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A Case Study of the Sanders-Venning Family for K-12 Educators, presented by Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

Close reading of primary sources provides ways to study broad historical movements through the eyes and lives of people who usually are not in textbooks. This workshop features scrapbooks and friendship albums made by free black young women in the north post-Civil War and offers insight into black middle-class life throughout the 1800s. Information and resources shared will bolster social studies, language arts, and art curriculum as the sources shine light on 19th century political and social history, especially on topics of childhood, social and economic class, and art and literature. Teachers will leave with books, reproductions of sources, and prepared unit plans.

This program will be held at the Library Company, next door to HSP.  Act 48 credit will be given, and free dinner and admission are provided.

HSP is proud to collaborate with the Library Company of Philadelphia on its Mclean Contributionshiip Educational Outreach Initiative within its Program in African American History. The Program in African American History brings together scholars and interested members of the public to explore and discuss every aspect of the experience of people of African descent in the Americas from the beginnings of European colonization through 1900. For more than forty years, the African Americana collections of the Library Company have helped nurture and sustain rich scholarship that has added dramatically to our knowledge and understanding of that experience—and public exhibitions, lectures, and programs have sought to involve the broadest possible audience.