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August 31
Pocohantas
INTRODUCTORY
CLASS

Tues., Aug. 31 - What is History? .

What do you associate with the word "history"? How do you see history -- positive, negative, interesting, boring, relevant, beside-the-point, accurate, biased? Free-write for five minutes.

Thurs., Sept. 1 - Computer Lab -- Click here to go to assignment on Virginia Slavery.  Also read the handouts on slavery and indentured servants.

Some Websites of interest 


Sipapu-Cheto Ketl Great Kiva Model | 1492: An Ongoing Voyage | Columbus and the Age of Discovery | Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas | Jamestown Rediscovery | A Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation | Stratford Hall Plantation |  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas | Geography of Slavery in Virginia |

TUESDAY, SEPT. 7

In the text, Who Built America, read pp. 7-8 , 27-33, 40-47, 50-61

There will be a quiz on this material and the Stratford Plantation handouts on slavery and indentured servants (see Sept. 1)

Thurs., Sept. 9 -  Computer Lab -- Click here to go to continuation of the assignment on Virginia Slavery.

Some Websites of Interest  
Africans in America (PBS) | Freedmen and Southern Society | American Slave Narratives:  An Online Anthology | Excerpts from Slave Narratives | Avalon Project: Pre-18th Century Documents (Yale) | Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | Stratford Hall Plantation | The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas | Geography of Slavery in Virginia |
 

TUESDAY, SEPT. 14


In the text, Who Built America, read pp. 65-67 & 94-111.  Read the handouts "White Servitude" and the "Terrible Transformation: 1450-1750"

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, September 14
    

   Thurs., Sept. 16 - College Closed -- No Class.  

Some Websites of Interest 


Avalon Project: Pre-18th Century Documents (Yale) | Gottlieb Mittelberger: On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754) | Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | A Midwife's Tale (PBS) | Martha Ballard's Diary Online | Africans in America (PBS) | Freedmen and Southern Society | American Slave Narratives:  An Online Anthology | Excerpts from Slave Narratives |

 
         

TUESDAY, SEPT. 21
    

In the text, Who Built America, read chapter four.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, September 21.

 

   Thurs., Sept. 23 - Click here for activity on the Declaration of Independence.  

Some Websites of Interest 

Avalon Project: Pre-18th Century Documents (Yale) | Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents (Library of Congress) | U.S. Founding Documents (Emory University) | Constitution Page (National Archives) | "A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the Constitution" (National Archives) | Federalist Papers (Thomas)

 
         

TUESDAY, SEPT. 28
    

In the text, Who Built America, read chapter five.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, September 28.

   Thurs., Sept. 30 - Activity comparing the Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments.   Some Websites of Interest 

Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents (Library of Congress) | U.S. Founding Documents (Emory University) | Side by Side: Declaration of Sentiments/ Declaration of Independence | Excerpts from Slave Narratives
         

TUESDAY, OCT. 5
    

In the text, Who Built America, read chapter six.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, October 5.

 

.Thurs., Oct. 7 - Activity comparing the Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments.

 Some Websites of Interest 

Exploring Amistad | Africans in America (PBS) | Freedmen and Southern Society | American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology | Philadelphia Online: A Celebration of Black History | Excerpts from Slave Narratives | Jesuit Plantation Project (Georgetown) | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina) | African American Mosaic (Library of Congress) | African American Perspectives: Pamphlets 1818-1907 (Library of Congress) | African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg) | Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg) | African American Women: 19th Century Manuscripts (Duke) | Levi Jordan Foundation | Side by Side: Declaration of Sentiments/ Declaration of Independence | Cherokee "Trail of Tears": 1838-1839
         

TUESDAY, OCT. 12
    

In the text, Who Built America, read chapter seven.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, October 12.

 

   Thurs., Oct. 14 - Click here for activity on Plantation and Factory.   Some Websites of Interest   

Cherokee Nation vs State of Georgia, 1831 | Whole Cloth: American Textile Industry (Smithsonian) | African-American Mosaic: Abolition (Library of Congress) | Side by Side: Declaration of Sentiments/ Declaration of Independence | Created Equal: History of the Suffrage Rights Movement | First Women's Rights National Convention, 1850 (Assumption College) | Political Culture & Imagery of American Woman Suffrage; 1848-1998 | Gender in 19th-century U.S. Public Culture (Assumption College) | Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1830-1930 (SUNY/Binghampton) | Daguerretypes Views and Portraits 1839-64 (Library of Congress) | Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (University of Virginia)

 
         

TUESDAY, Oct. 19
    

In the text, Who Built America, read pages 419-447 and 463-470 in Who Built America.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tuesday, October 19.

   Thurs., Oct. 21 - Click here for activity on Plantation and Factory.   Some Websites of Interest 

Cherokee Nation vs State of Georgia, 1831 | Whole Cloth: American Textile Industry (Smithsonian) | African-American Mosaic: Abolition (Library of Congress) | Side by Side: Declaration of Sentiments/ Declaration of Independence | Created Equal: History of the Suffrage Rights Movement | First Women's Rights National Convention, 1850 (Assumption College) | Political Culture & Imagery of American Woman Suffrage; 1848-1998 | Gender in 19th-century U.S. Public Culture (Assumption College) | Women & Social Movements in the U.S., 1830-1930 (SUNY/Binghampton) | Daguerretypes Views and Portraits 1839-64 (Library of Congress) | Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 (University of Virginia)
         

TUESDAY, OCT. 26
    

Midterm

   Thurs., Oct. 28 - Click here for activity on Plantation and Factory and here for the activity on John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid.   Some Websites of Interest 
Whole Cloth: American Textile Industry (Smithsonian) | African-American Mosaic: Abolition (Library of Congress) | John Brown Archive/ Lost Museum
 

 
         

TUESDAY, NOV. 2    

In the text, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution read chapters one & two. and pp. 11-16.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tues., Nov. 2.

   Thurs., Nov. 4 - Click here for the activity on John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid.   Some Websites of Interest 

Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia) | Causes of the Civil War | Secession Era Editorial Project | Crisis at Fort Sumter (Tulane) | John Brown Archive/ Lost Museum

         

TUESDAY, Nov. 9    

In the text, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution read chapters three & four and pp. 57-60.

There will be a quiz on this material in class on Tues., Nov. 9.

 

.Thurs., Nov. 11 - Click here for the activity on John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid.

 Some Websites of Interest 

Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia) | Causes of the Civil War | Secession Era Editorial Project | Crisis at Fort Sumter (Tulane) | John Brown Archive/ Lost Museum | Civil War Photographs (University of Virginia) | Selected Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress) | Images of the Civil War (National Archives) | Freedmen and Southern Society | Civil War Women (Duke) | Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (Library of Congress) | Civil War Resources on the Internet (Rutgers)