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Series
Publisher
Arlington School Board
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
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Description
History by the Block is an educational design seeking to strengthen the teaching of history in the Arlington Public Schools by focusing attention on the role of architecture and the design process in American social history. This unit, "Freedman's Village, Arlington, Virginia, 1863-1900," demonstrates how African Americans lived during and after the Civil War in the first government-provided housing. It includes five lesson plans and was produced...
Pub. Date
1857
Language
English
Description
RG 103 consists of copies and transcripts of materials collected by teacher Roberta (Bobbi) Schildt in the course of her research on Reconstruction and specifically Freedman's Village in Arlington, Virginia. She used the collections of the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Freedom and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, among other repositories. A smaller portion of the collection consists of copies of newspaper...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor...
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