Gilder Lehrman Resources
- Gilder Lehrman Homepage
- Sign up to be a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School (FREE, but necessary if you want to apply for seminars and access the primary sources collection)
- 2017 Seminar descriptions/dates/locations (2018 seminars will be announced in November!)
- Angie's Gilder Lehrman Seminar Application Essay feel free to use as inspiration, but plagiarism is bad, okay?
- Gilder Lehrman Primary Source Collection (must login for full access)
- History by Era resources (including primary sources) organized chronologically by eras and sub-eras
- Online Exhibitions collections of interactive sources organized topically (must login for full access)
Angie's Gilder Lehrman Experience
- Dr. Colin Calloway leading scholar and academic superstar with a dry sense of humor
- Colin's book we used as a text for the seminar (not an affiliate link, just a convenience link)
- The Unredeemed Captive another book we read for the seminar in preparation for our trip to Deerfield (again, not affiliate links, I promise I'm not trying to make money off of my fellow social studies teachers)
- List of resources for Native American History curated for our seminar by Dartmouth Librarian Amy Witzel (resources with a lock icon are only accessible on the Dartmouth campus)
- Lesson plans my fellow seminar attendees were gracious enough to share with us
Dartmouth Resources
- The Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth by Dr. Colin Calloway. Download FREE pdf or kindle version of the book!
- Dartmouth's Founder who created Dartmouth for “the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land ... and also of English Youth and any others.”
- Dartmouth President who reinvigorated Dartmouth's mission to educate Native Americans
- Dartmouth's Native American Program
- Native student outreach at Dartmouth: Native students can visit Dartmouth and interact with students and faculty before applying
- General Research Guide for Native American Studies from Dartmouth Library Some resources are available online, others are only available on location (but you can always google the titles and find them elsewhere...)
- Dartmouth Special Collections: Arctic Photographs
- Dartmouth Special Collections: Encyclopedia Arctica
- Lou's Restaurant and Bakery with cruller french toast to die for. Seriously, go there if you're in Hanover.
Native American History Resources Based on/Inspired by Colin's Recommendations
- Interactive Map of the Seizing of Native American Land
- Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History by, you guessed it, Colin Calloway
- Supreme Court Case: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831 Can Georgia assert jurisdiction over Indian country?
- Supreme Court Case: Worcester v. Georgia 1832 State jurisdiction over Indian country brought by a US citizen
- Supreme Court Case: Johnson v. McIntosh 1823 Sale of Indian land to non-natives
- Supreme Court Case: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock 1903 Congress has "plenary power" over Indian land and Indian affairs; Overturned Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia
- Supreme Court Case: Oliphant v. Suquamish 1978 Indian Tribal Courts have no jurisdiction over non-natives
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado by Elliot West
- Empire of the Summer Moon book that Colin does NOT recommend
- John Ross Cherokee Leader
- Susannah Willard Johnson English woman, Abenaki Captive
- Mary Jemison Seneca Captive
- Canandaigua Treaty 1794 Painting by Robert Griffing (annotated)
- George Washington Covenant Wampum Belt still in action today
- Native American Portraits by Karl Bodmer
- Native American Photographs by Edward Curtis
- Richard H. Pratt (Superintendent of Carlisle Boarding School) on the Education of Native Americans
- Chilocco Indian Boarding School (people from the Bering Strait Region attended this school) and Digitized Oklahoma Indian School Magazines
- Chemawa Indian School Some Brevig Mission Residents attended this school
- National Archives Resources on researching BIA schools