Website Spotlight: God in America

 

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links--at the appropriate time in the semester when the material is applicable:

I. Colonial Era

The Protestant Reformation
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/protestant-reformation.html

A New Adam (Puritan period)
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/study-guide/one.html

The Pilgrims
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/pilgrims.html

John Winthrop
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/john-winthrop.html

Interview with Professor Stephen Marini
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/interviews/stephen-marini.html#winthrop

The Puritans
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/puritans.html
Paul Boyer interview
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/puritans.html

Anne Hutchinson
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/anne-hutchinson.html

Roger Williams
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/roger-williams.html

Jonathan Edwards
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/jonathan-edwards.html

George Whitefield
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/george-whitefield.html

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II. Second Great Awakening

Charles Finney
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/charles-finney.html

James Finley (Circuit Rider)
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/james-finley.html

Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nevanrev.htm

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III. Slavery

Angelina and Sarah Grimke
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/angelina-grimke.html

Nat Turner
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/nat-turner.html

Frederick Douglass
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/frederick-douglass.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/harriet-beecher-stowe.html

Sojourner Truth
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/sojourner-truth.html

Harriet Tubman
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/harriet-tubman.html

William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/william-lloyd-garrison.html

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IV. Reform

Lyman Beecher (Benevolent Empire)
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/lyman-beecher.html

Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/susan-b-anthony.html

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton.html

Lucretia Mott
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/lucretia-mott.html

Frances Willard (Women's Christian Temperance Union)
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/frances-willard.html

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within several U.S. History survey course modules on my wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Colonial+Era
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Slavery
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Reform

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture

Website URL: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html
 
Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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I ask the students to work through the following links:

Pilgrim's Progress
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/christn/jbpphp.html

African Colonization
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/colonizhp.html

Minstrel Song Sheets
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/migallsof.html

Minstrel Playbills
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/mibillshp.html

Minstrel Advertisements
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/miadshp.html

Minstrelsy: A Digital Enactment
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/movie/mimovhp.html

Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Children's Book
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/childrn/cbhp.html

~~For reviews of this website:

History Matters (The U.S. Survey Course on the Web)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4909/
TeachingHistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse)
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/14658

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/The+1850s

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Captive Passage

 
Website URL: http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/index.html

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
Mariners Museum (Newport News, Virginia)

I ask the students to work through the following links within the 6 major sections of the website:

I. Introduction
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/introduction/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Introduction of Slavery
Origins of Race-based Slavery

II. Departure
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/departure/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Departure from Africa
West Africa before Slaving
Contact Between Europeans and Africans
The Enslavement of Africans
Resistance and Endurance

III. Middle Passage
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/middlepassage/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Sailing and Storms
Stowage
Illness and Death
Ships and Crews
Provisions
Enduring the Middle Passage
Resistance

IV. Arrival: Life in the Americas
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/arrival/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Preference for Africans
The Slave Markets
European Rewards
Slave Populations
The Ships Return to Europe
The Economics of Slave Labor
Sugar Introduction     
Slavery in North America   
Religion: African Worldview
    
V. Abolition
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/abolition/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Outlawing the Trade: Fighting Illegal Slave Trading
A Growing Hunger for Freedom  
The Struggle for Emancipation: Africans Becoming Americans

VI. Legacy: Building New Nations
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/captivepassage/legacy/index.html

Click on the subtopics at the top of the screen:

Africa's Gifts
The Black Church
Education
Food
Music

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Slavery

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: In Motion

 

Website URL: http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture

I ask the students to work through the following links:

I. THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=1

Read each subtopic.

Overview
The Development of the Trade
Capture and Enslavement
Traders and Trade
The Middle Passage
Africans in America
Ethnicities in the United States
The Suppression of the Slave Trade
Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa
Legacies in America

II. RUNAWAY JOURNEYS

http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=2

Read each subtopic.

Overview
Many Reasons to Leave
The Peaks of Migration
Profile of the Fugitives
Escape to Cities and Towns
Maroon Communities
Going South and West
Up North
Canada, the Promised Land
The Civil War
The Consequences of the Migration

III. THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE

http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=3

Read each subtopic.

Overview
Exporters and Importers
Modes of Transportation
The Victims of the trade
The Slave traders
The National Debate
The End of the Domestic Slave trade

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Slavery

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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The best part of this website is the interactive timeline entitled "A Century of Segregation."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html

The timeline is divided into 5 chronological sections.

To read a pop-up screen about that particular subject, just click on the tab.

I ask the students to concentrate on the following items from each section:

A. 1863-1880
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html

Reconstruction Begins
Ku Klux Klan
Hayes-Tilden election (1876)
End of Reconstruction

B. 1881-1900
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation2.html

Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Plessy versus Ferguson
Spanish-American War
The Blues

C. 1901-1920
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation3.html

Souls of Black Folk
NAACP
Segregation in the U.S. Government
Birth of a Nation

D. 1921-1938
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation4.html

Harlem Renaissance
Scottsboro Case

E. 1939-1954
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation5.html

March on Washington
Jackie Robinson
President Truman Supports Civil Rights
Brown versus Board of Education

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Civil+Rights

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT 

Website Spotlight: Africans in America

Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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We can access the rich material in this website by four time periods:

• Part 1: 1450-1750
• Part 2: 1750-1805
• Part 3: 1791-1831
• Part 4: 1831-1865

I find that Part 4 works well for my slavery module. Here is how it is laid out on the site.

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Part 4: Judgment Day (1831-1865)

I. Narrative:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/narrative.html

Introduction
Map: From Coast to Coast
Antebellum Slavery (see below for my specific assignment)
Abolitionism
Fugitive Slaves and Northern Racism (see below for my specific assignment)
Westward Expansion
The Civil War

II. Resource Bank:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html

People and Events
Historical Documents
Modern Voices (comments by historians)

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With my class, I focused on two specific sections from Part 4, asking the students to work through the following links:

1. ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY

Introductory Narrative
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr1.html

Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1569.html

Butler Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2920.html

The Weeping Time
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2918.html

H. E. Hayward and slave nurse Louisa
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3140.html

Slave quarters on St. Georges Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1540.html

James Horton on antebellum slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3104.html

Nell Irvan Painter on soul murder and slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3084.html

William Scarborough on antebellum slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3101.html

Margaret Washington on Butler Island and slave life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i2968.html

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2. FUGITIVE SLAVES AND NORTHERN RACISM

Introductory Narrative
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr3.html

The Underground Railroad
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html

Race-based legislation in the North
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2957.html

Harriet Jacobs
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2923.html

Harriet Tubman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

Slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html

Anthony Burns captured
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2915.html

David Blight on slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i2986.html

Margaret Washington on Harriet Jacobs
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3089.html

~~For reviews of the Africans in America website:

History Matters (The U.S. Survey Course on the Web)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4921/
TeachingHistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse)
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/14637

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Slavery

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT