Multivocal Learning: Albany's History for Albany's Students

FAIN: ZED-284249-22

Historic Cherry Hill (Albany, NY 12202-1111)
Shawna Reilly (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2025)

Staff salaries at the applicant organization and salaries at partner organizations for the development of in-person and online collaborative school programs that focus on African American history in the  Albany, New York, region. 

In anticipation of the return of onsite visitation and in-person programming, pending new pandemic guidelines, Historic Cherry Hill now proposes to partner with the Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC), housed at the Stephen and Harriet Myers residence and the Albany County Historical Association at Ten Broeck Mansion (TB) to: (1) develop thematically-linked programs with concrete connections to the NYS curriculum. Together, the field trips will to build a stronger understanding of historical issues and the diversity of voices and opinions that have made and are making history in the United States. Together, the field trips will to build a stronger understanding of historical issues and the diversity of voices and opinions that have made and are making history in the United States. In support of the project, we will (2) work with Teaching the Hudson Valley to build a site to promote these programs and provide access to pre- and post-visit materials teachers can utilize.

Associated Products

Mining the Untold Stories (Web Resource)
Title: Mining the Untold Stories
Author: Shawna Reilly
Author: Meghan Willis
Author: Jessica Serfilippi
Author: Kelly Bartlett
Author: Katrina Manzari
Abstract: Historic Cherry Hill created a partnership project with Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site and The Stephen & Harriet Myers Residence of the Underground Railroad Education Center to create thematically linked field trips. Together, the programs build a stronger understanding of New York State history and the diverse voices in our historic communities. With concrete connections to the New York State curricula, the new programs allow upper elementary and middle school classrooms to travel to multiple historic sites in the city of Albany on the same day, saving schools’ resources and creating rich, collaborative, hands-on educational experiences. Each historic site also created online materials and digitized documents and other artifacts to support classroom instruction. Historic Cherry Hill partnered with Consider the Source (CTS) New York (a collaborative effort between the New York State Archives and Archives Partnership Trust); CTS hosts the materials on their website, bringing primary source materials to New York State educators.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://considerthesourceny.org/featured-collections/mining-untold-stories
Primary URL Description: One of Consider the Source's "Featured Collections," the "Mining the Untold Stories" webpage contains links to pre- and post- visit materials, "Teacher Resources," as well as digitized documents and artifacts related to each site.

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