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

 

Previous Seminars

Teddy Roosevelt and the World
May 14, 2008

The Rise of the New Right
April 28, 2009

 Early Cold War
March 9, 2009

The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
January 30, 2009

The China Trade
November 19, 2008

The Culture of Jim Crow
October 29, 2008

Integration: Ole Miss, Little Rock and Boston Busing

General Seminar Information
Application Deadline: November 13
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  • Date: December 5, 2006
  • Location: Enterprise Center, Training Room B
  • Salem State College
  • Time:9AM - 3PM

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    • Jamie Wilson
    • Professor of History
    • Salem State College

    Jamie J. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Modern United States and African American History in the Department of History at Salem State College. Originally from New Castle, Delaware, he obtained his Bachelor's Degree in United States History from the University of Delaware and Master's Degree and Doctorate in Post-1865 United States History and African Diaspora History from New York University. The author of several scholarly articles, he is currently working on a forthcoming edited collection of the works of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X entitled, "God's Angry Men: Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Nation of Islam in the Late 1950s."

    Syllabus

     

  • Address and Directions
  • From Route 128
  • Exit 25 to Route 114 East for 3.9 miles to Salem State College North Campus. Bear right at lights (following 1A South) onto Loring Avenue. Central Campus and the Enterprise Center are 3 blocks on the left, directly across Loring Avenue from the Salem Diner.
    Map


Bibliography

  • Formisano, Ronald P. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991.


  • Anderson, Karen. “The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis: Moderation and Social Conflict.” The Journal of Southern History Vol. LXXX no. 3 (August, 2004).


  • Gaines, Kevin. “Whose Integration Was It? An Introduction” in “Round Table: Brown Versus Board of Education, Fifty Years After.” Journal of American History (June, 2004).


  • Theoharis, Jeanne. ”’We Saved the City’: Black Struggles for Educational Equality in Boston, 1960-1976.” Radical History Review Issue 81 (fall, 2001).

Discussion Questions

    • For each of the scholarly works, participants should be able to answer the following questions.


  1. What is the author’s project? What is his/her overarching thesis? In the case of Boston Against Busing, what are the theses of each chapter? How do these chapter theses further his project?

  2. What sources does the author consult? Are there any sources the author could have consulted to improve the work?

  3. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the work. How could it have been improved?

  4. What are the ways in which the various articles and book diverge and converge?

  5. How can the book/article be used in your courses?

 


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.