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

teaching with material and visual culture

General Institute Information
Syllabus





  • Date: July 20 , 2007
  • Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Riley 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

Patricia Johnston, ed. Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter Three: Sarah Burns. “Cartoons In Color: David Gilmor Blythe’s Very Uncivil War.”
  • Chapter Five: Patricia Hills. “Resistance and Accommodation in the Civil War Art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast.”
  • Chapter Six: Patricia M. Burnham “Custer’s Last Stand: High-Low on Old and New Frontiers”

Address and Directions

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    465 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, Massachusetts


  • Public Transportation
    Take the Green Line "E" train to the "Museum of Fine Arts" stop, or the Orange Line train to the "Ruggles" stop.


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.