Topics to Explore with Collections Materials
Apply reading assignments and classroom discussions to historical objects
COVID-19 / Health, Medicine, Disease
From disease prevention guides and herbal medicine recipes to student letters home during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu quarantine, holdings in Special Collections can help students understand their experiences of COVID-19 in a broader historical context.
Orientalism
From Lockwood de Forest's Indian for the Deanery to of Egypt and Turkey by Pascal Sébah made for a Western audience, our collections can help students recognize Edward Said's interdisciplinary concept.
From of her leadership in women's suffrage to a comprehensive portfolio representing the activist art of the Guerrilla Girls, Special Collections can help students understand a history of feminism in the United States.
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