Reform in 19th-Century America
Watch: Crash Course 13, Slavery
Watch: Crash Course 15, 19th-Century Reforms
Watch: Crash Course 16, Women in the 19th Century
Read: Cunningham, Vision. “Making a Home for Black History.” The New Yorker, Aug. 29, 2016. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/analyzing-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture

Weekly Writing 5. What are the article’s author’s critiques of how the museum depicts slavery? What do you think the museum director means when he states, “What I argue is: This is not a black museum. This is a museum that uses one culture to understand what it means to be an American.” How does this approach to depicting history to the public compare to the approach in the Hall of Fame? How does reading the article about the museum add to or contrast to the information in the Crash Course videos?