<i>Engaging the American Past</i >












Summer Institute

We the Diverse People: Cultural Encounters in the Pacific Northwest

2004 Summer Institute Readings


Saturday, June 5 | Saturday, June 26 | Monday, June 28 | Tuesday, June 29


 

Saturday, June 5 Readings:

Linda Levstick and Keith C. Barton, Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. "Diversity in American History."

Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Chapters 1 and 8.

Rosie Turner-Bisset, "Serving Maids and Literacy: An Approach to Teaching Literacy through History and Music." Reading April 2001.

 

Saturday, June 26 Readings:


Keith Barton, "A Picture’s Worth: Analyzing Historical Photographs in the Elementary Grades.” Social Education 65 (5).

Bruce Larson, “Three Approaches for Teaching American History in Elementary School: Inquiry Based Learning, Working with Primary Sources, and Student Authored Biographies.” available here...

Liping Zhu, "No Need to Rush: the Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment." Montana: the Magazine of Western History Autumn 1999.

 

Monday, June 28 Readings:

Jacqueline Peterson, Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West Norman: University of Okalhom Press, 1993.

 

Tuesday, June 29 Readings:

Darrell Millner. “George Bush of Tumwater: Founder of the First American Colony on Puget Sound.” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History.   Washington State Historical Society. Winter 1995/95.

Darrell Millner. "The Death of Markus Lopius: Fact or Fantasy? First Documented Presence of a Black Man in Oregon August 16, 1788.”   Trotter Institute Review.   William Monroe Trotter Institute University of Massachusetts at Boston. Summer 1991, 19-22.

Darrell Millner. “York of the Corps of Discovery: Interpretations of York's Character and his Role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.” Oregon Historical Society. Fall 2003, 302-333.

Garraty, John A.  and Mark C. Carnes. George Washington (15 Aug. 1817-26 Aug. 1905)   American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999, 766-67.

Neville, Paul.   “The Ghost of Markus Lopius.” The Register-Guard. Sunday, February 5, 1995, 1E-2E.

The Organic and Other Laws of Oregon (1843-1872).   Eugene Semple, State Printer, 1874;   A.L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco; Oregon Historical Society, p.440 Criminal Code.- Title II of Crime and Their Punishments, Paragraph 689, 690, 691.


Summer Institue Readings

Themes and topics explored in the 2003 Summer Institute can be found here.


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