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THE CHOICES PROGRAM BROWN UNIVERSITY

A New Nation: Introduction

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Michael Vorenberg Emily Owens Colin Calloway Christy Clark-Pujara Linford Fisher Françoise N. Hamlin

Date Filmed

April 26, 2018

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We the People:
A New Nation

Videos from Michael Vorenberg

Why is it important for high school students to learn about the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution?
Why were state constitutions inadequate after the American Revolution?
What did James Madison hope would happen at the Constitutional Convention?
What crises led to the Constitutional Convention?
How were issues of representation addressed at the Constitutional Convention?
Who were the Federalists and who were the Anti-Federalists?
What were the Federalist Papers?
Why did the federal government “reconstruct” the South?
What were the limitations of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Who are you and what do you do?
Was the American Civil War a war over slavery?
What role did enslaved Black people play in the American Civil War?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about Reconstruction?
Why is the civil rights movement sometimes called the “second Reconstruction”?
In what ways was Black life under Jim Crow similar to life under slavery?
Why did the federal government eventually abandon Reconstruction?
How did Reconstruction transform Black life in the South?
How did white people in the South resist Reconstruction?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
What was the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
What is the basic principle of American democracy?
Why should high school students learn about the Constitution?
Why has the U.S. Constitution endured for more than 200 years?
What is the role of the Constitutional amendment?
Why did the Constitution have to be amended to abolish slavery?
How did the U.S. Constitution exclude certain groups?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Emily Owens

Who are you and what do you do?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about slavery in the United States?
What was the transatlantic trade of enslaved people?
How did gender shape the experiences of slavery?
What is the difference between history and memory?
How are the history and memory of Confederate monuments different?
What is structural racism?
How was structural racism a part of the founding of the United States?
What is patriarchy?
How was patriarchy part of the founding of the United States?
What do historians mean when they talk about historical silences?
What kinds of sources can be used to show how enslaved people experienced their lives?
What are some common misconceptions about slavery in the United States?
How did enslaved people respond to and resist slavery?
How do racism and patriarchy intersect?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Colin Calloway

How did Indian societies adapt to the arrival of Europeans?
What was the North American West like before Europeans arrived?
Why is it important to incorporate Native American perspectives in U.S. history?
How does the Kiowa smallpox legend contribute to our understanding of their history?
In Indian societies, what is the purpose of a myth or legend?
How do Indian primary sources contribute to our understanding of westward expansion?
What things do historians have to consider when they analyze Native American primary sources?
How did interactions between Indian and European groups in the West change after 1800?
How did horses change the lives of Native American women?
Who are you and what do you do?
Why are Indian views sometimes left out of the history of the West?
How is the term “westward expansion” problematic?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Christy Clark-Pujara

Who are you and what do you do?
What is the difference between history and memory?
What was the role of enslaved people in the American Revolution?
How have the legacies of slavery affected the history of the United States?
How did enslaved people challenge the institution of slavery?
Why should high school students learn about the experiences of Black people in colonial and early America?
What was life like for enslaved people in New England?
Why does the misperception that slavery only happened in the southern United States exist?
What role did slavery and enslaved people play in the northern colonies of the present-day United States?
How did the “business of slavery” link economies in the Atlantic World?
Why did Europeans create the system of racial slavery in the Americas?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Linford Fisher

How did the French and Indian War affect life for Native people?
What was the relationship between Native people and European colonists?
Why should students consider diverse perspectives when studying the founding of the United States?
Who are you and what do you do?
What was life like for Native people in the North American colonies?
Why were British goods important to colonists?
What was society like in colonial North America?
How were Native people affected by the American Revolution?
How did colonial women express revolutionary ideas?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Françoise N. Hamlin

Who were the enslaved people in the British North American colonies?
How is racial inequality rooted in the founding of the United States?
Why did colonists in the British North American colonies support the institution of slavery?
What was life like for free Black people in the British North American colonies?
How did Black Southerners resist Jim Crow?
What was life like for Black people in the South under Jim Crow?
Why is it difficult to say when the civil rights movement began and ended?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
Who are you and what do you do?
How has racism impacted how Americans think about identity?
How did slavery change after U.S. independence from Britain?
Why didn’t the Declaration of Independence extend rights to enslaved people?
What were the Brown vs. the Board of Education cases?
Why was the murder of Emmett Till important?
Why did Black activism begin to be more successful in the 1950s?
What were the major accomplishments of the civil rights movement and what challenges remain?
What was Black Power?
How did the civil rights movement change in the late 1960s?
Was the federal government supportive of the civil rights movement?
How did white Southerners resist Black activism?
How did the movement that arose in the 1960s differ from earlier Black activism?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Whose interests did the U.S. Constitution reflect?
Who was Emmett Till?
Why did some enslaved people support different sides during the American Revolution?
A New Nation: Introduction
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