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Leaving the plantation to learn more about it

There’s a lot you can learn when you search an image in a textbook. It took only a couple of minutes and good searching to get from a picture to letters written to the owner when in was originally built

Answering a DBQ or Doing History?

Can you evaluate the extent to which the United States “developed a national identity” between 1800 and 1855? If you think that’s tough – try it with the few documents the College Board gives you. Good luck!

Wonderfully Horrible

Reading a review of a book exploring how “My Old Kentucky Home” has been used to change understandings of slavery the first Friday morning is wonderfully horrible.