01: Colonization

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The history of Philip's war, commonly called the great Indian war, of 1675 and 1676. Also, of the French and Indian wars at the eastward, in 1689, 1690, 1692, 1696, and 1704 : Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet A

Techers using the SHEG materials regarding King Philip's War should know that the engraving from those materials is drawn from this book. A contemporary account of the war.

The Pocahontas Archive - Introduction

From Lehigh University's 'History on Trial' series This collection of essays, images and primary source documents related to Pocahontas. The "History" section is a comprehensive list of all mentions of her in contemporary primary source documents

The Pocahontas Archive - Introduction

The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology | Helpful Handout Educator Resource

How do we talk about Native Americans? or are you talking about "American Indians"? This is a valuable resource for teachers to take a quick look at before teaching in September

The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology | Helpful Handout Educator Resource

Mapping the Great Awakening – Where did the Great Awakening Happen? (and why should we care?)

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 | Nature - Physical evidence of Vikings in North America

and what are you teaching?

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 | Nature - Physical evidence of Vikings in North America

1782: - Letters From an American Farmer : Letter III - What Is An American - St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782

Students would have a little trouble with the language, though much less than they would with the federalist papers. Anyone looking for insight into the daily life of most colonists would do well by reading this primary source

1782: - Letters From an American Farmer : Letter III - What Is An American - St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782

A tour of America by Patrick M'Robert in the years 1774 & 1775.

47 pages book about the colonies written in 1774. Insight into roads, methods of travel, dress, habits and culture of the people Patrick met while traveling through New York and northern colonies. Tables of currency rates, roads and prices for tranports

A tour of America by Patrick M'Robert in the years 1774 & 1775.

The Way We Were - Book Review of Alan Taylor's "American Colonies"

This should be a reading for students

The Way We Were - Book Review of Alan Taylor's "American Colonies"

The Avalon Project : The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina : March 1, 1669

Look at clauses 109, 110 and 111 - ask students what they think the people who wrote this thought of of "freedom" - what does it mean to them?

The Avalon Project : The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina : March 1, 1669

The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before : Code Switch : NPR

This combines a story of one person making a difference with an illustration of the lack of knowledge about indigenous cultures that continues today

The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before : Code Switch : 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

Disney+ Advisory - Stories Matter | The Walt Disney Company

Teachers using Disney's Pocahontas movie might want to note this effort by the Disney company to deal with it characterizations of people in the past

Disney+ Advisory - Stories Matter | The Walt Disney Company

Climate change at Jamestown - Current

Yes, it's a thing - you should tell your students about it

Climate change at Jamestown - Current

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

329 years later, last Salem 'witch' who wasn't is pardoned | AP News

Yes, the past students study can be changed in the present. Look at what this teacher and her students accomplished

329 years later, last Salem 'witch' who wasn't is pardoned | AP News

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

Selected NJ laws relating to slavery

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

El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Of all of the primary documents we share with students the Requerimiento shows the sheer malovency of the Spanish in the Americas - essentially it says, do this or we will kill your wives and children and it will be your fault, not ours.

El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513) – Encyclopedia Virginia

The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told. - nj.com

Slavery in New Jersey

The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told. - nj.com

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

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

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

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

A brief history of the Pequot war - John Mason, John Underhill

These are contemporary accounts written by the perpetrators of the Mystic Massacre. Many contemporary historians and international jurists have judged the Pequot War an act of genocide.

A brief history of the Pequot war - John Mason, John Underhill

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

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

Isabel de Olvera - free black woman in what would become northern New Mexico

Race - National Human Genome Research Institute

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