Today’s Document from the National Archives- "Young pickers on Swift's Bog..." September 20, 2019Taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine on September 20, 1911, this photograph is one of a series of black-and-white prints given to the Children’s Bureau by the National Child Labor Committee. The almost five hundred photographs represent a fraction of the approximately 5,000 photographs Hine took for the committee to document working and living cond […]
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Movies for the Classroom: The History of Christmas, from the History Channel
I’ll be tackling Christmas in more detail next week. In the meantime, here’s the History Channel’s documentary about the history of Christmas, from the birth of Christ to Scrooge, to Jimmy Stewart and the Grinch. Students can definitely get some useful information about a holiday that is often lost in all the hype.
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