This is a multi-format ethnographic field collection project, undertaken during the New …
This is a multi-format ethnographic field collection project, undertaken during the New Deal, that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.
On January 24, 1848, carpenter James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, …
On January 24, 1848, carpenter James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, a sawmill on the American River in Coloma, California. This news quickly spread across the country and around the world, igniting the California Gold Rush. Between 1848 and 1855, 300,000 fortune-seekers came to California, transforming its population, landscape, and economy. The largest wave of migrants—about 90,000 people—arrived in 1849, earning them the nickname “forty-niners.”
The necessity of teaching LGBTQ history has never been more apparent than …
The necessity of teaching LGBTQ history has never been more apparent than in the current political climate. Over the past year, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws have been proposed across the country. Several have specifically attempted to prohibit teaching about these topics. California educators remain committed to an inclusive curriculum and continue to lead the charge modeling best practices in teaching LGBTQ history.
But, the path has not always been clear. When California educators started to implement this flagship law, SB48, otherwise known as the FAIR Act, which called for inclusion of LGBTQ Americans in U.S. history courses at the K-12 level, so many questions arose. Most of the discussion has centered around how to make our curriculum more inclusive while efficiently managing our limited instructional time.
One of the key issues has been about whether to create stand-alone or integrated lessons. Stand-alone lessons are significant because they allow students to do a deep dive into a specific topic. This can be useful when addressing big issues in the LGBTQ past. Here are a few examples of lessons that do just that:
This is a primary source photo collection on Californios, elite families that …
This is a primary source photo collection on Californios, elite families that received large land grants from Spain and Mexico, flourished during the 1830s to 1880s. The hand-drawn diseño maps underscore their vital connection to land ownership. The more formal surveyed maps that followed US acquisition of California show changing values regarding land ownership. As Californios lost land and power in the late 19th century, they tried to adapt to these changes by using social networks to maintain their identities as elites. The formal portraits were one way to bolster this image. Photographs of the Ramona Pageant from the 1950s testify to the mythologizing of California's Mexican and Spanish pastoral heritage less than 100 years later.
Call and response has an important history in traditional West African music, …
Call and response has an important history in traditional West African music, especially in spiritual music and protest movements. Although the specific expression of this practice varies across the diaspora depending on the geographic location and musical lineage of practitioners, there are striking similarities in seemingly disparate locations, like the southern United States, Cuba, and northern Brazil. The preservation of call and response practices within these locations (and many others) suggests the importance of collectivity when healing from systemic oppression.
With this interest in mind, David Diaz invites students to join into this call and response by listening to and producing sounds and/or movements as they are comfortable. In joining a collective, there is also space for individuality, and even dissonance. In that interest, students can recognize the shared histories and practices that the music reveals, as well as the particularities of specific cultures and historical actors.
Once more the House of Representatives investigation of Treasury practices under the …
Once more the House of Representatives investigation of Treasury practices under the Van Buren administration in connection with the Swartwout embezzlement scandal. (See above nos. 1839-6 through -9.) The print must have appeared in January or February, after the House of Representatives voted to form its select investigative committee by ballot. Speaker of the House James K. Polk, perceived as a friend of the administration, was prevented by a Whig majority in the House from appointing the committee himself, as was customary. Here a kneeling, bespectacled Polk is berated by Satan (who could represent Van Buren). Satan: "What does this mean? How came you to let that Committee be chosen by ballot? Don't you know we're undone? Was it for this I made you Chancellor of the Exchequer? Did not you engage to do all our work? and manage the House for my interest? and here's that cursed [Whig Congressman Henry A.] Wise with his Committee breaking in to our Head Quarters! I'll cashier you!!" Polk: "Dread Sir! be not too wratful with your servant; I did my very best. You know I have not the influence I once had; I'm sure I turned & twisted & did all a man could. Pray try me but once more; See if I don't carry your Sub-Treasury Bill for you, & if that passes you know we are all made!" "Called to Account" is most probably by the same artist as "Symptoms of a Duel" (no. 1839-10).|Drawn by HD?|Entd . . . 1839 by H.R. Robinson.|Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt & 11-1/2 Wall st. N. Y.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 57.|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 1839-11.
This exhibit was created as part of the graduate course "Digital Libraries" …
This exhibit was created as part of the graduate course "Digital Libraries" in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Denver in Fall 2015.
Instructor: Krystyna Matusiak
Our chosen topic for the digital collection project was The 10th Mountain Division- Camp Hale. The 10th Mountain Division was a mountain warfare unit that primarily fought on skis. Camp Hale was one of their training sites and is located in Colorado. Our goals with this exhibit were to bring about awareness of the 10th Mountain Division and their connection to Colorado, explore different perspectives of this particular warfare unit, and give wide access to a curated digital exhibit that represents a unique part of Colorado history. We strived to demonstrate the variety of perspectives of Camp Hale through a variation of digital objects and content that will be engaging for all types of users: images, newspaper articles, videos, maps, and text.
Poster showing a soldier reading. Text continues: You will find popular books …
Poster showing a soldier reading. Text continues: You will find popular books for fighting men in the recreational buildings and at other points in this camp. Free. No red tape. Open every day. Good reading will help you advance. Library War Service, American Library Association.
Unit Theme: Elections, government, and advertisementsLesson Title: What’s a Campaign? …
Unit Theme: Elections, government, and advertisementsLesson Title: What’s a Campaign? Level: Grades 4-5Big Idea/Essential Question: What is an election? What is an election campaign? and How have election campaigns changed over time?
Poster (reproduction) showing jars of canned goods, including "Tomatoes," "Peas," and "Monarch …
Poster (reproduction) showing jars of canned goods, including "Tomatoes," "Peas," and "Monarch Brand Unsweetened" which contains a caricature of the Kaiser. Charles Lathrop Pack, President ; P.S. Ridsdale, Secretary. No. 47 ; No. 377. Title from item.
Poster showing a farmer stopping his plow and removing his hat, as …
Poster showing a farmer stopping his plow and removing his hat, as he looks up at a vision of St. Patrick with a cathedral in ruins. Title from item. Wt. 6211-12000.
Poster showing Liberty fending off Death as she protects a wounded soldier. …
Poster showing Liberty fending off Death as she protects a wounded soldier. American Field Service, 40 State Street, Boston, Mass. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
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