| 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 |