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Midnight-blue scratchboard comic contrasts a Virginia lawbook marked 1662 inherited status with a Black servant presenting a freedom petition marked 1675.

Transition to Racial Slavery: Law, Labor and Inherited Status

Study the transition to racial slavery through Virginia’s status laws, baptism statute and a freedom petition, with sources and CLEP practice.

Colored-pencil comic shows a student comparing a 1623 servant letter with a 1676 rebel declaration, asking who is missing beside a drawing labeled Native land and security.

Indentured Servitude and Bacon’s Rebellion: Causes and Sources

Study indentured servitude and Bacon’s Rebellion through Frethorne’s letter, a rebel declaration, source limits and CLEP U.S. History I practice.

Reed-pen and gouache foldout-map comic shows established Powhatan villages and corn trade beside an English fort, with tobacco fields and survey tools representing settlement expansion.

Powhatan Relations and Warfare: Trade, Land and the Wars

Wax-crayon comic uses a giant tobacco leaf as a merchant ships sail, with export cargo above and an anchor labeled land and labor below.

Jamestown, Tobacco and the Virginia Company: Growth and Failure

Botanical colored-pencil comic contrasts American maize, potatoes and tomatoes with Old World wheat and livestock, above a charcoal scene representing disease, displacement and coerced labor.

Columbian Exchange: Crops, Disease and Unequal Consequences

Brush-pen and gouache comic pairs an Indigenous woman guiding a French trader along a river with an Indigenous trading partner negotiating goods at a Dutch wharf.

French and Dutch Colonization: Trade, Alliances and Power

Pastel-and-charcoal comic uses four interlocking puzzle pieces to represent Indigenous alliances, disease, political divisions and weapons, above a tribute ledger, silver ingot and mission.

Spanish Conquest and Colonial Systems: Power and Resistance

Hand-drawn comic of Indigenous communities growing maize, beans and squash, guiding irrigation water in the Southwest, and harvesting Pacific Northwest salmon.

Environment, Agriculture and Regional Adaptation: Native Choices

Hand-drawn comic of a student exploring diverse Indigenous North American towns, councils, shell and copper trade, and seasonal mobility before 1500.

Indigenous Societies before 1500: Regional Diversity and Power

Hand-drawn comic with a pop-up folder showing immigration documents, a multigenerational family, work and care, and public discussion beside a courthouse.

Citizenship and Immigration: Family, Rights and U.S. History

Hand-drawn chalk comic linking a microchip to university research, changing office and technical work, and students using different digital learning tools.

Digital Revolution: Education and the Changing Workplace

Hand-drawn pencil comic of Barack Obama examining an ACA 2010 policy workshop with insurance rules, subsidies, Medicaid, Congress, courts, and a family at a clinic.

Obama and the Affordable Care Act: Policy and Partisanship

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