This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids Infobits Grade K-6, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, Gale's Reference Collection Grades 9-12, and EBSCO's History Reference Center to help students learn about the Buffalo Soldiers. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, Gale's Info Trac Student Edition, Gale's Student Resources in Context, EBSCO's Explora - Elementary, Middle, and High School, and World Book Encyclopedia to help students learn about The Battle of Bull Run. 

Students will create a Civil War film about a Civil War battle. Image: "Battle of Gettysburg", by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, Library of Congress, Wiki Commons.

Students will be engaged in learning about American history prior and during the Civil War. They will be exploring historical documents and learning about the stories of people involved. They will then create a digitial story of what they learned to share with the class. Image attribution: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Biography in Context and EBSCO's Biography Reference Center to help students learn about Federick Douglass. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits Grades K-6, Gale's Research in Context 6-8, Gale's Reference Collection Grades 9-12, EBSCO's Explora Elementary, and eMedia to help students learn about Harriet Tubman. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale Student Resources in Context, and EBSCO's Databases to help students learn about the Mason Dixon Line. 

The road to Emancipation was indeed stony! Enslaved people struggled to free themselves and loved ones, one person at a time.

This activity includes primary sources from the official records of the U.S. District Court at Boston that tell the story of William and Ellen Craft, a young couple from Macon, GA, who escaped to freedom in Boston in 1848. The two traveled together, Ellen as a White gentleman (she was the daughter of an African-American woman and a White master and passed as White), and William as her slave valet. They made their way to Boston, and lived in the home of Lewis Hayden, a former fugitive and abolition activist.

With the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in September, 1850, the Crafts' respective owners employed the legal system to regain their escaped property. A U.S. Marshal was sent to the home of Lewis Hayden. Hayden refused to let the marshal in and threatened to ignite kegs of gunpowder; the Marshal left. Ellen and William fled to Britain, where they remained for 20 years. They eventually returned to the United States and settled back in Georgia.

In this activity, students will examine historic documents about these fugitives from slavery. Then, using the documents, they will construct historical narratives to tell their story. They can explore perspective and use standard elements of writing (plot, character, setting, conflict, impact). Thinking about essential questions/topics, they will begin their writing with a topic/opening sentence that sets out the main idea.

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, EBSCO's Literary Reference Center, EBSCO's Explora (Elementary, Middle, and High School), Gale's Kids InfoBits Grades K-6, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, and Gale's Reference Collection Grades 9-12  to help students learn about Sojourner Truth. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically in the list below to help students learn more about the Underground Railroad. EBSCO Explora Elementary, Middle and High SchoolEBSCO Primary SearchEBSCO Middle Search PlusWorld Book EncyclopediaeMediaGale Discovering CollectionGale Virtual Reference LibraryGale InfoTrac Junior EditionGale InfoTrac Student EditionGale Opposing Viewpoints in ContextGale Student Resource Center - JuniorGale Student Resources in Context