Where is the US in your world history classroom? Let’s dig into these narratives, discuss and disrupt them. Speaker: Erin Bronstein, Assistant Professor of Social Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn

In this article, the author offers teaching resources and insights from a two-week unit taught with in an eighth grade U.S. history class that deconstructed the boundaries between public and private by investigating the evolution of American household labor and tools.

The exploration of the trajectory of Shirley Chisholm’s political life can be a springboard into a classroom lesson on suffrage that connects issues of race, class, and gender.