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Activity: Mahogany, Walnut, or Journeyman's Price?

Examine the ways economic factors influence decision making.

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Activity: Myth Busting!

Consider various myths told about the history of the United States and investigate their origins, different accounts, and how perspectives shape our understanding.

The Common Good

Americans are known for their commitment to individual freedom: freedom to make their own choices, freedom to speak their mind, and freedom to come and go as they please.

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Activity: Perspective Taking with Places and People in History

Use this activity to explore different points of view and perspectives depicted in historic artworks like The Burning of the Old South Church.

Litografía de una mujer negra que lleva un pañuelo con la palabra LIBERACIÓN mientras llamas brillantes salen disparadas de él sobre un fondo azul oscuro y morado.

Actividad: Arte y activismo

Crea tu propia obra de arte inspirada en la obra de Betye Saar, Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time (Blues de soplado superior: El fuego la próxima vez).

Lithograph of a black woman wearing a bandana featuring the word LIBERATION as bright flames shoot out of it on a dark blue and purple background.

Activity: Art and Activism

Make your own work of art inspired by Betye Saar's work, Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time.

Overview: Out of Many, One?

Americans have long created an identity based on distinct principles and values that define the country. This unit explores the tensions between being an individual and being part of a group or nation and provides insight into what it means to be an individual in America, today and centuries ago.

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Activity: Judgement and Group Belonging 

Consider what influences group behavior and the formation of in-groups and out-groups.

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Activity: Make a Contemporary Connection to Inventions

Examine the role of innovation in relationship to progress and improvements in lifestyle and consider the impact of these improvements on the environment.

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Activity: Twenty-First Century Object

Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.