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Primary Sources,
Readings, References and Secondary Sources

Required Readings
(during workshops only)

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  1. Buildings of Arkansas, by Cyrus A. Sutherland, Pages 218-275

  2. Society of Architectural Historians, Buildings of the United States

  3. Shadows Over Sunnyside, An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1820-1945, by Jeannie M. Whayne, The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville, 1993

  4. Succeeding Against the Odds, by John H. Johnson with Lerone Bennett

  5. Under One Flag, A Year at Rohwer, by Liz Parkhurst and Pam Strickland

  6. A Haunted Love Story, by Mark Spencer

  7. The Architecture of Negro Travelers Greenbook, Establishments by Arkansas Cities, University of Virginia (Green Books (virginia.edu)

  8. African Americans of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County (Arcadia Publishing, 2012), by Jimmy Cunningha

Primary Sources

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John H. Johnson Museum, Arkansas City, Arkansas

www.johnhjohnsonmuseum.org 

 

Japanese American Internment Museum, McGehee, Arkansas

https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/de0294-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=3697e105_0

 

Rohwer Internment Site, Rohwer, Arkansas

History | Rohwer Heritage Site (astate.edu)

 

Jerome Internment Site, Jerome, Arkansas

Jerome Relocation Center - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

 

Taylor House, Tillar, Arkansas

https://www.arkansasheritage.com/docs/default-source/national-registry/dr0100-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=11148227_0

 

Selma Rosenwald School, Selma, Arkansas

 

Allen House, Monticello Historic District, Monticello, Arkansas

dr0075-pdf.pdf (arkansasheritage.com)

 

National Register of Historic Places, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service (nps.gov)

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The Architecture of the Negro Travelers' Greenbook: Green Books (virginia.edu)

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Readings, References and Secondary Sources

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The Arkansas Delta, A Land of Paradox, by William Gatewood, pages 3, 58, 63, 128, 150, 224, 238, 286

 

National Park Service, (2017) The Natural Environment: The Delta and Its Resources. https://www.nps.gov/locations/lowermsdeltaregion/the-natural-environment-the-delta-and-its-resources.htm

 

Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor, 1998, First print; 1999, Reprint; 2017, Revised reprint

 

The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History

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African Americans of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, by Jimmy Cunningham and Donna Cunningham

Get Down the Shovel and the Hoe: Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta, 1900-1955 (arkansasheritage.com). 

 

Preserving The Past With Oral History (preserving-the-past-with-oral-history-rewrite-2016.pdf (arkansasheritage.com)

 

EDSITEmentGuidingQuestionPlaceBasedInquiry_0.pdf, National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov)

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EDSITEment, Primary Sources Analysis Worksheet, National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov)

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https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-rosenwald-schools-progressive-era-philanthropy-in-the-segregated-south-teaching-with-historic-places.htm

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Teaching with Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

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Society of Architectural Historians, About SAH | Society of Architectural Historians

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Farewell to Manzanar (rgandara.com) by Jeanne W. Houston and James D. Houston

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Place-base Learning: Creating Clio Entries, National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov)

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Arkansas State University Heritage Site, https://rohwer.astate.edu

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George Takei, actor and POW at Rohwer Internment prison site, Fulbright College of Arts and Science, Pryor

 

Center for Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas Fayetteville Interviews (uark.edu)

 

Rising Above (uark.edu), Rohwer Interactive V2, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), University of Arkansas Fayetteville

 

Landmarks in Humanities, by Gloria K. Kiero, Third Edition, pages 247, 263 and 447

 

UA Fayetteville, Arkansas Humanities Center https://fulbright.uark.edu/programs/humanities-program/arkansas-stories.php

Silva, Rachel. “Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places: Cotton Gins.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 3, 2011, pp. 320–29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23193408. Accessed 1 Jan. 2023

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-rosenwald-schools-progressive-era-philanthropy-in-the-segregated-south-teaching-with-historic-places.htm

Low, Light and Livable (Architecture), From Modern to Ranch, 1975-1970, A Historical Context Written and Researched by Holly Hope, 2014

Lesson Plan:  Clean Lines, Open Spaces, A view of Midcentury Modern Architecture, K-12 Educators Guide, Arkansas Education Television Network

Lesson Plan: Japanese Americans and the Rohwer Relocation Camp - Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, https://www.arstudies.org and www.butlercenter.org

Lesson Plan:  Under One Flag: A Year at Rohwer - Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, https://www.arstudies.org and www.butlercenter.org

Under one flag: A year at Rohwer - Lesson plans - Arkansas Studies Research Portal (oclc.org)

Lesson Plan:  Camp Nine and Arkansas During WWII – Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, https://www.arstudies.org and www.butlercenter.org

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards (http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards)

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards | ISTE

A National Endowment for the Humanities Program for K-12 Teachers (with content geared towards 6th-12th grades)

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