Reform in 19^th-Century America

Watch: Crash Course 13, Slavery

Watch: Crash Course 15, 19^th-Century Reforms–

Watch: Crash Course 16, Women in the 19^th Century

Read: Cunningham, Vision. “Making a Home for Black History.” The New Yorker, Aug. 29, 2016.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/analyzing-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture

 Response paper 5. What are Cunningham’s concerns about how the museum depicts slavery? What do you think the museum director means when he states, “What I argue is: This is not a black museum. This is a museum that uses one culture to understand what it means to be an American.”  How does this approach to depicting history to the public compare to the approach in the Hall of Fame? How does reading the article about the museum add to or contrast to the information in the Crash Course videos or other sources you have used to learn American history?

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