The following announcement is posted by request.

Moderator, NYHIST-L


August 4, 2004

Dear friends and colleagues,

The editorial team and research, editing and technical support
committee at Hofstra University has completed a draft of the New York
and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance curriculum guide. It is
available in hard copy and on-line at
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/alan_j_singer. The curriculum guide
was presented to New York City teachers at the Summer 2004 Gateway to
the City Conference at the Brooklyn Historical Society and was very
well received.

Our teachers committee is currently planning to present material from
the guide at the 2004-2005 annual conferences of the National Council
for the Social Studies, the New York State Council for the Social
Studies, the Long Island Council for the Social Studies, and the
Greater Metropolitan New York Council. In addition, an 80 page version of the curriculum guide is planned for publication as Social Science Docket,
5(2) in September 2005. Social Science Docket is a joint publication
of the New Jersey and New York Councils for the Social Studies.

In 1997, New York State voted to make the European Holocaust, the
Great Irish Famine and Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade part of a Human Rights curriculum. There are many Holocaust curricula developed by school  districts and private organizations and a national award
winning New York State Great Irish Famine curriculum. New York State students and teachers now have a curriculum guide for grades 4 through 12 that addresses the state's leadership role in both the struggle for the
abolition of slavery in the state and nation and the complicity  of
some of its leading merchants and politicians in maintaining the slave
trade and slave system.

In the fall, members of the Hofstra New Teachers Network and other New
York State teachers will begin to use this material in their classrooms.
We invite you to review and promote the curriculum guide and to make
suggestions for changes and improvements.

Sincerely,

Alan Singer, editor
New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance Curriculum Guide
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
128 Hagedorn Hall 119 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549
(W) 516/463-5853 (F) 516/463-6196 (H) 718/768-7239 (E)
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