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

Primary Resources

Teddy Roosevelt and the World

Courtesy of Nahant Public Library

A Book of Clippings and Photographs Relating to President Roosevelt’s Visit to Nahant, August, 1902.  This extraordinary collection of clippings and photographs document virtually every aspect of TR’s trip to Boston, Nahant, and Lynn in 1902.  It is certainly worth looking through this collection.

Courtesy of Newburyport Public Library

Newburyport Daily News.  August 25, 1902.  This edition of the Newburyport Daily News recounts TR’s visit to Lynn and Boston.