Shaun Illingworth & Molly Graham: Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers

Friday, December 05, 2014, 09:00am - 04:30pm

Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers

2014-2015 Seminars

Teaching with Eyewitness Testimony from the Great Depression, WWII, and the Early Cold War

In the early twentieth century, oral history emerged as a method for capturing information and perspectives that would have otherwise been lost due to shifting communication technologies, i.e., telephone use supplanting postal communication, and the biases of mainstream society silencing the voices of minorities and dissenters.  In this workshop, the Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) will guide you in how to integrate oral history recollections from their collection into your classroom to bring to life the struggles of the masses affected by the Great Depression, women war workers, World War II veterans, African-Americans fighting for civil rights and many more.  The instructors will provide a tour of online resources at ROHA and elsewhere on the web and lead discussions on how students can benefit from analyzing these primary resources and comparing them with other documents.  This session will focus on American society, culture and history from the 1930s through the 1950s.

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