PBS
New Perspectives on the West: Juan Seguin
Juan Seguin, a Mexican American Tejano who helped lead the Texas revolution and independence survived the Alamo but was then exiled from the new state, a victim of prejudice.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Jane Austen
This site features the author Jane Austen including a biography and the full text of seven novels including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Mansfield Park.
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Slavery in the North: Exclusion of Blacks
After emancipation, African Americans were granted rights, such as voting or sitting on a jury, in some Northern states. But often they were prevented from exercising these rights due to the deeply ingrained prejudices of whites.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The American West: The Gold Rush
Describes the impact of the California Gold Rush of 1848 which brought hundreds of thousands of gold-seeking migrants to the region. This massive influx of people to a place with little law enforcement and no infrastructure led to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Anti Asian Racism: Connections in History
This collection of educational resources will help students make sense of anti-Asian racism today by connecting it with history. Americans of Asian descent have lived and contributed to the development of the United States. The first...
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An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: Chinese Digital Photo Album
This photo album shows the Chinese as they lived in the Kootenays in Victorian days. They are seen here as miners, servants and shopkeepers and with family members.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Jane Austen
At this website, access full texts of "Emma," "Lady Susan," "Mansfield Park," "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Sense and Sensibility." Also provided is a brief write-up on the life and career of Jane Austen,...
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Social Psychology Basics
This site from the Shippensburg University has a wealth of information about social psychology. This page focuses on person perception and the mental structures involved. You can also find information on self defense, prejudice, social...
Friesian School
Fresian.com: Stereotypes
This site gives an essay regarding various prejudices. Very informative and easy to understand.
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Exploring Definitions: Discrimination, Racism & Sexism
A challenging exercise to help students define prejudice, discrimination, racism, sexism, and homophobia in their own words.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jane Austen
Check out this site featuring links to lesson plans, activities and more for "Pride and Prejudice." You will also find links that explore the life of Jane Austen.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", by Mildred D. Taylor is a riveting, Newbery Award winning novel, about a family living in the 1930s Jim Crow South. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
Yale University
Gilder Lehrman Center: The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
From a contemporary article in The Crisis, Vol. XVIII, October, 1919, Walter White enumerates what he sees as the causes of the Chicago Race Riot. Very interesting to read a viewpoint written only a few months after the riot.
Oakland Museum of California
Gold Rush: Prospecting: Chinese Placer Mining
This resource presents information about Chinese miners in California and the prejudice they suffered.
Curated OER
Kootenay: An Exploration of Prejudice Sikhs (And Other Groups)
The Sikh were one group who came to British Columbia to work on the railway, and suffered much discrimination from Victorian settlers. This page offers a brief synopsis about this as part of a larger exhibition on prejudice.
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Crow: Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology
This page provides links to several subcategories of social cognition such as prejudice, persuasion, attitudes, and altruism. Once you click on the topic you have a variety of sources to choose from for more information.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pride and Predjudice Chapter One
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, students read the chapter and work through multiple choice questions that get at various reading skills and strategies. Based on the results, the teacher...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Two Towns of Jasper (Classroom Resources on Racism)
Classroom resources that examine the history and intent of hate groups in the United States and the notorious race-motivated murder committed in Jasper, Texas, by three white supremacists. Resources take students through a number of...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century: Exclusion: Chinese Perspectives
This lesson uses primary sources to take a look at the Chinese perspective on the issue of the Exclusion Act and the effects of prejudice and discrimination on the Chinese population in the United States in the late 19th century.
Duke University
Conscience of a Nation: John Hope Franklin on African American History
An exhibition on African-American history that is inspired by the work of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), an African-American scholar who studied the historical roots of racial prejudice. The exhibit presents primary documents, texts,...
University at Buffalo
State University of New York: Mathematicians of African Diaspora: The Ancients
Resources for learning about the history of mathematics in ancient Africa, specifically the diaspora. Looks at the prejudices that existed in past centuries towards African people, at mathematical discoveries and artifacts from Africa...
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I Boston: Boston Police Strike of 1919
The year 1919 was a year of strikes all across America. Read about the Boston police force's attempts to unionize in order to improve wages and working conditions. The disastrous results were attributed partly to ethnic prejudice, partly...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
[Free Registration/Login Required] These teacher resources offer different interpretations of The Merchant of Venice, an often controversial play with a combination of the issues of prejudice, debt, and injustice along with traditional...
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A Web of Understanding: Jews
This page is part of a 2001 display on prejudice created by the museum. Here you can read original documents that highlight the anti-Semitism faced by Jewish people in British Columbia in the Victorian era.
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