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2009-2010 Seminars and Field Trips Schedule

17 October 2009, Saturday
Orientation

5 December Saturday
Seminar: Creating the New Nation: The American Revolution
Presenter: Richard Shiels

12 January 2010, Tuesday
Seminar: Constitutions and the Creation of the New Nation
Presenter: Les Benedict

23 February, Tuesday
Seminar: The Growth of the Nation: Westward Migration
Presenter: Margaret Sumner

13 March, Saturday
Seminar: The Growth of the Nation: Technological Development
Presenter: Ted Dahlstrand

17 April, Saturday
Fieldtrip: Growing the Nation
Location: Campus Martius Museum of the Northwest Territory, Marietta, Ohio

Depart on bus from Tri-County ESC at 8:30 AM. Return: 3:30 PM

12 May, Wednesday
Fieldtrip: Growing the Nation
Location: Hale Farm and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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Narratives of Slavery: Analyzing Primary Sources

In this 5 minute video teachinghistory.org  (you can also read a transcript), historian Richard Follett analyzes two narratives of slavery: an investigative report written by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1853 for the New York Times and Solomon Northrup's book Twelve Years A Slave. He discusses each document separately and then compares their very different perspectives on slavery in Louisiana's sugar growing parishes. Follett models several historical thinking skills, including: close reading;attention to key source information, including who wrote each account, when, and for what purpose; and exploring how to make sense of multiple perspectives and conflicting accounts. Note that the Primary Source Activity Assignment related to the The Slave Trade seminar is on organized on the theme, Point of View.
 

 

 
 

 

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