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1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
The colony of Massachusetts invited immigrants fleeing persecution and insisted on the rule of law - 130 years before the Revolution. And - there was a death penalty for worshiping any other god, but the lord god.
1641: Massachusetts Body of Liberties | Online Library of Liberty
Puritan Dissenters: Anne Hutchinson - YouTube
Puritan Dissenters: Anne Hutchinson - YouTube
1 minute video explains Anne Hutchinson in a clear, straightforward manner. This shows that information can be delivered in a clear, concise manner at a speed much easier to understand then the breakneck speed of Crash Course
Puritan Dissenters: Anne Hutchinson - YouTube
King James I, His Counterblast to Tobacco, 1604 · Document Bank of Virginia
King James I, His Counterblast to Tobacco, 1604 · Document Bank of Virginia
Telling students that tobacco "saved" the economy of the new Virginia colony and nothing else misses the chance to tell them of the cultural impact of smoking on Europe. Or better yet, that smoking was seen as unhealthy from the start
King James I, His Counterblast to Tobacco, 1604 · Document Bank of Virginia
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
"New Jersey, the Garden State, is known for its produce, but not for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. In this two-part documentary, descendants and historians tell their stories and why it was the last northern state to end the institution of slavery."
Prevalence of Slavery in New Jersey | Truehart Productions
History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni; 1565
History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni; 1565
De las Casas wasn't the only person to write a first-hand account of the conquest of native populations. This book was written by a Milanese merchant was republished in eleven editions between 1565 and 1727 and its popularity contributed to an intense negative perception of Spain.
History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni; 1565
Royal African Company Networks – Current Research in Digital History
Royal African Company Networks – Current Research in Digital History
Maps and informational graphics based on a collection of over 3,000 individual letters that the RAC sent from one place to another on the West African coast reveals more than the taught narrative canon ever can. By using computational text analysis combined with insights from GIS, this challenges some basic assumptions about the way the English monopoly operated on the African coast
Royal African Company Networks – Current Research in Digital History
Pamunkey Indian Tribe | Pamunkey Indian Tribe
Pamunkey Indian Tribe | Pamunkey Indian Tribe
This is the site of the tribe of Pocahontas and her father Powhatan. It was not formally recognized by the United States government until 2015
Pamunkey Indian Tribe | Pamunkey Indian Tribe
Mapping FLUENCY for Early American History - YouTube
Mapping FLUENCY for Early American History - YouTube
It should only take a minute for teachers to click through this 24-minute video and get the idea of this approach - and it is a wonderful idea. Instead of worrying about accuracy of shape and size, focus on information and location. Great way to look at early American history.
Mapping FLUENCY for Early American History - YouTube
The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 : Byrd, William, 1674-1744 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 : Byrd, William, 1674-1744 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

William Byrd II ranks as the most well-known gentlemen-planter of pre-Revolutionary America You can compare this to the stuff the NHC took out of the diary for their lesson http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text5/williambyrddiary.pdf?scrlybrkr=c15ed405

The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 : Byrd, William, 1674-1744 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Geographic Names Information System - Replacing "Squaw" Names
Geographic Names Information System - Replacing "Squaw" Names
Teachers referencing Native history at any point in the timeline from European contact through the 21st century can reference this change by the United States Department of the Interior. This is a database of locations renamed in order to remove derogatory references to Native American women
Geographic Names Information System - Replacing "Squaw" Names
Milking sacred cows: Christy Coleman at TEDxGraceStreet - YouTube
Milking sacred cows: Christy Coleman at TEDxGraceStreet - YouTube
Christy Coleman was the first president of the merged White House of the Confederacy and Civil War Museum, her path to history scholarship is interesting - as is her perspective on the depiction of slavery at Colonial Williamsburg, which she did as a teenager and as a college intern. This is a view of how history is told through public places
Milking sacred cows: Christy Coleman at TEDxGraceStreet - YouTube
Race and Ethnicity Coding Guidelines - NJ Dept of Senior Services
Race and Ethnicity Coding Guidelines - NJ Dept of Senior Services
Although teachers and students discuss race and ethnicity in an academic context, many public and private organizations use ethnic distinctions and definitions as part of their work. This guide can be used to supplement a lesson on race and ethnicity - what are the classifications they use? What are the recommendations they have for determining race and ethnicity. It is important to note that race and ethnicity are not scientific - they are human conventions
Race and Ethnicity Coding Guidelines - NJ Dept of Senior Services
An American Secret | Hidden Brain : NPR
An American Secret | Hidden Brain : NPR
Hidden Brain podcast episode that explores the "open secret": that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World until the year 1900, there were as many as five million Native people enslaved in America. We'll talk about this history, and the psychological reasons it was left unexamined for so long.
An American Secret | Hidden Brain : NPR