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Focus |
Leaders |
2/2 Module 2:
Colonization and Settlement
Lead Scholar:
Dr. Sean Condon
(pdf)
(ppt)
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18th Century Colonial Society |
Joseph Dudley
George Whitefield
Samson Occam
Jonathan Edwards
Bathsheba Kingsley
Andrew Montour
Pontiac
Neolin
Benjamin Franklin
William Byrd |
2/9 Technology
Research and information:
John Wren
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Photoshop Editing |
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2/24 Module 5:
Civil War and Reconstruction
Lead Scholar:
Dr. Michael Millner
(links)
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The Force of Literature: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the Politics of Race and Gender in the 19th Century |
Orestes Brownson
Catharine Beecher,
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Sarah Grimke,
Frederick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth |
2/26 Dilemmas and Opportunities Leadership Conference |
Guest Speaker Peter Miller
Documentary: Sacco and Vanzetti Book Discussion Group
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders and the Judgment of Mankind |
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3/2 Technology
Research and information:
John Wren
*Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Photoshop editing. |
Photoshop Advanced |
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3/9 Module 4:
Expansion and Reform
Lead Scholar:
Dr. Robert Forrant
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Voices of Immigrants-Voices of Reform
Lecture and visit to Tsongas Industrial Center
(Immigrant workshop) |
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3/28 Module 4:
Expansion and Reform
Lead Scholars:
Dr. Dean Bergeron & Dr. Patricia Fontaine
(pdf) |
Lewis and Clark to the California Gold Rush: From Sea to Shining Sea
Book Discussion Group
Blood and Thunder
By Hampton Sides |
Lewis and Clark,
Sacajawea,
Sam Brannan,
Levi Strauss,
Jedediah Smith,
John Fremont,
Kit Carson,
Stephen Kearney |
4/2 Module 5:
The anti-slavery debate in local and national politics
Lead Scholar:
Gray Fitzsimons
Walking Tour of Downtown Lowell (pdf)
map (pdf)
PPT (pdf)
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Lecture
Walking tour of Lowell; Visit to underground RR station and sites of abolitionist meetings |
Frederick Douglass; John Levy, William Lloyd Garrison,
Rev. Theodore Edson;
Sarah Clay; Rev. Orange Scott; Sarah G. Bagley;
John Greenleaf Whittier; William Robinson; Linus Child;
Benjamin Butler; Kirk Boott; Eliphalet Case;
Royal Southwick;
Nathan Appleton;
Amos A. Lawrence
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4/28 Module 6:
Development of the Industrial United States
Lead Scholar: National Park Service Staff |
The Importance of Whaling; East Indian Trade; and Salem, Massachusetts
Visit to Salem and the Peabody Essex Museum |
The Derby Family |