Documents and Debates: Chapter 1: Early Contact
Looking for thematic primary sources for your classroom? Teaching American History can help! We’ve developed the two-volume Documents and Debates Collection to illustrate the issues at stake in some of the […]
1688: The Germantown Quakers Protest Slavery
While the seventeenth century is in the news again this week thanks to the 1619 project, we thought we would draw attention to the efforts of some early American Quakers […]
Junípero Serra, Gaspar de Portolá, and the Spanish Conquest of California
Father Junípero Serra (1713–1784) founded the first Catholic “mission” in what is now present-day California 250 years ago, in July of 1769. To Serra, the enterprise was indeed a mission […]
400th Anniversary of Landing of African Slaves at Jamestown
In late August 1619, John Rolfe tells us that the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. These Africans had been captured from present-day Angola by Portuguese […]