Latest TeacherServe© news and events from the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve en Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:26:04 -0400 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:26:04 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/images/nhcxsmlogo.gif http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve 72 70 Home page of the National Humanities Center Web site. New essay, "Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition," by Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:41:19 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/jazz.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/jazz.htm New essay, "How Slavery Affected African American Families," by Heather Andrea Williams, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:11:14 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/aafamilies.htm New essay by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, "Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:32:26 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/reconstruction.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/reconstruction.htm New essay by Nancy MacLean, "The Civil Rights Movement: 1968-2008," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:02:43 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm2008.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm2008.htm New essay by Steven F. Lawson, "Segregation," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:22:16 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/segregation.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/segregation.htm New essay by Kevin K. Gaines, "Racial Uplift Ideology in the Era of the Negro Problem," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:53:34 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/racialuplift.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/racialuplift.htm New essay by Trudier Harris, "The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:19:06 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/harlem.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/harlem.htm New essay by Trudier Harris, "African American Protest Poetry," added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:11:23 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/aaprotestpoetry.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/aaprotestpoetry.htm New essay by Lucinda MacKethan just added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:11:23 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/douglassjacobs.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/douglassjacobs.htm New essay by William L. Andrews just added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:56:18 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/slavenarrative.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1609-1865/essays/slavenarrative.htm New essay by Joel E. Cohen just added to Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:43:52 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/population.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/population.htm New essay by Glenda Gilmore just added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:10:22 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/nadir.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/nadir.htm New essay by Trudier Harris added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Thu, 21 May 2009 12:32:43 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/pigmentocracy.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/pigmentocracy.htm New essay by Kenneth R. Janken added to Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:42:12 -0400 http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm Students reading about the coming of the Civil War will find the topic of religion and abolition more interesting than they imagined. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:35:22 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/amabrel.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/amabrel.htm The Civil War began with a largely symbolic battle at Fort Sumter, a battle in which the only fatality was a (southern) horse. Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:35:22 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/cwsouth.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/cwsouth.htm The Puritans were a varied group of religious reformers who emerged within the Church of England during the middle of the sixteenth century. Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:48:22 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/puritan.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/puritan.htm Teaching about Native American religion is a challenging task to tackle with students at any level. Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:42:22 -0400 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm