Interpreting Colonial America
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Author | : Kathleen DuVal |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742564649 |
This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.
Author | : James Kirby Martin |
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Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : James Kirby Martin |
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Karin Susan Coddon |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780737710830 |
A collection of primary documents which help chronicle the history of colonial America, providing information on the era's people, politics, activities, and culture.
Author | : E. Jennifer Monaghan |
Publisher | : Studies in Print Culture and t |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781558495814 |
An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners. For the most part, religious motives underlay reading instruction in colonial America, while secular motives led to writing instruction. Monaghan illuminates the history of these activities through a series of deeply researched and readable case studies. An Anglican missionary battles mosquitoes and loneliness to teach the New York Mohawks to write in their own tongue. Puritan fathers model scriptural reading for their children as they struggle with bereavement. Boys in writing schools, preparing for careers in counting houses, wield their quill pens in the difficult task of mastering a "good hand." Benjamin Franklin learns how to compose essays with no teacher but himself. Young orphans in Georgia write precocious letters to their benefactor, George Whitefield, while schools in South Carolina teach enslaved black children to read but never to write. As she tells these stories, Monaghan clears new pathways in the analysis of colonial literacy. She pioneers in exploring the implications of the separation of reading and writing instruction, a topic that still resonates in today's classrooms. Monaghan argues that major improvements occurred in literacy instruction and acquisition after about 1750, visible in rising rates of signature literacy. Spelling books were widely adopted as they key text for teaching young children to read; prosperity, commercialism, and a parental urge for gentility aided writing instruction, benefiting girls in particular. And a gentler vision of childhood arose, portraying children as more malleable than sinful. It promoted and even commercialized a new kind of children's book designed to amuse instead of convert, laying the groundwork for the "reading revolution" of the new republic.
Author | : Louis Booker Wright |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Kristin L. Gallas |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-12-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0759123276 |
Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites aims to move the field forward in its collective conversation about the interpretation of slavery—acknowledging the criticism of the past and acting in the present to develop an inclusive interpretation of slavery. Presenting the history of slavery in a comprehensive and conscientious manner is difficult and requires diligence and compassion—for the history itself, for those telling the story, and for those hearing the stories—but it’s a necessary part of our collective narrative about our past, present, and future. This book features best practices for: Interpreting slavery across the country and for many people. The history of slavery, while traditionally interpreted primarily on southern plantations, is increasingly recognized as relevant at historic sites across the nation. It is also more than just an African-American/European-American story—it is relevant to the history of citizens of Latino, Caribbean, African and indigenous descent, as well. It is also pertinent to those descended from immigrants who arrived after slavery, whose stories are deeply intertwined with the legacy of slavery and its aftermath. Developing support within an institution for the interpretation of slavery. Many institutions are reticent to approach such a potentially volatile subject, so this book examines how proponents at several sites, including Monticello and Mount Vernon, were able to make a strong case to their constituents. Training interpreters in not only a depth of knowledge of the subject but also the confidence to speak on this controversial issue in public and the compassion to handle such a sensitive historical issue. The book will be accessible and of interest for professionals at all levels in the public history field, as well as students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in museum studies and public history programs.
Author | : Peter Charles Hoffer |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421434598 |
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Author | : Karen Melvin |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082635923X |
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America. It demonstrates ways of making sense of the past through approaches that aggregate more than they dissect and suggest more than they conclude. Sidestepping more conventional approaches that divide content by subject, source, or historiographical “turn,” the editors seek to take readers beyond these divisions and deep into the process of historical interpretation. The essays in this volume focus on what questions to ask, what sources can reveal, what stories historians can tell, and how a single source can be interpreted in many ways.
Author | : Jack P. Greene |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813916224 |
This volume bring together 23 essays arranged in three parts: changing historical perspectives; colonial British America; and the American revolution.