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All sessions 9-3:00 PM

Sessions are concurrent. We are expecting 40 -45 people per session so plan ahead if there are readings that need to be sent out or photocopied.  There will be a pretest but of my creation using AP test questions.

Content Focus Leaders

6/25 Module 1:
@ O’Leary 222
Three Worlds Meet: Africa, Europe and Americas

Lead Scholar:
Dr. Christoph Strobel

Repeat Friday, June 26th

Patterns and Change of Indigenous Societies; Cultural and Ecological Interactions among Europeans, Africans and Native Americans

Massasoit,
Metacomet,
Waban of the Natick Praying Towns,
Mary Jemison,
Vargas,
Pope
Lowell leaders:
Passaconaway, Wannalancit

6/25 Module 2:
@ Wannalancit Mills
Colonization and Settlement

Lead Scholar:
Dr. Sean Condon

Repeat Friday, June 26th

Jamestown, Plimoth and St. Augustine: Different Motives and Different Rewards;

Colonial Life: Characteristics and Culture; Puritans: A Utopian Society

John Smith,
John Rolfe,
John Winthrop,
Cotton Mather,

7/1 Module 3:
Revolution and the New Nation

Lead Scholar:
National Park Service Staff

The Legacy of John Adams

Visit to Adams National Park

John and Abigail Adams

6/29 Module 7
@ O'Leary 222
The Emergence of Modern America

Lead Scholar:
Dr. Chad Montrie

Repeat 6/26

The New Negro, Garvy, and the UNITA (ppt 344k)

Pacifism, Rustin, and CORE (ppt 216k)

Comparing the Mexican American Experience
(ppt 12k)

Garvey UNITA Speech 
(mp3 1mb)

Louis Armstrong Struttin  (mp3 3mb)

I Have a Dream (mp3 5mb)

Civil Rights

Henry Cisneros
Marcus Garvey
Bayard Rustin
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

6/29 & 30 Module 8:
@ Wannalancit
World War II

Lead Scholar:
Dr. Patricia Fontaine

America at War: The Home-front

Reading: Our Mother’s War by Emily Yellin

Women
African Americans
Girl Swing Bands

Negro Baseball League
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