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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (ca. 1891–1960) was a writer and anthropologist associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated African American town in the nation. Hurston published her first short story in 1921, while still a student at Howard University. In 1925, Hurston received a scholarship to Barnard College and moved to New York City, where she joined other black writers and artists in the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston continued to publish and studied anthropology, and...
Primary Source
De Soto’s discovery of the Mississippi, 1541
Primary Source
The Massacre of American Indian allies, 1818
On April 23, 1818, Captain Obed Wright of the Georgia militia ordered an attack on a Chehaw village, which resulted in the slaughter of several American Indians. In a letter written a week after the attack, Brigadier General Thomas Glascock reported it to his superior officer, General Andrew Jackson. Glascock’s account of the Chehaw affair is important not only for its description of how 230 militiamen killed “seven men . . . one woman and two Children” but also for how it shaped Jackson’s response to the massacre.
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Teaching Resource
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Essential Question
What lessons have been learned about space travel from the Challenger incident?
What makes someone a hero?
Materials
“The Shuttle Explodes,” January 28, 1986, New York Times
Speech on the Challenger Disaster, Ronald Reagan, January 28,...