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Teaching The Hidden Story of Two Black Women Looking Out From the Pages of a 19th-Century Book

The Hidden Story of Two Black Women Looking Out From the Pages of a 19th-Century Book

Clues that provide a fuller picture of the past are out there—if we just know where to look. This is our story of how we found one of these important clues and what we learned from it.

Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Why have some people been overlooked in history?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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