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Meet

  a new FREE website for teaching U.S. history by the

HERB
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning

http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu
History for
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HERB includes… 2
• More than 500 primary source documents
• More than 200 photographs, prints, cartoons and
other images
• More than 50 teaching activities Many of our documents and
activities have been
• Thematic collections featuring key historical designed for special
understandings education students and
English-language-learners.
• Articles, timelines, podcasts and other resources Look for items tagged
• More coming soon! “Reading Supports”

TEACHING WITH HERB’S COLLECTIONS

A Ride for Liberty, 1862


Who Freed the Slaves? How a War for Union
Became a War for Freedom

FOCUS QUESTIONS
How did runaway slaves
intensify the conflict over
slavery in the 1850s?

Caution! Poster from Boston, 1851


VOCABULARY
Apprehension: arrest Runaway Slave Advertisement
from Antebellum Virginia, 1854
Truss: a brace
Stout: heavy
Ruptured: torn READING SCAFFOLDS
Hernia: an injury to the There are SIX people
mentioned in this ad
stomach area caused
besides Osborne.
by heavy lifting
Create a chart that
shows the relationship
between them.

Lincoln in Richmond, 1865

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