http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:38:14 PDT Fri, 24 May 2013 06:38:14 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=544291 After Slavery: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Emancipation CarolinasAfter Slavery is a transatlantic research collaboration between historians based in the US, Ireland and the UK. Directed from Queen's University Belfast and funded by the (UK) Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project's website offers a large collection of images and transcribed primary documents from dozens of archives across the US. Its 'Online Classroom' includes ten units on the aftermath of slave emancipation in the Carolinas:1. Emancipation: Giving Meaning to Freedom2. Freed Slaves Mobilize3. Land and Labor4. Freedom, Black Soldiers & the Union Military5. Conservatives Respond to Emancipation6. Pursuing Citizenship: Justice and Equality7. Gender and the Politics of Freedom8. Planters, Poor Whites and White Supremacy9. Coercion, Paramilitary Terror & Freedpeople's Resistance10. Freedpeople and the Republican PartyEach unit is made up of a collection of primary sources, annotated and supplemented by a select bibliography and a series of "Questions to Consider'. Most include illustrations from contemporary sources, and plans are in place for inclusion of a series of interactive maps and link to large collection of digital images of related documents now part of the Lowcountry Digital Library. What Scholars Are Saying about the After Slavery Website: “This engaging website combines the most up-to-date scholarship on the aftermath of slavery with a set of provocative and fascinating documents and other materials ideal for classroom use. It will allow a broad online readership to understand where our thinking now stands on this pivotal moment in American history.”Eric Foner Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University Author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 “This turning point in our history, explored in such detail at afterslavery.com is, sadly, mostly absent from the high school classroom. The stories of transformation and the long and arduous struggle for equality of 4 million former slaves–their struggle for recognition, freedom, and basic human rights–is rarely even touched on. After Slavery helps to fill this void in the American history curriculum by introducing cutting edge scholarship and well-chosen primary sources to bring voice to this untold story.”Ann Claunch Director of Curriculum, U. S. National History Day; Professor Emeritus in the History of Education, University of New Mexico“The After Slavery website explores the multiple meanings of the era of emancipation and conveys the very essence of the often tenuous struggle for freedom in starkly human terms.”Bernard E. Powers, Jr. Director of African American Studies, College of Charleston; author of Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885“This is an exciting, well-conceived, and very valuable project. It promises to be a great resource for scholars, teachers, and students. The history of the Carolinas can capture the variety of experiences in the period after slavery and also reveal the depth of the challenges faced as African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom.”Paul D. Escott Reynolds Professor of History, Wake Forest University; author of North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=663535 ״The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present. Prominent themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.Warning: Some of the lectures in this course contain graphic content and/or adult language that some users may find disturbing.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=663536 ״This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=730323 This is a free course offered by the Saylor Foundation.'African American literature grew out of the oral tradition of storytelling and spirituals. In this course, you will consider these verbal modes and their impact on the literary production of African American authors from the Colonial period to the current day. Along with considering the content of literary works, you will examine the cultural, historical, and political contexts of the literature, as well as how the issues of gender, race, and class affect the production and meaning of these works.In this course, you will examine the development of African American literature in seven units: Oral Traditions; The Literature of Slavery; Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance Movement; Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Black Arts; and the Contemporary Period. This course begins with a unit that studies African American literature’s inception through oral tradition. This unit will teach you about the beginnings of narrative and will ground your understanding in the development of the literary tradition.We will also identify the principal authors and characteristics of each of these periods and read representative texts.'