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On Line-Articles on Pedagogy

A Talk Concerning First Beginnings: Teaching Native American Oral Literature, by Andrew Wiget

Beyond the Anthology: Sources for Teaching Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Colonial Spanish Literature of North America, by E. Thomson Shields

Recovering the Colonial, Beginning Again: Toward Multiculturalism in the Teaching of Early American Studies, by Carla Mulford

Society of Early Americanists Teaching Panels, ALA Conferences

Archival Research and Editing in the Early American Classroom, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University

Abstract: Archival Research and Editing in the Early American Classroom, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University

Blogging the Early American Novel, Lisa Logan, University of Central Florida

Handout: Blogging the Early American Novel, Lisa Logan, University of Central Florida

Reconceptualizing the Early American Literature Survey Term Paper, Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Searching for Childhood, Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Transcribing Quaker-Native Manuscripts, 1796-1801, Keat Murray, Swarthmore College

Additional Resources -- Bibliographies and Sources Compiled from the SEA list-serv

“Early American Adaptations,” Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Please click on the link below for “the compilation of early American texts / authors / topics and their later--mostly contemporary--revisions and revisitations. Hope this is helpful as we put together our fall syllabi or consider new course offerings in the future. Thanks to everyone for all the responses,” Zabelle Stodola. Early American Adaptations

“Scenes of Instruction in Early America,” Daphna Atias, University of Michigan

Please click on the link for the compilation of early American pedagogy sources: Bibliography – Scenes of Instruction in Early America

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!

 

 

Sequoyah

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.