UMBC Center for History Education

Teaching American History in Anne Arundel County Program

2007 Summer Institute:  July 9 – 20

History 525K/725K:  Colloquium in History Education for Middle School Teachers

Including Women, Children, and Youth in 19^th Century American History

Description:

This course examines the evolution of representative democracy from the Early Republic through Reconstruction. We will reference the U.S. Constitution and how the world's first representative democracy evolved during the nineteenth century; especially as that history is reflected in the lives of women, children, and youth. During the nineteenth century Americans worked to implement the Constitutional framework in an increasingly diverse, expanding, and economically complex United States. Looking at the experiences of society's “dependents” provides an interesting perspective that should help to engage today's students in uncovering the nation's history.

While the Election of 1800 showed that the constitution allowed for the peaceful transition of power from one political majority to another, over the course of the first half of the nineteenth century other controversies arose that led to the American Civil War. The ending of that war and reunification of the North and South created new opportunities for understanding the meaning of American freedom and representative democracy. The end of the century included Reconstruction, the move from an agrarian to a more urban nation, and the growth of the United States as a world power. The lives of women, children, and youth highlight these changes.

Attendance and participation are expected of all students.

Course requirements:

Required of ALL students – One expanded Lesson Plan, following the Center for History Education Lesson Plan Format.

Due dates: Initial draft/outline: July 20, 2007; Rough draft: August 3, 2007; Final draft: August 17, 2007.

The instructional team may modify due dates.

500 Level Option - Graded

Teachers enrolled in the 500-level graduate credit option must fulfill the participation (20%) and lesson plan (80%) requirements to earn three graduate credits, which can be applied toward advanced certification.

700 Level Option - Graded (available at the end of Summer Institute, with permission of
instructor only):

Participation requirement (20%) and lesson plan assignment (20%) plus one research paper (60%), rough and final drafts, to be submitted by the end of the Fall 2007 semester. The paper should adhere to the standard historical format, and will be a minimum of 15 double-spaced pages in length. Students enrolled in this option will consult with the course historian during the Fall 2007 semester. The three graduate credits earned can be applied toward a graduate program and advanced certification.

(See the attached document “Lesson Plan Format” for additional information.)

Required Texts:

Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed. Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Women in American History. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000.

Melton A. Maurin. Celia: A Slave. Avon, 1999.

James Marten. The Children's Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. 2000.

Be sure to also see the Maryland State Archives collection of online primary documents for teachers: http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/html/packets.html

Additional helpful links:

 Immigration Legislation History (this is a Wikipedia article, so there are some problems, but overall, this is a solid overview of the history of U.S. immigration)

Mapping History Project http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/index.html

Kudzu map http://www.research.umbc.edu/~lindenme/hist102/images/thesouth.jpg

Cotton production http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/map15.html

Slavery in the U.S. South http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/map17.html

America's First Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html

Historical Statistics Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

Top 25 American Indian Tribes http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/indian/ailang1.txt

Demographic Trends in the 20th Century US http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf

Historical Statistics by Race http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056.html

United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm

Reading Assignments

1. July 9, Monday 9:15-noon
Establishing a Constitutional Democracy?---the necessary background

The U.S. Constitution http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
historical documents and essays http://www.house.gov/house/Educate.shtml
CHE Lesson Plan:

“The Founding Fathers and the Constitutional Struggle Over Centralized Power”
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=46
CHE Lesson Plan:
“Democratic Ideas of the 1776 Maryland Constitution”

http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=28

Read in Ordinary Women:

Introduction
      “Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma,” pp.39-54.

§         Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

       Other items of interest:

§         “Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery”
Primary documents: http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000152/html/t152.html
Maps of the L&C Trail http://www.nps.gov/lecl/planyourvisit/upload/lecl%20map.pdf
Interactive online map http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/trailmap/index.html
Members of the Corps of Discovery http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/idx_corp.html
Bison in America http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=423

“Discovering Lewis and Clark” website (Univ. of Montana)

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-tableofcontents.asp

2. July 10, Tuesday 9:00-noon
Jeffersonian America and Westward Expansion, 1800-1832
Read in Ordinary Women:
“Introduction” and “The Revolutionary Era and the Early Republic,” pp.xi-3.
“Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic,” pp.5-23.
“Susanna Haswell Rowson: America’s First Best-Selling Author,” pp.25-38.

Subtopics:

§         Family Life in the New Nation

§         Martha Ballard’s Diary, http://www.dohistory.org

§         Defining American Citizenship: Republican Motherhood

§         The Trail of Tears, http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
     Trail of Tears Lesson Plan from the National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/trte/forteachers/index.htm

 

3. July 11, Wednesday 9:00-noon
Jacksonian America and the Coming of the Civil War 1828-1850
Read in Ordinary Women:
“The Mid-Nineteenth Century,” pp.55-57. “Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendental Activist,” pp.59-71.
“Eliza Johnson Potter: Traveler, Entrepreneur, and Social Critic,” pp.91-104.
“Mary S. Gove Nichols: Making the Personal Political,” pp.73-90.
Read: Melton A. Maurin. Celia: A Slave. Avon, 1999.

Subtopics:

§         The Lowell System:
      http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/introduction.html
     Harriett Robinson, Lowell Girl, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html
      CHE Lesson Plan: Lowell Girls  
      http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=22
 

§         Transcendentalism
      American Transcendentalism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
     

§         Second Great Awakening
     Oberlin Women and Reform, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/oberlin/abstract.htm
     Female Moral Reform, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/fmrs/abstract.htm
 

§         Slavery and Gender
     Elizabeth Keckley,
      http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000037/html/t37.html
     Harriett Jacobs Papers http://www.harrietjacobspapers.org

CHE Lesson Plan: Daily Life of Slaves
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=26

 

§         Regionalism (social, economic, political)
      CHE Lesson Plan: Maryland During the Secession Crisis
      http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=18

     CHE Lesson Plan: Lincoln and the Republicans
     http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=38

4. July 13, Friday 9:00-noon
Family Life in a Transforming America, 1820-1880
Read in Ordinary Women:
“Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes: ‘Follow the Drum’,” pp.105-120.
“Teresa E. Woolridge Ivey: Constructing the Ideal Southern Lady,” pp.121-132.

Historical Statistics Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

U.S. Census 2007 Statistics http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Historical Statistics on Immigration and Population in the US

    http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/twps0029.html
 

Subtopics:

§         Inventing the middle-class American family
     Vital Records in Maryland http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/vitalrec.html
 

§         Health and medical care
      Medicine in Maryland http://www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/index.cfm
         History http://www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/dsp_pt1.cfm
     Dress Reform Movement, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/dress/abstract.htm
 

§         Women’s Rights and the Seneca Falls Convention
     Woman Suffrage Movement, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
      Women's Rights Movement http://www.legacy98.org/
     Campaign for Woman's Suffrage in Colorado:
      http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/colosuff.htm

Sojourner Truth and Female Suffrage, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth2.html
      CHE Lesson Plan: Black Women Speaking Out
      http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=48

 

§         Families and slavery
     Allen Parker Slave Narrative http://core.ecu.edu/hist/cecelskid/
      CHE Lesson Plan: Daily Life of Slaves
      http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=26

 

§         Abolitionists
     Lucretia Mott and Anti-Slavery, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/mott/abstract.htm
     Abolitionism Overview, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/abhp.html
      Frederick Douglass primary documents:
      http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000181/html/t181.html
     
      CHE Lesson Plan: Francis Ellen Watkins
      http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=50

 

§         Early Industrialization
     The Lowell System:
      http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/introduction.html
     General Overview, http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/

5. July 16, Monday, 9:00-noon
The Civil War and Reconstruction as a Crisis in Gender
Read: James Marten, The Children's Civil War (entire book)
Civil War Women, http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
Susie King Taylor, http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97267/
and http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html
Women and Freedmen's Aid, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aid/abstract.htm

Library of Congress: The Civil War Through a Child's Eye http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/civilwar/index.html
 

CHE Lesson Plan: Northern Racism and NYC Draft Riots
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=37

CHE Lesson Plan: Did Southern Free Men of Color Fight for the Ideals of the South?
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=49
 

CHE Lesson Plan: The Freedman’s Bureau, Success or Failure
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=24

Please also read the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments:
              http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#amendments
              and http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/sbatrial.html
              and http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

15^th Amendment Documents http://www.msa.md.gov/dtroy/project/index.html

Subtopics:

§         Redefining Citizenship
     Woman Suffrage, http://www.legacy98.org/
     Dred Scott Decision, http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000009/html/t9.html
     Elizabeth Wharton Case, http://www.teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000038/html/t38.html

§         Jim Crow segregation
     Ida B. Wells, http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wells.html
     African American Women and the 1893 World's Fair
     http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ibw/abstract.htm

General sites on the American Civil War:
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities during the Civil War, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Ken Burns’ “Civil War”, Teachers’ Guide, http://www.pbs.org/als/civil_war/civwdescrip.htm

6. July 18, Wednesday  9:00-noon

Settling the West
Read in Ordinary Women:
“The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” pp.133-135.
“Nellie Wiegel, ‘How About That?!’” pp.161-178.
“Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford: Between Two Worlds,” pp.179-196.
 

Subtopics:

§         Federal Indian Policy
     Sarah Winnemucka, http://women.eb.com/women/articles/Winnemucca_Sarah.html
     Native American Women Exhibition     
      http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

§         Indians and the Ghost Dance Movement
     Ghost Dance Movement, http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r519.htm
     Battle of Wounded Knee, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec29.html

§         Frontier Life
     End of the Oregon Trail Museum, http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/
     Cavalry Wives,
      http://www.nps.gov/foda/Fort_Davis_WEB_PAGE/About_the_Fort/Following_The_Guidon.htm
     and http://www.nps.gov/fopo/exhibits/women/women5.htm

§         Ethnic Diversity in the West
     History of the American West, Library of Congress,
      http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/about.html
     Black Americans in the West, http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/af_ap.html
     Chinese in the West, http://www.cetel.org/part2.html
     and Images of Chinese in the Popular Press,
      http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/cic:@field(ALTTITLE+@od1(Harper's+Weekly))
     Mexican American Women, see Library of Congress American Memory project
      http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

7. July 19, Thursday  9:00-10:30

            So, where do we go from here?