From the Library of Congress website:
"In this interview from 1940, Mr. George Johnson of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, shares memories of slavery times, including his relationship with Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy."
Alice Kessler-Harris reads a paper by John Hopkins University's Blanche Wiesen Cook at the Organization of American Historians 2009 meeting. The paper relates Cook's experiences as a John Hopkins student during the civil rights movement, fighting for desegregation.
Donald L. Miller, with Waldo E. Martin, Jr., and Virginia Scharff, looks at the Progressive era (from 1890 to 1926) as it was experienced by minority groups, including women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian and Mexican immigrants.
Donald L. Miller and Louis P. Masur trace the American impulse to reform from 1800 to 1848. They look at the development of political parties, including the Democrats and the Whigs; reform associations and movements, including changes in attitudes toward education, alcohol, and punishment of criminals; women's rights efforts; the fervor of the Second Great Awakening; and the continuing debate over slavery.
Eric Langhorst, Missouri eighth-grade history teacher, reviews the National Archives book Our Documents, which collects 100 political documents chosen as the most important in U.S. history.
Eighth-grade teacher Eric Langhorst discusses how he uses Twitter as an individual and as an educator.
Eighth-grade American history educator Eric Langhorst discusses the PBS American Experience series We Shall Remain, which describes the Native American story within the context of American history. He offers thoughts on how educators might use clips from the series in the classroom.
Eighth-grade American history educator Eric Langhorst describes a project in which his students created short videos in the Common Craft-style to describe a variety of historical terms and concepts.
The audio podcast itself is located at the end of the post. The two video files are project examples.
Marshall S. "Mike" Smith, senior counselor to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, delivers the keynote address, "Education in the 21st Century," at a Library of Congress forum on K-12 education.
Forum speakers included Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, a leading advocate of using primary-source digital material in the classroom; former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, chairman of Strong American Schools; and Lauren Resnick, professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. There were also presentations by educators from Colorado, Illinois, and Northern Virginia in the Library of Congress's groundbreaking Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Program; Gov. Romer introduced the second panel and provided an overview of attempts to promote high content standards for K-12 education.
Maurice Jackson discusses Anthony Benezet, the founder of the antislavery movement in America in the mid-1700s. Benezet believed the British ban on slavery should have been extended to the colonies, and worked to convince his Quaker brethren that slave-owning was not consistent with Christian doctrine.