Carpetbaggers
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the term, "carpetbagger," used frequently after the Civil War but often misunderstood.
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Governor John Sevier Home [TN]
Description
John Sevier (1745-1815), early pioneer, Indian fighter, governor of the failed State of Franklin, and first governor of Tennessee, built a plantation home, which he called Marble Springs, when he came to the state capital, Knoxville, in 1796. The site had been a way station for travelers along the road to Knoxville. He and his wife, Bonny Kate, lived at Marble Springs until his death. The only original building, the two-story main cabin, has been restored and furnished with Sevier family items and other frontier pieces. Additions include a kitchen, a loom house, a smokehouse, a spring house, and a barn. The Walker Cabin, circa 1830, has been moved to the site and features artifacts and a video presentation.
A second website for the site can be found here.
The site offers a short film, tours, workshops, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
Teacher Institute in Early American History
Description
Designed for middle/high school social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, this intensive week-long workshop will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown. 25 teachers and a returning mentor teacher will be selected for each session. Participants will be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with colonial American history as the focus. Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with noted historians, meet character interpreters, and take part in reenactments of 18th-century events. They will review various interactive teaching techniques with a mentor teacher and with each other. Instructional materials in a variety of media will be provided to participants to use in their classrooms. Together with Colonial Williamsburg staff, teachers will prepare new instructional materials for use in their own classrooms.
Contact name
McKee, Amanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Colonial Williamsburg
Phone number
757-565-8417
Target Audience
7-12
Start Date
Cost
$1900
Course Credit
Three graduate credit hours available from the University of San Diego
Duration
Eight days
End Date
Teacher Institute in Early American History
Description
Designed for elementary social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, this intensive week-long workshop will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown. 25 teachers and a returning mentor teacher will be selected for each session. Participants will be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with colonial American history as the focus. Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with noted historians, meet character interpreters, and take part in reenactments of 18th-century events. They will review various interactive teaching techniques with a mentor teacher and with each other. Instructional materials in a variety of media will be provided to participants to use in their classrooms. Together with Colonial Williamsburg staff, teachers will prepare new instructional materials for use in their own classrooms.
Contact name
McKee, Amanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Colonial Williamsburg
Phone number
757-565-8417
Target Audience
Elementary
Start Date
Cost
$1900
Course Credit
Three graduate credit hours available from the University of San Diego
Contact Title
McKee, Amanda
Duration
Eight days
End Date
Teacher Institute in Early American History
Description
Designed for elementary social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, this intensive week-long workshop will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown. 25 teachers and a returning mentor teacher will be selected for each session. Participants will be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with colonial American history as the focus. Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with noted historians, meet character interpreters, and take part in reenactments of 18th-century events. They will review various interactive teaching techniques with a mentor teacher and with each other. Instructional materials in a variety of media will be provided to participants to use in their classrooms. Together with Colonial Williamsburg staff, teachers will prepare new instructional materials for use in their own classrooms.
Contact name
McKee, Amanda
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Colonial Williamsburg
Phone number
757-565-8417
Target Audience
Elementary
Start Date
Cost
$1900
Course Credit
Three graduate credit hours available from the University of San Diego
Duration
Eight days
End Date
Jamestown
Description
Dr. Karen Kupperman of New York University looks at contact between Native Americans and English colonists at Jamestown, focusing on what is known about either side's perceptions of the other.
To view this podcast, select "Podcast" under the September 7th listing.
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Pocahontas and the Children Exchange
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes an arrangement at Jamestown settlement in Virginia, in which both the English and Indians exchanged young children, including Pocahontas, in order to learn more about each other's culture and language. This arrangement fathered a cultural exchange between the two groups.
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Virginia
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, in 1607. The first years were extremely difficult for the colonists, under the leadership of John Smith. Food was scarce and relations with the Native Americans were tense.
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Virginians and Indians
Description
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the colony of Jamestown's struggles to survive, as tense relations with local Indians erupt into the First and Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars of the early and mid-1600s.
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Spring Green Preservation Fund [NC]
Description
The Spring Green Preservation Fund is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and fully restoring the Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church, which is located in Cary, NC. The church was originally built in 1879, and today also holds an associated building and cemetary. The church is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The location is currently under renovation, but will offer tours of the church and its associated cemetary upon completion. The site offers an extensive year-by-year photo gallery showing the evolution of the restoration of the church, along with visitor information and a brief history of the church.
Not yet open to the public.