Archive for the ‘African-American Studies’ Category

  • National Black Home Educators

    Monday, September 13th, 2010

    National Black Home Educators is a non-profit organization dedicated to “encourage, support and offer fellowship to families who are exploring benefits of home education.” The Christian organization was founded in 2000 by Eric and Joyce Burges of Baker, Louisiana, who have homeschooled their five children. NBHE hosts an annual conference, which will be held in [...]

  • Homeschool Resources: African American History from the Chicago History Museum

    Sunday, September 5th, 2010

    The Chicago Historical Society has three units about African American history available on the Chicago History Museum website. Slavery and Freedom in America focuses on the life of Hannah Harris, a slave on a Virginia plantation.  Written for grades 5 – 8, the unit is divided into two one-week lessons.  The first, “Meet Hannah the [...]

  • Excerpts from Slave Narratives for Homeschool History Lessons

    Monday, July 19th, 2010

    by Todd Durell The brutality and inhumanity of the slave trade from Africa to America is documented in passages from primary sources on the website, Excerpts from Slave Narratives.  Edited by Steven Mintz of the University of Houston, this website offers the student of history 46 personal narratives written by slaves, slave traders, military officers, [...]

  • Homeschool History Lessons: The African-American Migration Experience

    Friday, June 25th, 2010

    by Todd Durell Published by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the In Motion website examines thirteen migrations in the history of Americans of African descent, beginning with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and following the movement of African-Americans up to the present day.  Some of the unit topics include [...]

  • Homeschool History Resources: Historical Maps of Africa at Afriterra

    Thursday, June 17th, 2010

    by Todd Durell If you’re homeschooling and looking for an image of a historical map of Africa to use in a history or geography lesson, try searching the database at Afriterra.  A project of the Afriterra Foundation, the website contains more than 1000 high resolution images of maps of Africa.  The oldest map in the [...]