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Explain how the significance of slavery grew in American politics including slave rebellions and the rise of abolitionism.

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United States History Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies United States History Teacher Notes
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Teacher Content Videos

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Playlist Topics
These are short, classroom appropriate videos designed to support students in U.S. History. ​​

1. English Colonization - USH1
2. Causes of the American Revolution - USH3
3. Creating the Constitution - USH5c-e
4. Big Business - USH11
5. Foreign Relations at the Turn of the 20th Century - USH14a-b
6. National Identity after WWI - USH16
United States History Curriculum Map
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Instructional Resources

United States History Curriculum Map

Sample Units

Unit 1: Connecting Themes
Unit 2: Colonialism Document Set
Unit 3: Revolution and Constitution Document Set
Unit 4: Early Republic, Expansion, and Reform Document Set
Unit 5: Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction Document Set
Unit 6: Expansion and Reform
Unit 7: World War I and the 1920s
Unit 8: Great Depression and World War II
Unit 9: Cold War and Civil Rights
Unit 10: Modern US History

Distance Learning Resources

Unit 2: Topic - The Pocahontas Story PPT

​ Unit 6: The Progressive Era and the Empowerment of the Voter

Instructional Activity Videos

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Playlist Topics

1. Better Feedback - USH1-2
2. Circle Maps
3. Cornell Notes
4. The Dinner Party - USH13, 16
5. Document Analysis: Explicit vs Inferences
6. Edmodo - USH10
7. Exit Questions - USH20
8. Gamification of US History
9. Jigsaw - USH3
10. Mock Journal Entries
11. Reflections - USH5,11,15
12. Student Created Multiple Choice - USH6
13. Summarizers
14. Systematic Thinking - What? So What? Now What?
15. Think Alouds
16. Vocab Quizzes
17. Vocabulary Strategies

Social Studies Labs

* George Washington: Are leaders Born or Made? PDF Version PPT Version
* Domestic Impact of World War I PDF Version PPT Version

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United States History - Social Studies Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

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Note: Social Studies Resources are developed and reviewed by educators. Be a part of our community by providing feedback for resources and by joining this virtual community. United States History Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies United States History Teacher Notes To view this video series in the embedded YouTube playlist below, click the menu in the upper-left corner of the video and select a playlist topic.

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Where Every Month is Black History Month

The APEX (African American Panoramic Experience) Museum is located in the historic Sweet Auburn district of Downtown Atlanta. The museum is devoted entirely to African American history as a means of promoting cultural awareness and the social contributions of African Americans in Georgia.

Reasons to visit the APEX Museum

1. From stories about one of Atlanta's first black-owned businesses and pioneer to local history and baseball lore or videos at the Trolley Theater, the APEX Museum is full of history.

2. Atlanta's APEX Museum features artifacts, photographs, children's shows, presentations and more-all related to African American culture, past and present.

3. The exhibits at the APEX Museum are designed to create a personal connection between the artifacts and the visitors, an experience that allows visitors to resonate with a place during a period that may be unfathomable for them today.

Atlanta's APEX Museum is home to African American history.

Insider tips

Plenty of people know about the druggist who invented Atlanta's famous soft drink. At the APEX Museum, you will learn about another famous Atlanta druggist, Moses Amos, Atlanta's first Black certified pharmacist.

Among the documents in the museum's exhibit about the slave trade, "Africa: The Untold Story," are logs listing the names, ages and value of enslaved people.

At the APEX Museum, see a timeline of African history that goes all the way back to 5500 BC.

One way to explore this gem is to connect it with your visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park, which is 10 minutes away by foot. First, book a free tour of Dr. King's birth home at the MLK visitor center then proceed to the Apex Museum while you wait. Lessons learned about Africa and the slave trade will provide perspective on Dr. King's life's work.

Know before you go

Where is the APEX Museum located?

The APEX Museum is located in the Sweet Auburn district of Downtown Atlanta at:
135 Auburn Ave
Atlanta, GA 30303

When is the APEX Museum open?

The APEX Museum's regular operating hours are:
Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday - Monday: closed

Discover More

Get to know Atlanta, and discover the best things to do around the city.

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APEX Museum in Atlanta - Where Every Month is Black History Month - Discover Atlanta

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Conduct an interview with someone in the Atlanta community who is considered an underrepresented voice focusing on their experiences and how it shapes the way they see and navigate through the world today

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National Center for Civil and Human Rights

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Plan Your Visit

A typical visit lasts approximately 90 minutes to two hours. Make the most of your visit to The Center by planning your visit.

Hours

Tuesday - Friday & Sunday:
12pm to 5pm

Saturdays:
10am to 5pm
Last entry at 4pm daily.

Experience the virtual tour! The National Center for Civil and Human Rights invites you to enjoy the rich history and contemporary relevance of our exhibits.

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Looking for something to do in Atlanta? Visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and explore the museum connects the history of civil rights movements to the human rights movements of today.

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Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.

Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain's logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the "negro burying ground" uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere.

Using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca's own story as the legacy of slavery shapes life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her.

Illustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Art Spiegelman's Maus. The story of both a personal and national legacy, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.

Rebecca Hall, JD, PhD, is a scholar, activist, and educator. After graduating Berkeley Law in 1989, she represented low-income tenants and homeless families for eight years before returning to get her PhD in history. She has taught at UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley Law, Berkeley's history department, and as a visiting professor of law at the University of Utah. She writes and publishes on the history of race, gender, law, and resistance as well as articles on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Rebecca has been an activist her entire life, fighting for women's and LGBT rights and against nuclear weapons, Apartheid, and US militarism. She is dedicated to the movement for Climate Justice, and is also currently involved with Black Lives Matter and rapid response support for families facing deportation. She is also working on a collection of essays on the history of "racialized gender" in developing chattel slavery in America, and how this shapes our constructs of race and gender to this day. Dr. Hall's work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including the American Association of University Women, The Ford Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. You can find out more about her at RebHallPhD.org.

Hugo Martínez is an independent comic artist focused on depicting narratives of struggle, identity, and resilience. He is based in New Orleans.

"Powerful.... Wake is operating in the wake of slavery, and in a state of being awake to the past, a process Hall frames as both devastating and grounding." -New York Times Book Review

"Hall's eloquence and frank emotionalism are transcendently realized in Martínez art, beckoning the reader inexorably into this story - even the parts that only take place inside Hall's mind. With its remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection, Wake sets a new standard for illustrating history." -NPR

"A vividly illustrated account of Black women rebels that combines elements of memoir, archival research, and informed imaginings of its subjects' lives.... An urgent, brilliant work of historical excavation." -Kirkus *starred review*

"Heartbreaking yet triumphant, Hall's vivid reconstructions bore laser-like into a history long hidden. Her engaged scholarship adds back facts that have been stricken from many histories, and it empowers current lives and activism. Highly recommended for educators and for all adults and teens concerned about the United States' promise, past, and future for its diverse peoples." -Library Journal, *starred review*

"Hall's nuanced and affecting debut graphic narrative uncovers history that has either been assumed non-existent or rendered violently so by its almost complete erasure from official record.... The story follows Hall as she strives to write her dissertation on women-led slave revolts.... Hall's singular look at these women, along with her own experiences and resilience, highlight how entwined the past and present really are. Martínez's resonant black-and-white art cleverly integrates historical scenes into the present-day narrative."- Publishers Weekly, *starred review*

"Martínez's dramatic woodcut-style illustrations are the perfect complement to Hall's clear-eyed, impactful storytelling...A necessary corrective to violent erasure and a tribute to untold strength, this awe-inspiring collaboration should find a wide audience."-Booklist, *starred review*

"Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery." - Angela Y. Davis, Political Activist and Professor Emerita, Departments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

"In this beautiful and moving graphic novel, historian Rebecca Hall unearths a history so often overlooked: the significant role Black women played in leading slave revolts. Through Hugo Martinez's vivid graphics, combined with Hall's brilliant insights and powerful storytelling, WAKE transports the reader to a moment in time when a group of Black women set out to overturn the institution of slavery in British North America. Their courageous story, told with remarkable skill and elegance, offers hope and inspiration for us all."- Keisha N. Blain, co-editor of the #1 NYT bestseller 400 Souls, award-winning author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

"We that live in the wake of centuries of white supremacy feel the hidden history of our ancestors ' struggle to survive uncovered in this book. In its pages we not only feel their sorrow in bondage, but also their elation when they finally broke free."- Ben Passmore, author of Your Black Friend

"Hall and Martínez connect the past and the present in a moving and exciting narrative that brings to light the history of slavery in the United States. Showing how enslaved women resisted slavery, even though their participation in rebellions remain largely absent from written records, WAKE will be a crucial tool to introduce students to the problematic nature of slavery primary sources."- Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard University

"WAKE's text is spare, informed, tuned to vibrating feeling and thought about historical and contemporary Black women's agency and actions in resistance and rebellion. As powerful as the text, are the astonishing graphics. Reading, I was drawn into frame after frame of graphic action and evocative description. These drawings brought me to tears, recognition, fury, gratitude, solidarity. In both pain and joy in struggle, Hall gives her readers "ancestry in progress." Consequences flow from living in the wake, admitting the haunting power of histories."- Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department, UCSC

"WAKE is a revelation. Rebecca Hall's prose intersects with Hugo Martinez's beautiful woodcut-styled illustrations to show the power of visual narratives and hearkens back to graphic masters like Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel. The stark play of light and dark in Martinez's work is a powerful index for the spiritually surreal and transcendent energy in every panel. Hall's writing cleverly flows between the reality of her research on Black women-led slave revolts and speculative imaginings that uncover the spectrum of human experience and resilience."- John Jennings, Eisner Award-winning illustrator of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Parable of the Sower graphic novels

"A lot of Black history is uncelebrated narratives, but even within that history there are narratives that are especially overlooked; these tend to be the stories of Black women. Rebecca Hall's diligent research and intelligent storytelling has flipped that script to celebrate the brave enslaved Black women who fought and died for their freedom with dignity. Hugo Martinez's expressive art brings these women to vivid life on the page."- Joel Christian Gill, author of Strange Fruit and Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence

"In Wake, Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez use the graphic medium to stunning effect. More than just a history, Wake is a meaningful engagement with a living past. Read this book slowly. Savor the visual metaphors. Let them take you back in time while Hall's narration pins you to the uncomfortable present. Make your reading a shared journey with friends or classmates who can help you uncover the deep meanings and cope with the emotions it raises. This book will haunt you the way that the legacies of slavery haunt this country."- Trevor Getz, Professor of African and World History and author of Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History

"Rebecca Hall has done something quite important in WAKE The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. She makes accessible the historians' craft in the service of telling the powerful stories of women-led slave revolts. With the moving illustrations of Hugo Martinez and the impressive storytelling of Hall, we are transported into 1712, 1708, and the 400-year history of the Black Atlantic, gaining a deeper sense of women-led uprisings. Mincing no words, Hall captures the fierceness of Black women's resistance. Infusing the text with her personal story and a sharp historical imagination, Hall never waivers in giving life to this history. She lifts the veil on enslaved women's leadership in the relentless pursuit of freedom. She brings into the present stories that must be read and passed on." -Rose M. Brewer, Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

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Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage.

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There's a particularly expressive drawing near the front of Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez' Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts that sums up what's unique about this graphic novel. Martínez draws Hall - a trained historian and lawyer - at the New York Historical Society, reading the records of a 1712 slave revolt in the city. She has found that two women named Sarah and Abigail were both sentenced to death in the wake of the revolt, but the authorities delayed one of the women's execution because she was pregnant.

Sifting through 300-year-old documents, Hall finds that this woman remained in prison for years while the governor corresponded with officials back in Great Britain about a possible pardon. But was the woman Abigail or Sarah? Was she executed, or eventually released? The letters don't say. "I can't find her. I'll never know what happened to Sarah or Abigail," Hall realizes, throwing her head back and flinging up her arms in a gesture of agonized frustration. She's sitting at a table in a crowded reading room, but Martínez sets her apart from the other visitors at this moment by drawing her as a reverse silhouette - a white void in the midst of the otherwise busy scene. With this one choice, he conveys multiple emotions at once: Hall's grief, so consuming that it wrenches her out of the flow of everyday events, and her identification with her subjects, two women whose fates are invisible in the historical record.

It also expresses something that may never before have been depicted in a comic (or anywhere else, for that matter): What it feels like to do historical research. There are numerous graphic novels about history, of course, but the creators always focus on the historical events themselves. The battles, the journeys, the ceremonies, the action - that stuff is easy to draw. What's hard is illustrating the historical process: squinting one's way through sheaves of correspondence, scanning documents for any mention of a key name, and simply thinking a lot. From the outside, a working historian just looks like someone sitting at a table for hours on end. How do you draw what's going on in their mind as they sort, filter and finally assemble scattered facts into a meaningful story of the past?

Martínez manages to do just that - not just with his drawing of Hall's silhouette in the reading room, but with a dozen other ingenious gambits. Sprawling yet perfectly balanced, his two-page compositions wrap the reader up in Hall's thoughts. In one, she seems to peer through a worn document into a vast whirlpool in which sailing ships founder, perhaps carrying crucial letters with them beneath the waves. In another, as she stands before a desk covered with papers, her shadow splits into the image of two Ahogi - female soldiers from the pre-colonial West African kingdom of Dahomey. Martínez' pages can be a bit overcrowded at times, with snarls of hectic lines obscuring his clever effects. But his versatility is amazing. He draws all sorts of complex scenes - from the interior of a log cabin in Nebraska to an Ahogi cavalry charge (a frontal view, no less!) - seemingly effortlessly. In one spread, he even turns a cascade of text blocks into a compositional element.

Martínez' innovative techniques are crucial to 'Wake's success. Hall doesn't just want to tell the parts of the story that are eminently drawable ... The other half is her own struggle against the conspiracy of silence that's shut these women out of history.

Martínez' innovative techniques are crucial to Wake's success. Hall doesn't just want to tell the parts of the story that are eminently drawable - daring, desperate women attacking slavers in the streets or chiseling through chains in the holds of the death ships. Those stories are here, and they're gripping, but they make up only half of Hall's saga. The other half is her own struggle against the conspiracy of silence that's shut these women out of history. "As far back as I can remember, I've been searching for women warriors," Hall reflects in the opening pages. "Pickings were slim." That's partly because of who was keeping the records: governments seeking to "set policy, maximize profits and avoid costly revolts," she notes. As a result, she "must read the documents against the grain" to tease out scant bits of evidence about enslaved women's experiences - "assuming there are any documents to be found at all."

Hall's eloquence and frank emotionalism are transcendently realized in Martínez art, beckoning the reader inexorably into this story - even the parts that only take place inside Hall's mind. With its remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection, Wake sets a new standard for illustrating history.

Etelka Lehoczky has written about books for The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times. She tweets at @EtelkaL.

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A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back

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There's a particularly expressive drawing near the front of Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez' Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts that sums up what's unique about this graphic novel. Martínez draws Hall - a trained historian and lawyer - at the New York Historical Society, reading the records of a 1712 slave revolt in the city.

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SSUSH7 Investigate political, economic, and social developments during the Age of
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Welcome to the Gulliver Preparatory Upper School Black History Month Virtual Museum.

In a time when it is especially difficult to bring people together (physically , philosophically, or ideologically), this project showcases the accomplishments of a diverse group of individuals, and sparks conversations that will ultimately help us think and feel differently about each other and ourselves. Explore the links and enjoy!

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Welcome to the Gulliver Preparatory Upper School Black History Month Virtual Museum. In a time when it is especially difficult to bring people together (physically, philosophically, or ideologically), this project showcases the accomplishments of a diverse group of individuals, and sparks