jroche created the site History 301 - American Business History
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Welcome, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
Welcome to the U.S. Experience to 1877 course. Please set up your account by Wednesday, August 28. I will add all of you to the course on Thursday, August 29.
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Bolek - Response Paper, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
After reading both “Facing East from Indian Country” and chapter one in “Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction,” I noticed many similarities between the two but a very distinct difference in the way in which […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Tummalapalli Response Paper , on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
Eero Saarinen an American architecht and industrial designer built the Eero Saarinens gateway arch in an urban national park. It has a musuem at the top that depicts the impact of the Euro American conquest on […]
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Kabria Baumgartner commented on the post, Handsome Lake, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
Stephen, I appreciate your response here. However, your response is supposed to be on Richter’s introduction and Alan Taylor’s introduction and first chapter. Please repost.
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Rosenheck Response Paper, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
The first permanent English settlers to colonize North America are to
said to be the settlers of Jamestown. However, this settlement was
perceived for a longtime by historians as a failure and was dismissed […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Kosowatz Response Paper, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
After reading both texts, I found it very interesting that Jamestown was not the quaint, little establishment it has been made out to be. While Many people think of Jamestown as a successful establishment that […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Brown Response Paper, on the site U.S. Experience to 1877
Chapter 4 of American Slavery, American Freedom gives an in depth look at the establishment of the Jamestown colony. The chapter illustrates the hardships the colonists faced, from starvation to Indian raids. I […]
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jroche created the site The Dust Bowl: Ecological Disaster in the American Imagination
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Godbeer (Elyse), on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer
Protestant reformers had been urging Elizabeth I to strictly enforce laws against premarital sex. Upon her death in 1603, they seized their opportunity to […]
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jroche wrote a new post, Hive City, on the site Writing Race & Place
Apartheid means “separate.” When the Afrikaner Regime began the final implementation of its racist white supremacist state, it put into place a series of laws designed not only to segregate the white Afrikaner […]
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jroche wrote a new post, No Answers, on the site Writing Race & Place
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Kara Morrow wrote a new post, Voices in Retrospect, on the site Writing Race & Place
I’m finding that our experiences here in South Africa only find meaning in retrospect as we have the opportunity to reflect and compare. Friday began with a lecture by Charles Villa Vencencio on the Truth and […]
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jroche wrote a new post, Bourbons, on the site Writing Race & Place
The quote attributed to Lord Talleyrand is perhaps a tad overused, but as I grabbed a copy of the Cape Times on our way out of Little Scotia on the last day, one article in particular grabbed my attention and […]
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jroche created the site History 301 - American Business History
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Empires, on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
Alan Taylor, Colonial America: A Short Introduction, Chapter 8: “Empires”
This chapter tells the story of British and Spanish colonization.
Nearly a century of conflict between Britain and France over North […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Group Questions, on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
1. Why does it appear that prostitution grew rapidly in late eighteenth century America?
2. How did courtship practices evolve in colonial America? Be sure to think about change over time. Do we have courtship […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Potential Research Topics, on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
You all have proposed such exciting research topics for a final project! I have tried to categorize your interests, broadly speaking, so that you may link up, if you wish. (Yes
Native Americans & […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Defining Power, on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
Here is our collective definition of “power.” Power is the capacity to exert influence and/or control over yourself, people, and animate and inanimate beings.
We should also think of power as multi-dimensional, […]
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Kabria Baumgartner wrote a new post, Research Links, on the site Sex & Power in Colonial America
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