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  • A Teacher's Ponderings
  • Presentation Resources
    • Multicultural & Multilingual YA Lit
    • Harvey Milk & Briggs Initiative
    • Critical Media Literacy Sessions
    • Planning With Language in Mind
    • Digital Tools to Empower Newcomers
    • Speak Up: Structured Discussion Model
    • Coming Out of the Closet: Undocumented and LGBTQ Youth
    • Eating History Presentation
    • Voices of the SGV
    • Digitizing Social Science Classroom
    • How Can I Plan Effectively?
    • EL Myths and Misconceptions
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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.

Check out my article! 
Lewis, Christopher. 2015. “Eating History: A United States History Project”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 40 (2):91-100.
          https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.40.2.91-100.


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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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