The Archive in the Classroom

Activity Units

In response to inquiries from various teachers, we have begun the construction of activity units which gather related files and suggest possible teaching approaches. To view some examples, please follow the highlighted links below.

Unit One: Race and Representation

Unit Two: Science and Pseudoscience

Unit Three: Gender and Identity

Unit Four: The Civil War

Unit Five: Lincoln: The Poet and the President

Unit Six: Whitman and 19th-Century New York

Unit Seven: Whitman and 19th-Century Literature

Unit Eight: Whitman and his Reviewers

Unit Nine: Portraits of the Self: Whitman and the Rise of Photography

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