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  • A Teacher's Ponderings
  • Course Websites
  • Presentation Resources
    • Coming Out of the Closet: Undocumented and LGBTQ Youth
    • Digital Worlds Revealed Through Critical Media Studies
    • Speak Up: Structured Discussion Model
    • Eating History Presentation
    • Voices of the SGV
    • Digitizing Social Science Classroom
    • How Can I Plan Effectively?
    • Planning With Language in Mind
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Beer, Pickles, & Pretzels: How to Eat History

The purpose of this presentation is the share one way of teaching about immigration in the antebellum and Gilded Age through the inclusion of food.  Studying history is heightened when we engage our senses with regards to analyzing primary and secondary sources.  However, one sense often overlooked is the sense of taste.  In this presentation, I hope to share about the inclusion of food and food ephemera to help explain ideas associated with immigrant identity, food culture, and nativism.
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Resources

Immigration Doors Workseet
Tenement Museum (NYC)
NYPL Digital Collections
NYPL What's on the Menu?
The Free Lunch (article) by Rachel Warton
NYC Lunch Hour Online Exhibition
Urbanization and Immigration Lesson Plan (with graphic organizers)
SIGHT Graphic Organizer
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