Fall 2019
Primary source worksheets from the National Archives—scroll to the bottom and select from the list at lower right. These can help you make sense of photos, artwork, artifacts, documents, etc.
From the Counseling Services website:
Individual counseling at Boise State Counseling Services are short and solution focused. In these sessions, you’ll have the chance to work one-on-one with a counselor in a confidential setting to address personal issues that may be psychological, developmental, behavioral, social, or academic in nature. Personal issues commonly addressed in short-term counseling are:
Other issues may include effects of trauma, sexual assault, abuse, spirituality, body image, concerns with alcohol and other drugs, and healthy lifestyle choices.
In your first session, your counselor will help identify your immediate concerns and collaborate with you on a treatment plan tailored to meet your needs. If it is determined that your needs are greater than what Counseling Services has the capacity to provide we will work with you on getting connected to a community provider who can more adequately support you.
Slave Voyages, a database that holds records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American trade in enslaved people. It also offers the African Names Database, which “displays the African name, age, gender, origin, country, and places of embarkation and disembarkation of each individual.” You can explore image galleries there as well.
If you’re studying to be a teacher, you can find educational materials accompanying the 1619 project at the Pulitzer Center website.
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience: You can use the member list to find Sites of Conscience, each of whose websites might reveal some U.S. American historical figures who were upstanders.
Download the handout of group activities
Ana Fota, “What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It”
Photos from Central Church’s Ancient Burial Ground, Hartford, CT:
Download the handout for this activity.
As we see in the primary sources for today’s class, there’s a long history of white Europeans and Americans describing indigenous Americans in ways that are personally, politically, and economically useful to white people. Their descriptions of indigenous peoples have led many historians, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others to delve into how colonizers have constructed whiteness.
This conversation continues today in both scholarly and popular circles. Just yesterday, even though he does not reference Native peoples, Idaho state Representative Chad Christensen posted on Facebook about the What Does It Mean to Be White? book circles at Boise State. In his post and in the comments on it, Christensen and his overwhelmingly white followers grapple with what it means to be white, and they characterize others—”Hispanics,” “Black colleges,” “mixed races black and Hispanic and something else,” as well as faculty and professional staff at Boise State—in opposition to themselves, and they do so in ways that suggest they have a fairly clear, albeit largely unarticulated, sense of what it means to be white in 21st-century Idaho.
Resources mentioned in class: