Chapter Resources

Exchanges between John Smith and Powhatan

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http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/colonial/indians/exchange.html

The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

Excerpt: Description of native peoples and customs

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Full text: http://books.google.com/books?id=3R0OAAAAIAAJ

Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto

Excerpt: Description of Florida

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Full text: http://books.google.com/books?id=mYZJAAAAIAAJ

Exploration of the Hohokam, Arizona Museum of Natural History

http://www.azmnh.org/arch/hohokam.aspx

Chaco Canyon NPS Museum Collection

http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/chcu/index1.html

Journey of Mankind

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting, Heads of Chapters

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Excerpt from the narrative of Pedro de Castañeda, Part II, "Chapter 8, which describes some remarkable things that were seen on the plains, with a description of the bulls," from The Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542, edited and translated by George Parker Winship, pages 541–544. Online through Google Books.

https://books.google.com/books?id=sAcTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA541

Samuel de Champlain, The Voyages of 1604, excerpt available at:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/samuel-de-champlain-voyages-1604.php

Full text: https://books.google.com/books?id=PdcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21

Virtual Museum of New France

http://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/

Virtual Recreation of Jamestown

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/ 

California Missions Resource Center

http://www.missionscalifornia.com/

Johannes Megapolensis, 1644, Living Among the Mohawk

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mohawks.htm

Iroquois Confederacy Constitution

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/iroquois.asp

William H. Ashley's 1825 Rocky Mountain Papers

http://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/ashintro.html

Letter on the deerskin trade, 1797, from Letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1806, Volume 9

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John Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709), online through Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Passages on deerskins and trade can be found on pages 22–24 and 123–124.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lawson/lawson.html

Indians and the Fur Trade (Newberry Library)

http://publications.newberry.org/indiansofthemidwest/people-places-time/eras/fur-trade/

New Netherland                                                                     

http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/

Horses in Nebraska

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0300/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0300/stories/0301_0111.html

The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of the Washington and Chesapeake Region, ca. 1600–1925, excerpts from Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/colonial/virginia/staple.html

Invoice of rice sales for Anthony Clarkson, 1762 Oct. 30, The South Carolina Historical Society

http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:51568

Excerpts from Louis Hughes, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (1897), National Humanities Center

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text3/plantationhughes.pdf

Detailed description of colonial cultivation methods for tobacco (National Park Service)

http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/tobacco-colonial-cultivation-methods.htm

Farming at Mount Vernon

http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/farming/

Mapping History, University of Oregon

The Spread of Cotton, 1790–1860: http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US18-01.html

The Spread of Slavery, 1790–1860: http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US18-02.html

Combined map: http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/US/US18-03.html

Dean Hall Plantation Berkeley County Photograph Collection Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina)

http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/bcp/id/54/rv/singleitem/rec/1

Scenes on a Cotton Plantation, engraving from Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1867

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/ahd/slavery2b.html

Diorama of Forest Clearing c. 1830, Harvard Forest, Harvard University

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/dioramas/height-forest-clearing-and-agriculture

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 27 April 1809 (Library of Congress)

In this letter, Jefferson discusses the Empire of Liberty and western expansion

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/149.html

Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress on Indian Removal, 1830 (National Archives)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=25&page=transcript

Andrew Roy on the Avondale Coal Disaster, 1869

http://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/gildedage/content/Avondale

Building the Erie Canal

http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york/videos/building-the-erie-canal

The Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World

http://invasionofamerica.ehistory.org/

Cultural Views of the Concord River

http://lowelllandtrust.org/greenwayclassroom/history/culturalviews.htm

The Domestic Slave Trade – The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=3

Simeon A. Howe Letters, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections

Howe was a cook for the Union Army, and many of his letters speak to the conditions of food as well as the desolate landscape

http://civilwar.archives.msu.edu/collection/7-1C-45/howe/

Sarah E. Thompson Papers, 1859–1898, Duke University

A series of letters by a woman who helped recruit Union sympathizers in a predominately Confederate area in Tennessee

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/thompson/sarahindex.html

Capt. Addeman, Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops, Civil War Trust

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/reminiscences-of-two-years.html

Samuel Cabble Letter, Civil War Trust (by a member of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry)

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/samuel-cabble-letter.html

Voices of the Civil War, Library of Congress 

http://blogs.loc.gov/civil-war-voices/about/

Photo Essay: “Wounded Warriors: Civil War Amputation,” Civil War Monitor

http://www.civilwarmonitor.com/photo-essays/album?albumid=1007

Civil War Surgeon's Kits, Samford University Library

http://library.samford.edu/about/sc/treasure/surgeonkit.html

Interactive Picture of Hardtack

http://encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00001772mets.xml

Backstory with the American History Guys, "Heart of the Stranger that Hovered Near," a podcast on Walt Whitman's experiences caring for the sick during the Civil War

http://backstoryradio.org/shows/heart-of-the-stranger-that-hovered-near/

Robert Baird, View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrants and Travellers’ Guide to the West, 1832 (digitized book)

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3637333

The journal of Abigail Jane Scott

A woman’s account of her wagon train travel to Oregon

http://oregondigital.org/u?/Manuscripts,108

Joe Meek, The River of the West, 1870.

This narrative by a fur trapper includes accounts of the Oregon Trail, settlement, and the massacre of the Whitmans

http://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/jmeek/

New Perspectives on the West

Extensive collection of primary sources used in support of Ken Burns’ 1996 documentary The West (covering all of the 19th century)

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/index.htm

Chinese Laborers in the West

Images and history of Chinese workers in the West

http://apa.si.edu/ongoldmountain/gallery2/gallery2.html

Lecture by Dr. Jeff Crane on the Johnson County Range War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_LJfLXFu8

William Temple Hornaday, Our Vanishing Wildlife (1913)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13249/13249-h/13249-h.htm

Essay about Gifford Pinchot from the Forest History Society. Includes links to primary sources written by Pinchot.

http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/people/Pinchot/Pinchot.aspx

Joel Tarr, “The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh,” Journal of Urban History, Vol. 28, No. 5, July 2002, 511 –545.

http://www.esf.edu/cue/documents/Tarr_metab.pdf

A scholarly article about cities, waste, and energy.

Restore Hetch Hetchy Resource Library

http://www.hetchhetchy.org/resource_library

Includes primary sources on the Hetch Hetchy debate

Website on Hull House

http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hullhouse.html

Evergreen State: Exploring the History of Washington’s Forests (Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington)

An in-depth web site on Washington State Forests, logging, and related issues. Includes images, secondary source material, bibliography, and links to other websites.

http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Evergreen%20State/Evergreen%20Main.html

Secondary source: Jarod Roll, "Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri, Southern Spaces, March 16, 2010.

http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/out-yonder-road-working-class-self-representation-and-1939-roadside-demonstration-southeast-mis

A scholarly article dealing with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Primary source: March 1933 issue of the journal of the U.S. Biological Survey

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/history/survey-3a.pdf

Reclaiming the Everglades (Florida International University)

http://everglades.fiu.edu/DCC/everglades/reclaim/collections/index.htm

This archive of digitized documentary evidence spans the years 1884 to 1934 and covers topics such as the establishment of the Everglades National Park, Native American land rights, agriculture, urban development, endangered species, invasive plants, and the role of women in the modern conservation movement.

Grand Coulee Dam (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/coulee/

This website accompanying the documentary Grand Coulee Dam (2012) provides a great selection of primary and secondary resources on the building of the Grand Coulee Dam

Voices from the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html

A collection of secondary and primary sources related to California labor camps through the American Memory Site at the Library of Congress. Links digitally to other related materials.

Secondary source: The Dust Bowl (PBS, 2012)

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/watch-videos/#2250514396

Primary source: The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936)

https://archive.org/details/plow_that_broke_the_plains

A classic video produced during the New Deal about agriculture and the Dust Bowl.

Digitized documents about resource conservation and agriculture for civilians during World War II

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/isl3/searchterm/conservation/field/subjec/mode/all/conn/and

Ration Coupons on the Home Front, 1942–1945 (Duke University Libraries)

Website with digitized ration cards from World War II.

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hfc/

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources (The National Security Archive)

An outstanding website of primary resources about the atomic bomb program.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm

The Great Plains During World War II

Numerous essays and primary sources about life on the Great Plains during the war. This site includes material about the impact of the war on agriculture.

http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/homefront/index.html

Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942–1964 (National Museum of American History)

A website with material on the Bracero program that began during World War II.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/bittersweet-harvest-bracero-program-1942-1964

Rachel Carson (PBS)

This site includes numerous materials and links related to Rachel Carson.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/profile.html

Video from 1947 about suburbs and Levittown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJUVPoCP78

                                                                                                                                                         

Car commericals from the 1950s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8857WvWyQ

Chlordane commercial from the 1950s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Lr1pCEcNU

Swanson Turkey T.V. Dinner commercial from the 1950s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyIeS6SPGM

Snickers commercial from the 1950s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyn9_6pv80

Harvest of Shame (Edward Murrow/CBS)

A 1960 newscast on conditions for farmworkers (1 hour).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTVF_dya7E

“Agent Orange’s Long Legacy, for Vietnam and Veterans,” New York Times, May 11, 2014.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/us/agent-oranges-long-legacy-for-vietnam-and-veterans.html

1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill

This website includes secondary and primary source material on this spill.

http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~dhardy/1969_Santa_Barbara_Oil_Spill/Home.html

Agent Orange Record

A a website on Agent Orange use and long term impact.

http://www.agentorangerecord.com/agent_orange_history/

A short video about Lake Erie pollution in the 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDPqtj3DJE

Earth Day CBS news segment with Walter Cronkite, 1970.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbwC281uzUs

1969 video of American soldiers in Vietnam spraying chemicals to remove foliage.

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=987VI0672

This piece from the Klamath Bucket Brigade looks at conflict over water use and endangered species protection on the Klamath River of Oregon

http://klamathbucketbrigade.org/KBB_PositionontheKlamathBasinRestorationAgreement101711.htm

“Modern-Day Slavery Museum reveals cruelty in Florida fields,” Tampa Bay Times, March 20, 2010

This article discusses a museum exploring slavery in the agricultural economy of Florida in the current era

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/modern-day-slavery-museum-reveals-cruelty-in-florida-fields/1081253

Piece and podcast from the Heartland Institute (a conservative organization) arguing for the need to use more fossil fuels to fight global poverty

http://blog.heartland.org/2014/10/kathleen-hartnett-white-fossil-fuels-the-moral-case/

The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

Website on eutrophication and dead zones

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/index.html

EPA videos about Environmental Justice

http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/events/20th-anniversary.html#videos

Photo gallery showing the process of oyster reef restoration in Florida

http://martincountycoastal.org/project_gallery.html

Map showing Louisiana’s master plan for coastal restoration (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

http://media.nola.com/environment/photo/map-masterplan1-011212jpg-59776a9109e9b99c.jpg

GIS map of Louisiana restoration projects

http://sonris-www.dnr.state.la.us/gis/agsweb/IE/JSViewer/index.html?TemplateID=21

National Geographic, “Signs From Earth: The Big Thaw”

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/big-thaw/

NBC News report on methane releases in the ocean

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14670511-climate-changing-methane-rapidly-destabilizing-off-east-coast-study-finds?lite

Fox News segment with John Stossel on climate change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnpuRPfQxU

John Stossel is a pundit working for Fox News who has served as their primary point man in denying climate change. While he originally argued against the science of climate change, part of the effort at Astroturfing on the issue, he then moved to arguing against humanity’s culpability in climate change. By 2014, he began arguing that climate change would have a beneficial effect on food production.