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It Is My Desire to Be Free: Annie Davis's Letter to Abraham Lincoln and Winslow Homer's Painting "A Visit from the Old Mistress"
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Hussey, Michael; Eder, Elizabeth K. – Social Education, 2010
"Mr. President, It is my Desire to be free," wrote Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln, 20 months after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation affected only those parts of the country that were in rebellion against the United States on the date it was issued, January 1, 1863. The slaveholding border states of…
Descriptors: United States History, Slavery, Letters (Correspondence), Presidents
Using Common Assessments to Inform Social Studies Instruction and Professional Development
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Baker, Nicholas John – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the problem of inconsistent achievement in social studies on the Delaware State Testing Program (DSTP) at a high school in Delaware. Since 2002, the district began an initiative to create common assessments for all core content areas that were meant to align with the state standards. In social studies, that initiative was the…
Descriptors: United States History, Testing Programs, State Standards, Grade 11
The Scholar-Activist of Brown: Scholars Reflect on the Intellectual Contributions to the Historic Desegregation Case: Brown@50-- How Far have We Come?
Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
When asked by Thurgood Marshall during the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case to join a team of scholars to answer questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court about the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, Dr. John Hope Franklin didn't hesitate to accept. This document contains personal accounts of the famous…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Historians, Constitutional Law