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Content Focus Leaders

2/2 Module 2:
Colonization and Settlement


Lead Scholar:
Dr. Sean Condon
(pdf)
(ppt)

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


Photoshop Editing

 

2/24 Module 5:
Civil War and Reconstruction


Lead Scholar:
Dr. Michael Millner
(links)

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

 

3/2 Technology
Research and information:
John Wren

*Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Photoshop editing.

Photoshop Advanced

 

3/9 Module 4:
Expansion and Reform


Lead Scholar:
Dr. Robert Forrant

Voices of Immigrants-Voices of Reform
Lecture and visit to Tsongas Industrial Center

(Immigrant workshop)
 

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)

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

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
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