03: The New Nation

03: The New Nation

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From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Willing Bingham, 11 May 1788
From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Willing Bingham, 11 May 1788
Jefferson's "Amazons and Angels" letter in which he describes how women in America "do not wrinkle their foreheads with politics" they instead care for their husbands and "domestic happiness"
From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Willing Bingham, 11 May 1788
U. S. Electoral College, Official - What is the Electoral College?
U. S. Electoral College, Official - What is the Electoral College?
This National Archives site provides an article and four-minute video to describe the nuts and bolts process by which the Electoral College operates. Although there are other more effective articles to provide students, the video shows the manner in which the Electoral votes are official counted in Congress. Having students watch that process will reinforce their understanding of it.
U. S. Electoral College, Official - What is the Electoral College?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
One page thumbnail sketch of the slave trade. Any teacher that touches on the slave trade should invest the quick minute or two it would take to review these notes. Important points and statistics
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Election Is in the House: 1824: The Candidates and the Issues | EDSITEment
The Election Is in the House: 1824: The Candidates and the Issues | EDSITEment
Four crucial elements of our election system were highlighted in the election of 1824: the nomination of candidates, the popular election of electors, the Electoral College, and the election of the president in the House when no candidate receives a majority in the Electoral College.
The Election Is in the House: 1824: The Candidates and the Issues | EDSITEment
Ancestry Map 2000 census
Ancestry Map 2000 census
This map shows how easy it is to recognize the legacy of slavery, even in the year 2000. Look at the counties that show the highest population of African Americans more than 300 years after the first slave ships arrived in the Americans
Ancestry Map 2000 census
Revolution and Early America | Stanford History Education Group
Revolution and Early America | Stanford History Education Group
he Revolution and Early America Unit covers the standard eighteenth century topics that would appear in any textbook. These lessons, however, will push students to dig deeper as they read the documents and develop historical arguments about topics ranging from the Great Awakening (why was George Whitefield so popular?) to the Stamp Act (why were Colonists upset about the Stamp Act?) to the Constitution (why did the Founding Fathers keep slavery in the Constitution?). Each lesson offers primary documents that promote conflicting interpretations. The unit will introduce students to historiography, as they contrast Bernard Bailyn's interpretaton of the Declaration of Independence to Howard Zinn's account. These lessons will emphasize the historical reading skills students will practice all year.
Revolution and Early America | Stanford History Education Group
To Thomas Jefferson from John Tyler, 16 May 1782
To Thomas Jefferson from John Tyler, 16 May 1782
Not only does this letter from Virginia's Speaker of the House rejecting Thomas Jefferson's resignation from the House of Burgess reveal the ruling aristocracy's fear of the "venal and ignorant" of society, it shows that Jefferson had no choice but to serve in the House. Ask students - does this mean that the aristocracy was so afraid of "the people" that it would arrest its own for not serving?
To Thomas Jefferson from John Tyler, 16 May 1782
The Rules of Civility · George Washington's Mount Vernon
The Rules of Civility · George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington copied 110 Rules of Behavior when he was about 16 years old. This version translated by the Mount Vernon Society can be shared with students to think about the type of society Washington lived in and how it is similar to and different than the society students live in.
The Rules of Civility · George Washington's Mount Vernon
The American Remembrancer (Book)
The American Remembrancer (Book)
Letters, speeches, petitions, local resolutions from the Revolutionary period through the early national. These are the sort of primary source documents that would only be available in research libraries are now all online and searchable. Teachers can have students through search words into these books and do some primary source research on their own.
The American Remembrancer (Book)
Unruly Americans in the Revolution | AP US History Study Guide from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Unruly Americans in the Revolution | AP US History Study Guide from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Woody Holton article regarding the efforts to incorporate the experience of "common" people in the history of the United States. Teachers and advanced students should read this to better understand how history of these periods is changing as a result of these efforts. The easy access to searchable databases of primary source documents will make this process easier and easier for historians trying to get a better understanding fo the past. This could be used as instructional resources in that reading it will give background to the some events of the Revolution and the early US
Unruly Americans in the Revolution | AP US History Study Guide from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815
This is the famous "the Revolution was in the minds" letter of John Adams, explaining to Jefferson in 1815 that he thought the Revolution was effected before the first drop of blood was shed at Lexington. Notice also that Adams laments that their mail is being read and printed for the public - "These gentry will print whatever will sell"
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815
Happy Birthday, Peggy: A Panel Discussion with Laura Elliott and Jessie Serfilippi - YouTube
Happy Birthday, Peggy: A Panel Discussion with Laura Elliott and Jessie Serfilippi - YouTube
Listening to these three women talk about the Schuyler sisters that dominate the Hamilton musical shows teachers and students how some writers historians and develop a type of relationship with people of the past that goes far beyond the taught narrative canon of high school history.
Happy Birthday, Peggy: A Panel Discussion with Laura Elliott and Jessie Serfilippi - YouTube
Madison Hemings Interview — Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
Madison Hemings Interview — Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
This is the text of the statement of Madison Hemmings, the son of Thomas Jefferson and Sarah Hemmings. It first appeared in a newspapers in 1873, but awareness of it faded, most historians were not aware of its existence until after the 1950s
Madison Hemings Interview — Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia
Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia
This is bookmarked to bring attention to the fact that Thomas Jefferson's wikipedia page does not list the children he had with Sally Hemmings, nor does it acknowledge straightforwardly that they are in fact, his. They are referred to (at the time of this bookmarking (Sept '21) as "Sally Hemmingses" children
Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia
Interview with Bancroft Winner Melvin Patrick Ely | History News Network
Interview with Bancroft Winner Melvin Patrick Ely | History News Network
THis is a fascinating introduction into what could be a powerful instructional episode in history as it is practiced. Ely studied "Israel Hill" a community of freed slaves in Virginia in the 1790s. That snippet alone is intrigue enough to follow this link
Interview with Bancroft Winner Melvin Patrick Ely | History News Network
The Jefferson - Hemings Controversy - About -
The Jefferson - Hemings Controversy - About -
From Lehigh University's 'History on Trial' series, this is a vast collection of essays and primary sources related to Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
The Jefferson - Hemings Controversy - About -
Rare Object of the Month: Unrequited Love for the Ages James Madison's hair at the Library of Congress Blog
Rare Object of the Month: Unrequited Love for the Ages James Madison's hair at the Library of Congress Blog
Students and teachers might thing the weirdest thing about this article is that Library of Congress has a lock of James Madison's hair. He gave a lock of his hair and a miniature portrait of himself to a women he was engaged with, but never married. But the most surprising information here is purposefully omitted by the Library of Congress - go ahead and highlight and search Kitty Floyd's name
Rare Object of the Month: Unrequited Love for the Ages James Madison's hair at the Library of Congress Blog
From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 October 1805
From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 October 1805
Not only does John Adams say that Tom Paine was the son of a Wild Boar and a Bitch Wolf, but he says that the Age of Reason is a dumb title for the time he was living through. Still, that is the title that historians have used for that time.
From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 October 1805