W 1/5

Loewen, Intro: Something Has Gone Very Wrong and ch. 1 – Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making (1 LTD guide)

James Loewen's Univ. of Vermont website - read about the book and take the American History Quiz.

F 1/7

The class will meet in the Bldg. 98-C5-9 computer lab for help with Internet use and assignments. Note change - office hours will be in 94-333 from 9:30 - 10:50 AM.

M 1/10

Loewen, ch. 2 – 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus

1492: An Ongoing Voyage - Exhibit examines the first sustained contacts between American people & European explorers, conquerors & settlers from 1492-1600.

Medieval Sourcebook: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal - from the journal of Columbus in his voyage of 1492.

The Columbus Navigation Homepage - website explores "the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus."

The Columbus Letter - announcing the success of his voyage to the "islands of the India sea." (1494)

W 1/12

Loewen, ch. 3: The Truth about the First Thanksgiving

MayflowerHistory.com - information about the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, the history of Thanksgiving, with links to full-text primary sources.

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project - court records, will, biographies, images, and more.

Beyond the Pilgrim Story - primary source documents, artifacts, and historical information from the Pilgrim Hall Museum.

Indians of North America - The Native American Experience, 1600-1750 - primary source illustrations from the time.

The Illustrating Traveler - Illustrated traveler's narratives and original art by travelers in the U.S. and Caribbean from 1760-1895.

F 1/14

Loewen, ch. 5 – “Gone with the Wind”: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks

The African-American Mosaic - Extensive Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

Chronology On The History Of Slavery And Racism - 1619-1789, 1790-1829, 1830 - the end

The Persistence of Spirit: African-American Experience in Arkansas - interpretive study of the black experience in Arkansas. Examine the Historical Narrative and Photo Scrapbook. (Note: photos enlarge when "clicked".)

M 1/17

Campus Closed
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Observed

The Meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

W 1/19

Loewen, ch. 6 – John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Antiracism in American History Textbooks

"The New Negro" - Early 1960s NBC TV Open Mind Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King and Judge J. Waites Waring from The Internet Archives. (28 minutes)

A House Divided - America in the Age of Lincoln - examines Lincoln and his times, slavery, sectionalism, and the "destructive power of the Civil War."

History Guide from the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park - site of John Brown's attack on slavery.

John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow - links to a variety of primary sources.

People & Events - John Brown (1800 - 1859) - resources from PBS's Africans in America with some primary source documents.

F 1/21

Hollitz, ch. 1 – Historians and Textbooks: The “Story” of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War - PBS American Experience website with TV program (viewable) and related primary and secondary sources.

Valley of the Shadows, Two Communities in the American Civil War - digital archive of life in one Augusta County Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania from 1859 through 1870.

African-American Pamphlets, 1880-1920:  Attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War: the arts, ethnicity, religion, politics, war.

M 1/24

Woman’s Suffrage –a biographical perspective

Please read the web assignment about Victoria C. Woodhull and complete an LTD Guide for it.

W 1/26

Hollitz, ch. 2 – Using Primary Sources: Industrialization and the Condition of Labor

Working Women, 1870-1930 - extensive collection of digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources about women's role in the economy.

The Labor Project - documentary history of labor in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Collections of documents, photographs, personnel papers, and ephemera.

How the Other Half Lives: Hypertext of the 1890 Jacob Riis study of New York City tenement life, with many of the original photographs; see the table of contents for labor-related chapters.

Joe Hill: The Man Behind the Martyr - "the story of Joe Hill, a labor organizer executed by the state of Utah in 1915." Has biographical information and timeline; information on labor and the labor movement of the early twentieth century.

F 1/28

Loewen, ch. 7 – The Land of Opportunity

People Like Us: Social Class in America - companion site to PBS documentary.

Explorations in Social Inequality - overview of social inequality.

Social Class and Poverty: Allyn & Bacon links on class and poverty, homelessness, and hunger. Examine those you find of interest related to Loewen's chapter.

Wealth and Poverty: Hyper-text reading unit with articles about historic and contemporary perspectives on wealth and poverty, who's really on welfare, taxes and government spending.

M 1/31

Hollitz, ch. 3 – Evaluating Primary Sources: “Saving” the Indians in the late 19th Century

The Trail of Tears - information about Indian removal in the early 19th-century South.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School - website about the students who were educated in this Cumberland County school with a mission to "shape identity".

The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes - 7 parts (pages) including scholars' debate, illustrated, from the National Humanities Center.

The Avalon Project - 19th century Native American documents.

Buffalo Tales: The Near-Extermination of the
American Bison, including scholars debate, illusttrated, with related online resources from the National Humanities Center.

Domestic Architecture in the Comanche Village on Medicine Creek, Indian Territory - William S. Soule's series of photographs of a Comanche village on Medicine Creek, Indian Territory, in the winter of 1872 - 1873.