Freedom in the Late 19th Century
2012, civll war, emancipation, gender, hahn, immigration, john brown, lesh, reconstruction, slavery, Stanley, strike, strikes, summer, summer session, supreme court
The 2012 summer session is from June 26-29 in Hutchinson. Our scholars are:
![]() Dr. Steven Hahn Professor of History University of Pennsylvania |
![]() Dr. Amy Dru Stanley Associate Professor of History University of Chicago |
Our Master Teacher is:

Bruce A. Lesh
Social Studies Department Chair
Franklin High School, Reisterstown, Maryland
Print / Handouts (pdfs):
Dr. Steven Hahn
Black Soldiers in the Union Army
Lynching victims
Dr. Amy Dru Stanley
Images of the late 1800s
Reconstruction Amendments
Bradwell v the United States
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon
Bruce Lesh
Common Core Expectations and History Labs
Lesh handouts
John Brown Lesson Plan
John Brown Graphic Organizer
John Brown Presentation
John Brown Images
Interpreting John Brown: Infusing Historical Thinking into the Classroom article
FreedMan's Bureau Lesson Plan and Images
FreedMan's Bureau Presentation
Segregation and Disenfranchisement Presentation
Segregation and the Blues Lesson Plan / Resources
Emancipation Proclamation Lesson Plan
Emancipation Proclamation Presentation
America Reacts to the New Immigrants Materials and Images
Immigration and Political Cartoons presentation
1877 Rail Strike Materials and Images
The Frenzy and What Came of It lesson plan
The Great Strike of 1877 presentation
Homestead Steel Strike Materials and Images
Homestead Steel Strike presentation
Pullman Railstrike Testimony Resources and Images
Pullman Railstrike presentation
Useful Links:
Counterfactual example
Counterfactual History: A User's Guide
Clopton's Short History of the Confederates States of America: 1861-1925 (an extreme counterfactual example)
Wikipedia's Counterfactuals
Birth of a Nation (Wikipedia)
Birth of a Nation (Video download)
Without Sanctuary
Visualizing Emancipation
Slavery by Another Name (PBS website)
Rerum Novarum
The Lot of an American Steelworker
Hull House Maps and Papers
Jane Addams and Hull House
Cornell Supreme Court collection
Oyez Supreme Court collection (great site for summaries)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as teaching tool (Just for Mike M!)
Videos / Presentations:
Dr. Steven Hahn
Dr. Amy Dru Stanley
Bruce Lesh
Additional Readings:
American Negro Slave Revolts
From Slave to Priest
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nat Shaw
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Gospel of Wealth
Photos:
Flickr


