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

Upcoming Seminars

Westward Migration
The Culture of Jim Crow
October 29, 2008

The China Trade
November 19, 2008

Primary Resources



Primary Sources - Year One, 2006

Early Colonial History, February 2006

19th Century Immigration, March 2006

20th Century Immigration, April 2006

America in Conflict, Summer Insitute 2006




Primary Sources - Year Two, 2006 - 2007

Women and Abolition in Massachusetts, October 2006

The Fighting Founders: Political Conflict in the Early Republic, November 2006

Integration: Ole Miss, Little Rock and Boston Busing, December 2006

Religion, Revival and Reform: The Second Great Awakening and Its Legacy, January 2007

The Roaring Twenties, March 2007

The Changing Landscape of Essex County, March 2007

About 20 Miles Outside Boston: The Growth of Suburbia in the 20th
Century, April 2007

The Fishing Industry in Essex County, May 2007

The '76ers: Turning Points in American History, Summer Institute 2007



Primary Resources - Year Three, 2007 - 2008

Progressivism, October 2007

The Growth of Southern Slavery, November 2007

The Vietnam War, December 2007

Second Wave Feminism, January 2008

Explaining the 19th Century, February 2008

The New Deal, March 2008

Ratifying the Constitution in Massachusetts, April 2008

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times, Summer Institute 2008




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.