Learn how to use use the arts to help students develop historical thinking skills, deepen digital literacy, and engage with diverse perspectives in the Cultural Products as Historical Narrative webinar. Participants will leave with practical tools, curated resource lists, and examples of interdisciplinary lessons that connect students to the past through cultural expression — empowering them to create, reflect, and share their own narratives rooted in primary source research. This will be available on demand soon.
Cultural Products as Historical Narrative is the second of three sessions in the Stories That Connect: Using Film and Primary Sources to Build Belonging professional development webinar series. View all sessions.
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
Participants will be introduced to Library of Congress collections , film and multimedia resources and visual arts. These examples illustrate how cultural products offer valuable insight into lived experiences, resistance movements, and collective memory.
To take full advantage of this learning and tool-building opportunity, we recommend participating in all three webinar sessions.
At the end of the three-part webinar series, educator participants of any of the workshops will receive a Project-Based Learning Toolkit designed and developed over the course of the webinar series. Informed by the strategies and themes explored in each webinar, the toolkit will include practical insights, customizable templates, sample student project ideas, curated Library of Congress resources, and ready-to-use classroom strategies. It will be designed to strengthen learners’ research skills, particularly their ability to navigate archival collections, critically evaluate primary sources, and engage thoughtfully with multimedia cultural products.
Alicia Reese began her career as an educator in 2009 after graduating from the University of Bridgeport with an M.S. in Education, concentration in Music. She became the Director of Performing & Visual Arts after attaining amy sixth year degree in Educational Leadership and 092 certification at Sacred Heart University. Currently, she oversees strategic partnerships, education, and social impact initiatives for Silkroad.
Mazz Swift
Mazz Swift is a violinist, vox, and freestyle composition artist. In addition to Silkroad Ensemble, Mazz Swift has performed with William Parker, Butch Morris, Jason Lindner, James “Blood” Ulmer, Vernon Reid, Valerie June, Whitney Houston, DJ Logic, Kanye West, D’Angel, and others.
Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world.
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