Instructional Video3:07
Cerebellum

Compromise And Conflict in America: 1848-1857 - Introduction To The Period

9th - 12th
This video looks at the documents conceived in a period when the civil rights of women and Native Americans were in question, and slavery was driving a wedge between slaveholders and abolitionists. Documents of Destiny: And Conflict...
Instructional Video10:08
Weird History

The Slave Who Mailed Himself To Freedom

12th - Higher Ed
The life of Henry "Box" Brown is so notable because he was an Antebellum-Era Virginia plantation slave who managed to mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box. The big question here is: how did he do it? Easy! He had the help of...
Instructional Video4:13
PBS

The Pain of History and Beloved

9th - 12th Standards
Readers of Toni Morrison's Beloved share their reasons for why the painful and powerful narrative should be on the list of books for the Great American Read program.
Instructional Video3:27
Biography

Frederick Douglass- Mini Biography

6th - 12th Standards
Before delving deeper into the writings of Frederick Douglass or the abolitionist movement, provide some historical background for your pupils with this brief video and gain a more complete understanding of Douglass' vision for a...
Instructional Video10:24
Curated OER

Sectionalism - A Review

9th - 12th
What is sectionalism? A loyalty to the interest of one's region, or sectionalism, is really what sparked the Civil War. Learn about the South's attempt at expanding slavery westward and the power struggle between the two regions...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionists: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

9th - 10th
Video clip tells about the impact of novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe on the abolitionist movement. [5:17] Supplemental material for both students and teachers is included.