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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for many of the 30+ essays and creative works that compose "The 1857 Project."

Christina Sneed
Guest Contributor

This lesson plan is designed to introduce William Freivogel’s essay, and The 1857 Project as a whole, through discussion questions and guided reading.

Christina Sneed
Guest Contributor

These activities model ways that students can apply writing, research, discussion, and visual arts skills to explorations of essays written by students for The 1857 Project.

Christina Sneed
Guest Contributor

Josie Mottl is a senior and one of the co-editors-in-chief for The Kirkwood Call, the student newspaper at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri. Mottl plans to attend the University of Missouri...

Kiley Huang is a senior at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri. She is the editor-in-chief of the school's student newspaper, The Kirkwood Call, vice president of the START Club and KH Choirs...

Pauline Kim is a Daniel Noyes Kirby professor of law at Washington University's School of Law. Kim is the co-author of WorkLaw: Cases and Materials, one of the leading textbooks on employment law. Kim...

Jake Rosenfeld is a Weidenbaum Center resident fellow and the department chair of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Rosenfeld is the author of You're Paid What You're Worth and Other...

Garrett Yalch is a philosophy student at Washington University in St. Louis. He has previously worked on stories for The Frontier about climate change, Oklahoma's medical marijuana industry, and the...

Misha Milan Marshall is currently a registered medical assistant at Affinia Healthcare where she loves caring for all her pediatric patients, from newborns to adolescents. Marshall has worked in...

Uma Paithankar is a rising junior at Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in genomics and computational biology with a minor in computer science. On campus, she is a founder and co-president...

Leanne Tippett Mosby is pursuing a master's in journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia. She came to the university after a 22-year career with the Missouri Department...