The first step for a successful lesson plan based on the Hulme Cartoons is to curate a set of cartoons for the students to work with. See the "Searching the Collection" tab for more information on how to do this.
In Person vs. Virtual
If you are able to bring a class in to Special Collections, please reach out to Evan Spencer (evan.spencer@uta.edu) as early as possible with your ideas, and preferably a list of cartoons you would like to work with.
If you are unable to bring a class to Special Collections, you can also download and/or print any cartoons from the Hulme Archive, totally free of charge!
Example Cartoon Set
For Dr. Alma Garza's Latinos and the American Narrative class in 2022 and 2023, we selected Hulme cartoons based on their representations of Latino/a identity. We searched the collection based on subtopics like: immigration, criminalization of immigration, and Latinos in media, politics, education, religion, and family. We identified 75 cartoons that fit this topical area. Since this was an in-person activity, the Public Services Archivist then worked to pull and sleeve each cartoon for use in the class session.
For this activity, we chose to set up the cartoons on four tables, split up into decades.
Step One:
Step Two:
After their class visit, students continued to work on their cartoon-based research by further connecting the cartoon to class discussions and broader conversations around Latino representation in Hulme's Cartoons.
For their final project in the class, students had to present their findings... along with a political cartoon of their OWN design!
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