This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the war that Indian chief Pontiac launched against the British and Americans to push them out of Indian lands, in response to Americans continued settlement in Native American territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Francis J. Bremer, author of the biography John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father, traces the life of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the growing enslavement of Africans in America and the writing of slave codes to govern the practice.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the English Puritans search for a place to practice their religion freely. They settled and eventually thrived in present-day Massachusetts, but they suffered the hardships of building a new colony.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Maryland's establishment when King Charles I granted the land to Lord Baltimore, a devout Catholic. His appointment angered the Protestant population already settled in Maryland.
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Michael Ray narrates a basic introduction to indentured servitude and slavery in the North American colonies. The presentation looks at the transition from indentured servitude as the most common form of forced labor to the use of African slaves and the development of the slave trade. It includes excerpts from the oral history of a former slave.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the fear of witchcraft that grew rapidly throughout the colonies, especially in New England. Nineteen people were wrongfully convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA, and were executed.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the Great Awakening, which broke out in America when several new religious leaders, such as George Whitefield, emerged to revive the church. This brought about new ways of worshiping and ultimately new religious sects such as Baptists and Presbyterians.
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The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.
This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces elements of state constitutions, like branches of power and checks and balances, that were eventually incorporated into the national constitution.
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