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John Lewis Gaddis on the start of the cold war
The End of the Alliance John Lewis Gaddis, excerpted from The Cold War: A New History John Lewis Gaddis is a professor at Yale University who is one of the foremost American historians of the Cold...
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Historians Review: Edmund S. Morgan
(Periodically I will include information about prominent historians to help you explore historiography, deepen your understanding of history, and help you understand key concept and interpretations of...
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The Deerfield Massacre
Professor John Demos of Yale University wrote this article for American Heritage magazine. This article was adapted from his book, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America. Our...
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Historians Review: Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn (born 1922) is a preeminent historian who taught at Harvard University from the 1960s until the 1990s actively, although he retains emeritus status since 1993. His specialties include...
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A short history of the articles of Confederation
This video can also be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h10eSXRFs This is a student presentation. She did a pretty good job, and found some great pictures. This video also discusses the role...
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Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
This video can also be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pgc0Da5Q9M
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Videos: Popular Sovereignty and the Significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Take notes. None of these are more than 2 minutes long. Popular Sovereignty The Significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act And John Brown The full timeline that these videos are drawn from (this is...
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Eric Foner on Dred Scott and Lincoln
From The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner, chapter 4. Two days after the inauguration of James Buchanan in March 1957, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most...
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The use of primary source interviews: The Slave Narratives
This video can also be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wHRuKwImAk Professor James Horton discusses the significance of the WPA Slave Narrative project.
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Extra credit books to read
You will complete a project on one of these books by May 14. You may only do this extra credit project if all assignments have been turned in. This can be worth up to 3% of your final grade. Many of...
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Questions over the Turner Thesis
For those of you who did not pick up the printed packets, you are going to want to get started on the questions, so here is a .pdf of the packet. You need to get started on these questions as soon as...
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