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Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed Nov 2016

Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …


The Election Of 1896: The Fall Of The People's Party, Olivia Lee-Benton Jan 2016

The Election Of 1896: The Fall Of The People's Party, Olivia Lee-Benton

Curriculum Unit on the Gilded Age in the United States

The People’s Party (also known as the Populist Party) was a short-lived political party that was a result of agrarian unrest. The party was formed on the consolidation of multiple organizations, most notably, Farmer’s Alliance and the Knights of Labor. Formally established in 1892 with the creation of the Omaha Platform , the People’s Party called for numerous resolutions, the free coinage of silver in particular. This would have made it so that both silver and gold would be used as a currency with a ratio of 16:1 (bimetallism), causing more money to be in circulation. In this lesson, we …


The Election Of 1896: The Fall Of The People's Party: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Resources, Olivia Lee-Benton Jan 2016

The Election Of 1896: The Fall Of The People's Party: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Resources, Olivia Lee-Benton

Curriculum Unit on the Gilded Age in the United States

Annotated bibliography to accompany The Election of 1896: the Fall of the People's Party lesson plan.