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U.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF RIGHTS The Rhetoric and Reality of Rights. In December 1985, while signing a bill to designate the week Human Rights Week in the United States, Ronald Reagan declared that the day was to “take stock, to survey the globe with an eye not so much towards words, as to actual deeds, to measure the world against the noble assertions of the Universal “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF RIGHTS The Rhetoric and Reality of Rights. In December 1985, while signing a bill to designate the week Human Rights Week in the United States, Ronald Reagan declared that the day was to “take stock, to survey the globe with an eye not so much towards words, as to actual deeds, to measure the world against the noble assertions of the Universal “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andTHE SHOW MUST GO ON
The Show Must Go On: American Culture in Times of Crisis. This is a free crowdsourced American history curriculum developed by American scholars to help reduce the workload of millions of teachers and professors on the frontlines of public education during the unprecedented #Covid19 shutdowns and university evacuations. THE "MASSACRE" AND THE AFTERMATH 6:00 A.M., SEPTEMBER 28, 1901 BALANGIGA, SAMAR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The bugler of Company C, Ninth Infantry, sounded the call for breakfast. American soldiers, unarmed, made their way to the mess hall. Outside, the Filipino Chief of Police, Valeriano Abanador, prepared Filipino prisoners for a day of forced labor. Suddenly, Abanador seized Private Adolph Gamlin’s rifle MORE EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great New England transcendental thinker, noted, “The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons or opinions or possessions.” 4 New nineteenth century definitions of gentility were closely compatible with transcendental, egalitarian thought. ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. During World War II, the United States incarcerated nearly all of its Japanese American residents. Japanese Americans were concentrated on the West Coast in makeshift internment camps. Edward J. Ennis, the director of the United States Justice Department’s Alien Enemy Control Unit in 1943 explained thatTHE SOUL OF FOOD
The Soul of Food. While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing (and profitable) draw for tourism in the South. Southern food has inspired trails, websites, songs, books, television shows, and LEVITTOWN - US HISTORY SCENE Levitt & Sons Nassau County, Long Island In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veteransreturned MORE
"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “ReubenNEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION: ANIMALS OF THE CIVIL WAR The Civil War, however, was also the first war of “industrialized animal power,” the greatest single event demanding the massive mobilization of animals and their ability to perform work in the nineteenth century. Dogs, oxen, the odd camel and eagle, and hundreds of thousands of horses and mules participated in the war as agents ofwork
GENDER AND RACE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY DEBATES Gender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates. In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a ManU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF RIGHTS The Rhetoric and Reality of Rights. In December 1985, while signing a bill to designate the week Human Rights Week in the United States, Ronald Reagan declared that the day was to “take stock, to survey the globe with an eye not so much towards words, as to actual deeds, to measure the world against the noble assertions of the Universal “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the THE RHETORIC AND REALITY OF RIGHTS The Rhetoric and Reality of Rights. In December 1985, while signing a bill to designate the week Human Rights Week in the United States, Ronald Reagan declared that the day was to “take stock, to survey the globe with an eye not so much towards words, as to actual deeds, to measure the world against the noble assertions of the Universal “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andTHE SHOW MUST GO ON
The Show Must Go On: American Culture in Times of Crisis. This is a free crowdsourced American history curriculum developed by American scholars to help reduce the workload of millions of teachers and professors on the frontlines of public education during the unprecedented #Covid19 shutdowns and university evacuations. THE "MASSACRE" AND THE AFTERMATH 6:00 A.M., SEPTEMBER 28, 1901 BALANGIGA, SAMAR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The bugler of Company C, Ninth Infantry, sounded the call for breakfast. American soldiers, unarmed, made their way to the mess hall. Outside, the Filipino Chief of Police, Valeriano Abanador, prepared Filipino prisoners for a day of forced labor. Suddenly, Abanador seized Private Adolph Gamlin’s rifle MORE EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great New England transcendental thinker, noted, “The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons or opinions or possessions.” 4 New nineteenth century definitions of gentility were closely compatible with transcendental, egalitarian thought. ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. During World War II, the United States incarcerated nearly all of its Japanese American residents. Japanese Americans were concentrated on the West Coast in makeshift internment camps. Edward J. Ennis, the director of the United States Justice Department’s Alien Enemy Control Unit in 1943 explained thatTHE SOUL OF FOOD
The Soul of Food. While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing (and profitable) draw for tourism in the South. Southern food has inspired trails, websites, songs, books, television shows, and LEVITTOWN - US HISTORY SCENE Levitt & Sons Nassau County, Long Island In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veteransreturned MORE
"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “ReubenNEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION: ANIMALS OF THE CIVIL WAR The Civil War, however, was also the first war of “industrialized animal power,” the greatest single event demanding the massive mobilization of animals and their ability to perform work in the nineteenth century. Dogs, oxen, the odd camel and eagle, and hundreds of thousands of horses and mules participated in the war as agents ofwork
GENDER AND RACE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY DEBATES Gender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates. In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a ManU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP Gentility in the United States For early Americans, reaching high social status was not a process shaped exclusively by birth. Nor did it have to be a long, gradual process, taking place over generations. Gentility was something that could be achieved through careful study and practice. Most significantly, it was something to be performed. Precedents for gentility, MORE AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sightAMERICAN CONTACT
Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University, History of Art) CFP: American Contact is a multi-disciplinary symposium that invites scholars to discuss the use of material texts in cross-cultural encounters in the Americas. We seek to explore how texts—broadly defined to include not only books but textual artifacts and materialculture including
“LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”.NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave SYNOPSIS FROM ILLINOIS BLACK CODE OF 1819 Synopsis From Illinois Black Code Of 1819. Sec. I. Prohibits any black or mulatto person settling or residing in the State without producing a certificate of freedom, etc. This section wasU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP Gentility in the United States For early Americans, reaching high social status was not a process shaped exclusively by birth. Nor did it have to be a long, gradual process, taking place over generations. Gentility was something that could be achieved through careful study and practice. Most significantly, it was something to be performed. Precedents for gentility, MORE AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sightAMERICAN CONTACT
Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University, History of Art) CFP: American Contact is a multi-disciplinary symposium that invites scholars to discuss the use of material texts in cross-cultural encounters in the Americas. We seek to explore how texts—broadly defined to include not only books but textual artifacts and materialculture including
“LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”.NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave SYNOPSIS FROM ILLINOIS BLACK CODE OF 1819 Synopsis From Illinois Black Code Of 1819. Sec. I. Prohibits any black or mulatto person settling or residing in the State without producing a certificate of freedom, etc. This section was THE "MASSACRE" AND THE AFTERMATH 6:00 A.M., SEPTEMBER 28, 1901 BALANGIGA, SAMAR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The bugler of Company C, Ninth Infantry, sounded the call for breakfast. American soldiers, unarmed, made their way to the mess hall. Outside, the Filipino Chief of Police, Valeriano Abanador, prepared Filipino prisoners for a day of forced labor. Suddenly, Abanador seized Private Adolph Gamlin’s rifle MORE LEVITTOWN - US HISTORY SCENE Levitt & Sons Nassau County, Long Island In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veteransreturned MORE
PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sight HOLDING CANADA HOSTAGE Holding Canada Hostage. When the eight hundred Irish-American Civil War veterans marched across the border at Buffalo to invade Canada on a sunny June day in 1866, their hearts were set on a victory for Irish independence. With a confusing strategy, unrealistic goal, and the tunnel vision of their leaders, they bravely advanced forward.AMERICAN CONTACT
Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University, History of Art) CFP: American Contact is a multi-disciplinary symposium that invites scholars to discuss the use of material texts in cross-cultural encounters in the Americas. We seek to explore how texts—broadly defined to include not only books but textual artifacts and materialculture including
ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. During World War II, the United States incarcerated nearly all of its Japanese American residents. Japanese Americans were concentrated on the West Coast in makeshift internment camps. Edward J. Ennis, the director of the United States Justice Department’s Alien Enemy Control Unit in 1943 explained thatNEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slave BROWNIES - US HISTORY SCENE Bake in small, shallow fancy cake tins, garnishing top of each cake with one-half pecan. The first published recipe for brownies made with chocolate available on record may be from the Service Club of Chicago’s 1904 Cook Book, a publication of recipes contributed by club members in a section on “Candy.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andU.S. HISTORY SCENE
Humanities Education in the Digital Age For Immediate Release U.S. History Scene (co-founded by Assistant Prof. Rhae Lynn Barnes, History) is a founding partner and digital architect of the National Humanities Center’s groundbreaking “Humanities in the ClassDigital Library.”
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THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. During World War II, the United States incarcerated nearly all of its Japanese American residents. Japanese Americans were concentrated on the West Coast in makeshift internment camps. Edward J. Ennis, the director of the United States Justice Department’s Alien Enemy Control Unit in 1943 explained that PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sightTHE SOUL OF FOOD
The Soul of Food. While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing (and profitable) draw for tourism in the South. Southern food has inspired trails, websites, songs, books, television shows, and "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
GENDER AND RACE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY DEBATES Gender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates. In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a ManU.S. HISTORY SCENE
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AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST The Frontier Thesis may have “created” Western history but it also set up arbitrary divisions between “the West” and “the rest” – divisions Limerick was determined to break down in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. Much of Limerick’s work hinges on the debate of “process” (how events unfolded WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. During World War II, the United States incarcerated nearly all of its Japanese American residents. Japanese Americans were concentrated on the West Coast in makeshift internment camps. Edward J. Ennis, the director of the United States Justice Department’s Alien Enemy Control Unit in 1943 explained that PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sightTHE SOUL OF FOOD
The Soul of Food. While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing (and profitable) draw for tourism in the South. Southern food has inspired trails, websites, songs, books, television shows, and "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
GENDER AND RACE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY DEBATES Gender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates. In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a Man THE "MASSACRE" AND THE AFTERMATH 6:00 A.M., SEPTEMBER 28, 1901 BALANGIGA, SAMAR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS The bugler of Company C, Ninth Infantry, sounded the call for breakfast. American soldiers, unarmed, made their way to the mess hall. Outside, the Filipino Chief of Police, Valeriano Abanador, prepared Filipino prisoners for a day of forced labor. Suddenly, Abanador seized Private Adolph Gamlin’s rifle MORE THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1870-1914 Unprecedented Urbanization. Between 1820 and 1860, the visual map of the United States was transformed by unprecedented urbanization and rapid territorial expansion. These changes mutually fueled the Second Industrial Revolution which peaked between 1870 and 1914. Between the annexation of Texas (1845), the British retreat from Oregon country AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY Although not featured prominently in history books, American land and agricultural policy laid the groundwork for the country’s geographic, political, and economic development. It defined settlement patterns, characterized America’s role in the global market, and navigated the country in and out of economic turmoil. While most agricultural policy is distinguished by financial assistance to DAILY LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION Daily Life during the Depression. Although the Great Depression was born on Wall Street, it affected Americans in their homes and on the streets, and its ramifications would echo for decades. The record unemployment of the Great Depression is jarring but doesn’t even begin to convey the distress felt by individuals in their daily livesfor so
GENDER AND RACE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY DEBATES Gender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates. In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a Man "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the FIVE MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION The United States Constitution is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States, yet there are many myths and misconceptions persist among the American public concerning its functions, purposes and goals. The following five myths are some of the most common and most important to understand. Misconception No. 1:The MORE
BROWNIES - US HISTORY SCENE Bake in small, shallow fancy cake tins, garnishing top of each cake with one-half pecan. The first published recipe for brownies made with chocolate available on record may be from the Service Club of Chicago’s 1904 Cook Book, a publication of recipes contributed by club members in a section on “Candy.”. PUERTO RICO'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES? Today, Puerto Rico remains a Commonwealth. But, Puerto Rico’s relationship to the United States remains hotly debated. Puerto Ricans voted on their status in 1967, 1991, 1993, and 1998. In 1967, 60% of Puerto Ricans voted to maintain their commonwealth status, whileU.S. HISTORY SCENE
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WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP Gentility in the United States For early Americans, reaching high social status was not a process shaped exclusively by birth. Nor did it have to be a long, gradual process, taking place over generations. Gentility was something that could be achieved through careful study and practice. Most significantly, it was something to be performed. Precedents for gentility, MORE AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
LEVITTOWN - US HISTORY SCENE Levitt & Sons Nassau County, Long Island In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veteransreturned MORE
TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
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Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slaveU.S. HISTORY SCENE
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WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR EATING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP Gentility in the United States For early Americans, reaching high social status was not a process shaped exclusively by birth. Nor did it have to be a long, gradual process, taking place over generations. Gentility was something that could be achieved through careful study and practice. Most significantly, it was something to be performed. Precedents for gentility, MORE AMERICA'S LARGEST SLAVE REVOLT The German Coast Uprising of 1811 under the leadership of Charles Deslandes (1780 -15 January 1811) has evaded the attention of most historians. It is unclear if Deslondes was a free man of color born in Saint-Domingue and was part of the large-scale 1809 immigration to Louisiana from that colony after the Haitian Revolution (1891-1804).MORE
LEVITTOWN - US HISTORY SCENE Levitt & Sons Nassau County, Long Island In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veteransreturned MORE
TOP 20 TEXAS MUSIC LEGENDS AND SONGS Bringing music into the history classroom can bring the past to life while challenging students to think critically about lyrical content, the role of mythology in shaping the history of a place or time, and the importance of cultural memory. As US History Scene explores the "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben “LET THEM EAT GRASS” A poor harvest in 1861 was followed by a harsh winter. By the next summer, the Dakota were on the verge of starving. But government gold was in short supply because of the war, and annuities to the Dakota were late. Traders refused to sell on credit. When told that the Dakota were starving, one trader responded, “Let them eat grass.”. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP’S TWELVE The Cultural Significance of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. Drugged and beaten, Solomon Northup was illegally kidnapped from his hometown in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York and taken to Washington, D.C. in 1841. He woke up in the slave pen where he was sadistically remade from a black free man in the North into a slave inthe South.
NEGOTIATING SLAVERY
Negotiating Slavery. Upon seeing two girls, one white and one black, playing together carefree in antebellum Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs commented: “when I saw them embracing each other, and hear their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight. I foresaw the inevitable blight that would fall on the little slaveTHE SOUL OF FOOD
The Soul of Food. While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing (and profitable) draw for tourism in the South. Southern food has inspired trails, websites, songs, books, television shows, and EDUCATION TO THE MASSES Institutions of Knowledge As George Washington ended his term as the first president of the United States, he left with a few parting words. Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796 delineated many of the recommendations Washington had for the future of his country. Amongst these suggestions was a public education system. Washington instructed American leaders to MORE PREVENTING A THIRD WORLD WAR Preventing a Third World War. Five years after the end of World War II, the United States became involved in yet another armed conflict. In 1950, the United States, as part of a United Nations force, sent troops to aide South Korea in countering the threat of communist North Korea. In 1951 it seemed as though there may have been an end in sight AMERICA’S FIRST FAILURE AT GOVERNMENT Economic Disorganization. The first flaw of the Articles of Confederation was its economic disorganization which led to financial hardship for the emerging nation. By the late 1780s, America was struggling to compete economically and pay off the debts it accumulated in its fight for independence. DAILY LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION Daily Life during the Depression. Although the Great Depression was born on Wall Street, it affected Americans in their homes and on the streets, and its ramifications would echo for decades. The record unemployment of the Great Depression is jarring but doesn’t even begin to convey the distress felt by individuals in their daily livesfor so
"THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”. Woody was a giant of the folk music genre. In addition to the de facto national anthem of “This Land,” Woody’s songs—like “Reuben BROWNIES - US HISTORY SCENE Bake in small, shallow fancy cake tins, garnishing top of each cake with one-half pecan. The first published recipe for brownies made with chocolate available on record may be from the Service Club of Chicago’s 1904 Cook Book, a publication of recipes contributed by club members in a section on “Candy.”. FIVE MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION The United States Constitution is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States, yet there are many myths and misconceptions persist among the American public concerning its functions, purposes and goals. The following five myths are some of the most common and most important to understand. Misconception No. 1:The MORE
USING PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE CLASSROOM AND FOR HISTORICAL Historians use the term “primary source” to describe a piece of historical evidence such as an artifact, photograph, newspaper article, book, or letter originally created during the era you are researching. Abraham Lincoln’s is a primary source, as are the uniforms Union and Confederate soldiers wore while listening to himspeak on
A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN ELLIOTT WEST: PART I A Conversation with Historian Elliott West: Part I. P. Albert Lacson : Thanks so much, Elliott, for your willingness to chat with U.S. History Scene and the historians of the NEH “View from the East” seminar this afternoon about your life and work as a teacher andToggle navigation
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