Educators will learn about strategies and activities that use primary and secondary sources to help students think about this history.

Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois, is a seminal text originally published in 1935. It is Dubois's ground-breaking study of the role African Americans played during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. So often history curricula move quickly from the Civil War to Jim Crow, skipping quickly over one of the most important moments of radical democratic experimentation in US history that Du Bois dubbed “Black Reconstruction.” In this workshop, educators will learn about strategies and activities that use primary and secondary sources (including Du Bois’ work) to help students think about this crucial episode in history.