Teach the Sisterhood
A Recreation of the Woman’s Literary Department from the New Orleans 1884 World’s Fair.
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Educational Resources
This Beautiful Sisterhood Project provides readings, educational resources, and workshops to support educators in integrating the Beautiful Sisterhood collection into their classrooms. This curriculum demonstrates strategies for utilizing the resources within our collection, including the digital archive and exhibits, and methods for contextualizing the 1884 World’s Fair within the context of the following themes: meaning of “woman” and 19th-century “womanhood”, gender, race, region/south, and sectionalism. Educational resources may come in the form of syllabi, units/modules, assignments, readings, multimedia, and/or teaching debriefs.
Take a Deep Dive Into Research
Bibliography About the Fair
Click on the dropdowns to explore a bibliography of research about the Woman’s Literary Department and the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair.
Educational Resource Library & Archive
Explore our selection of syllabi, modules, assignments, and teaching debriefs about the Woman’s Literary Department and the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair. Many of these assignments provide opportunities for students to publish their work as part of the online Beautiful Sisterhood Exhibit.
We suggest completing these lessons in the order they appear as they build upon each other, allowing students to scaffold their learning of the material. These lessons may be completed in a sequence or if time is limited, as separate deliverables.
Explore This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books project as map data during the 1884 World’s Fair.
Create pieces of scholarship, drawn from this research that can be published as part of the Beautiful Sisterhood Exhibit.
Students will create an exhibit to be published as part of the This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books.
Explore
Original Research
Through Articles and Exhibits about the 1884 World’s Fair
Featured Exhibit
Black Women and the 1884 World’s Fair
Drawing from our study of Black women’s literature, Black literary history, and recovery scholarship, we have attempted to recover an untold part of the story of the Woman’s Department at the 1884 New Orleans World Fair and the “beautiful sisterhood of books” it included.
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Contribute Educational Resources and Content
We educational resources for publication that demonstrate strategies for utilizing the resources within our collection. Educational resources may come in the form of syllabi, units/modules, assignments, readings, multimedia, and/or teaching debriefs. Selected materials will be peer-reviewed and then featured as an educational resource within the digital archive, and assignment authors will also be listed as contributors to the Beautiful Sisterhood collection. To propose an educational resource for consideration by the editors, please submit a 100-word proposal and short bio via this application.
