Using ESSEX History is a three-year project to improve the quality of American History instruction in Essex County's middle schools and high schools through teacher seminars and summer institutes on the people, places and events of
Essex County, Massachusetts.

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

Field
Resources

Explore early settlement, maritime and industrial sites in Essex County.



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Jan Maetzliger

Lesson
Plans

Developed by teachers using primary and field resources available here and throughout Essex County.

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List of Import Tariffs from 19th Century

Primary
Resources

Documents, online here and available through our partners, for teaching any American History class.

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Seminars and Institutes

Bacon's Rebellion and Slavery in America

General Institute Information
Syllabus






  • Date: July 16 , 2007
  • Location: Peabody Institute Library, Danvers (Gordon Room)
  • Time:9AM - 4PM
    • Address and Directions


    Salem State College’s Dr. Emerson Baker, author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England will lead teachers through a discussion of Bacon’s Rebellion and its impact on the institutionalization of black chattel slavery in the American colonies. This session will take place at the Peabody Institute Library and the Rebecca Nurse Homestead – a 17th century historic house museum in Danvers, MA.

     

Bibliography

Edmund Morgan. American Slavery/American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton & Company, 1975.

Address and Directions

  • Peabody Institute Library, Danvers
  • 15 Sylvan Street
    Danvers, MA
  • Map

  • From Route 128
  • Take exit 23N (Rte. 35 -- High St.) and go right toward Danvers Square.
    At the lights for the main intersection in the Square, turn left onto Elm St.
    At the Town Hall (large white building), stay left. You are now on Sylvan St.
    The Library (large cream colored building) is a short way beyond Town Hall on the right.


Using ESSEX History Themes

Using ESSEX History will address four core themes in American history. These four themes are listed below. Teachers will find materials that relate to specific topics linked to the appropriate heading. Any subjects that relate to more than one theme will be linked to all of the appropriate headings.