In this lesson students will examine how society interprets race and ethnicity as a part of identity. In particular, how questions of race and ethnicity have impacted the Arab American community and early attempts to gain citizenship and eventually a separate census category.
Through this lesson, students will gain a greater understanding of the various challenges that Syrian
refugees face. Students will read excerpts from interviews with Sanaa Domat, a Syrian woman originally from Homs. Students will learn about her experience in both her native country and in her new host country. By using oral histories in the classroom, distant events will become more real and relevant to students. Oral histories were collected by students in a Refugee Lives interactive learning course at Duke University, and are part of the Refugee Lives Oral History Project, http://sites.duke.edu/arabiccommunities/.
Through this lesson, students will gain a greater understanding of the various challenges that Iraqi
refugees face. Students will read excerpts from an interview with Sufyan A., an Iraqi man originally from Baghdad. Students will learn about his experience in both his native country and in his new host country. By using oral histories in the classroom, distant events will become more real and relevant to students. Oral histories were collected by students in a Refugee Lives interactive learning course at Duke University, and are part of the Refugee Lives Oral History Project, http://sites.duke.edu/arabiccommunities/.
The collection of Arabic papyrus, parchment, and paper at the J. Willard Marriott Library is the largest in the U.S. It contains several parchment pieces, 770 Arabic papyrus documents, and over 1,300 Arabic paper documents. The collection was compiled by Professor Atiya and his wife who purchased the collection over several years, largely from dealers in Egypt, Beirut, and London. Most of the collection originated in Egypt and the vast majority of the material is from 700 AD to the start of Ottoman rule. The collection is not yet cataloged.
The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the homes of notable Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S. presidents, as well as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Many of the photographs were commissioned by architects, designers, owners and architectural publications, and document important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior design.
This unit pulls from several collections in the Rockefeller Archive Center's holdings related to the history of voter education in America. The materials include documents that speak to female suffrage and combatting African-American voter suppression tactics in mid-century.
Poster showing text bordered by flags, bunting, an eagle, and smoking cannons. No. 10-A.
Poster shows a man and woman with bags of hoarded flour and sugar looking at the silhouette of a policeman walking by their blind-covered window. A Canada Food Board statement, detailing fines for hoarding, hangs on the wall. Title from item.
Poster showing a portrait of a horse and insignia of the Army Veterinary Corps. Text continues: Also meat and dairy inspection. Enlist today. See Army recruiting officer at [blank]. Title from item.
Text continues: You are helping the Germans: When you use a motor car for pleasure; When you buy extravagant clothes; When you employ more servants than you need; When you waste coal, electric light, or gas; When you eat and drink more than is necessary to your health and efficiency. Set the right example, free labor for more useful purposes, save money and lend it to the nation, and so help your country. Poster is text only. Poster no. 9. Title from item.
Poster shows portrait of Lord Kitchener with Union Jack as a background. Title from item.
Title appears as it is written on the item.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Poster showing a father with children, as they look at war savings certificates. Poster no. 35. (4415) Wt. 32162/2171 150,000 9/17 (E. 1795). Title from item.
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Poster showing a soldier with troops and tents in the background, presumably the Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Copyright by Military Training Camps Association. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
![Are You Trained to Do Your Share? Plattsburg [sic]](https://img.oercommons.org/160x134/oercommons/media/upload/materials/screenshots/materials-course-92554.png)
Poster showing soldiers marching with their rifles shouldered; tents and cannons in the background, presumably the Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Copyright by Military Training Camps Association. Poster allows space for additional information to be printed or inscribed. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Poster showing an image of Charles M. Schwab, in suit and bowler hat, observing workmen in a shipyard. Caption: Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, says, "I want everyone in the yards to understand that when we succeed in building these ships, the credit will belong to the men who actually built them. I want all the men in the shipyards to feel that they are working with me, not for me." Issued by Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia.
Poster is mostly text, with small illustrations of flags, rifles, and a moneybag. Text continues: Uncle Sam asks you to help by buying United States Government 3 1/2 % Liberty Bonds [...] Consult your nearest bank. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Poster showing soldiers and others busy with war work, as a well-dressed man looks on pensively. Designed by Lt. Gen. Sir R.S.S. Baden Powell. Poster No. 112. Title from item.
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Poster showing a soldier writing a letter by candlelight. Card no. 7. Mounted with other Liberty Loan posters. Title from item.
A dramatic portrayal, clearly biased toward the northern point of view, of an incident in Congress which inflamed sectional passions in 1856. The artist recreates the May 22 attack and severe beating of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina. Brooks's actions were provoked by Sumner's insulting public remarks against his cousin, Senator Andrew Pickens Butler, and against Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the Senate two days earlier. The print shows an enraged Brooks (right) standing over the seated Sumner in the Senate chamber, about to land on him a heavy blow of his cane. The unsuspecting Sumner sits writing at his desk. At left is another group. Brooks's fellow South Carolinian Representative Lawrence M. Keitt stands in the center, raising his own cane menacingly to stay possible intervention by the other legislators present. Clearly no help for Sumner is forthcoming. Behind Keitt's back, concealed in his left hand, Keitt holds a pistol. In the foreground are Georgia senator Robert Toombs (far left) and Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas (hands in pockets) looking vindicated by the event. Behind them elderly Kentucky senator John J. Crittenden is restrained by a fifth, unidentified man. Above the scene is a quote from Henry Ward Beecher's May 31 speech at a Sumner rally in New York, where he proclaimed, "The symbol of the North is the pen; the symbol of the South is the bludgeon." David Tatham attributes the print to the Bufford shop, and suggests that the Library's copy of the print, the only known example, may have been a trial impression, and that the print may not actually have been released. The attribution to Homer was first made by Milton Kaplan.|Probably printed by John H. Bufford, Boston.|Signed with monogram: WH (Winslow Homer).|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Tatham, "Pictorial Responses to the Caning of Senator Sumner," p. 15-16.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-1.|Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.