

http://www.masshist.org/

Maine Memory Network

http://www.mainememory.net/

Vermont Historical Society

http://www.vermonthistory.org/

Rhode Island Historical Society

http://www.rihs.org/

New Hampshire Historical Society

http://www.nhhistory.org/

Connecticut Historical Society

http://www.chs.org/

Peabody Essex Museum

http://www.pem.org/

Museum of Fine Arts

http://www.mfa.org/

Mystic Seaport Online Collections and Research

http://library.mysticseaport.org/home.cfm

Plimouth Plantation

http://www.plimoth.org/

Harvard University Open Collections

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/

Brown University Center for Digital Initiatives

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/collections.php

Yale University Digital Collections

http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/digcoll.html

Nationwide

Library of Congress Teacher Page (*** an excellent starting point!)

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

American Memory of the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/

The Smithsonian Institute (all museums)

http://www.si.edu/

Museum of American History

http://www.nasm.si.edu/

The National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC

http://www.tenement.org/

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

Online Resources for Primary Sources in Science:

National Geographic

 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Smithsonian Institute

http://www.si.edu/

National Air and Space Museum

http://www.nasm.si.edu/

Museum of Natural History

http://www.mnh.si.edu/

National Zoo

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/

San Diego Zoo

 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/index.php  (great web cams)

Bronx Zoo

 http://www.bronxzoo.com/

American Museum of Natural History

www.amnh.org

NASA Educators

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html