Browsing Americas Archive by Issue Date
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Spanish Catholic Missions and Border History
(2011-08-04)The Catholic missions of Spanish America are an integral part of U.S.-Mexico borderlands history. Using John Russell Bartlett’s Personal narrative of explorations & incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, volume 1, a 19th century document found in the Our Americas Archive Partnership, I discuss how the missions represent ... -
La madre mexicana: fragmento del libro, Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas
(2011-07-21)Este video es una lectura corta del libro Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas, con preguntas para reflexión para estudiantes de español. (This video provides a reading of a short Spanish excerpt followed by questions and vocabulary for Spanish students.) -
Introducción a un billete mexicano de diez pesos
(2011-07-08)Este video contextualiza a un billete de diez pesos mexicanos (1823) impreso sobre una bula católica (siglo 18), según la trayectoria de la historia de México. (This video contextualizes a ten pesos Mexican banknote (1823) printed on an eighteenth century Catholic bull, according to the timeline of Mexican history.) -
Our Americas Archive Partnership
(2011)A collection of pedagogical and research modules designed in conjunction with the Our Americas Archive Partnership, a collection of primary documents that suggest a hemispheric, rather than a strictly national, approach to American cultural studies. -
Americas Archive Document Introductions
(2011)This course contains modules offering substantial scholarly introductions to some of the documents in the Americas Archive (the James Cramp letters, the Ayers Braach letter, the Independence of Texas document, and the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence). It will provide viewers interested in these elements the archive more information than is ... -
Revolution and War in the Hemisphere
(2011)This course offers AP history and English teachers teaching material for studying different wars throughout the Western Hemisphere. The collection is organized into three major sub-folders: Caribbean and Latin American independence movements, the U.S. Civil War, and the U.S.-Mexican War. Each sub-folder has two or more modules or pedagogical essays ... -
Travel Literature and History
(2011)This collection provides modules on different forms of travel. It includes lessons on transported labor and slavery, travel journals, travel fiction, migration, and U.S. imperialism in hemispheric and transatlantic travel. Literature teachers could use this course or individual modules within it to help teach literary genres such as the slave narrative ... -
Using Historical Documents
(2011)This course provides useful ways and materials from which to discuss historical records, documentation, print culture, and rare materials for AP history teachers. Teachers and students could use these modules to discuss and learn about different forms of historical research and historiography. -
Catholic Missions and Spanish Colonialism
(2011)This course offers a series of modules through which AP history teachers can introduce histories of Spanish colonialism and Catholic missionary work in the Americas. Topics include colonial economies, Mexican-American border history, and race relations. Major historical themes from AP history curriculum include American diversity, American identity, ... -
Slavery in the Americas
(2011)This course includes modules that AP history and literature teachers can use to introduce students to slavery within a broader hemispheric context. It includes discussions of slave sales, labor, gender, rebellion, and revolution. This course or the individual modules within it could help supplement sections of American studies courses concerned with ... -
Spanish Language/Clase de lenguaje
(2011)This collection includes modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the AP or introductory college Spanish language classroom. It includes lesson plans, reading passages, and resources that emphasize the Spanish language using culture and historical material. -
The Atlantic Ocean and Hemispheric Histories
(2011)This course includes a variety of modules concerning the Atlantic World and Atlantic economies. It allows students to study how the networks of the Atlantic intersected and overlapped with those of the Western Hemisphere. Topics include colonial economies, agriculture, slavery, gender, and anti-slavery print culture. This course also covers majors ... -
Yellow Fever: Medicine in the Western Hemisphere
(2011)This course provides a series of modules that discuss yellow fever, disease, the building of the Panama Canal, and health care in the U.S. South and throughout the hemisphere. History teachers could include this course or individual modules from this selection in sections covering the development of the West in the late nineteenth century, urban ... -
Glossaries and vocabulary lists
(2011)This collection contains resources such as glossaries and vocabulary lists that were created for use with historical documents found in the free Our Americas Archive Partnership site. They were written for high school AP Spanish students and college students. -
Spanish Literature/Literatura en español
(2011)This collection includes modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the AP or introductory college Spanish language classroom. It includes lesson plans, reading passages, and resources such as glossaries, that can be used for classroom activities, homework, and special projects to emphasize culture and authentic material. -
Print Culture in the Americas
(2011)This course includes modules discussing the print materials surrounding slavery and abolition, the plagiarism of historical materials, historical advertisements, and the circulation of texts throughout the Americas. It could also supplement sections such as the U.S. Civil War, and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power AP history and literature ... -
Hispanic Culture for the Spanish Classroom
(2011)This collection includes cultural-themed modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the introductory Spanish language classroom (high school and college). It includes reading passages and lesson plans that emphasize Hispanic culture through authentic material (such as photographs, images, letters, documents, etc.), available for free on the Our ... -
Introduction to Hemispheric Studies
(2011)This module provides a brief introduction to hemispheric studies. It works through examples of how a hemispheric approach can be employed and overviews the direction of the field. Finally, this modules discusses the hemispheric approach of the Our Americas Archive Partnership and the type of documents it holds. -
Discovering U.S. Empire through the Archive
(2010)This module explores 19th-century relations between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the U.S. and Native Americans through the travel journal of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas. -
The Civil War Through Contemporary Accounts: The Diary of Alexander Hobbs
(2010)Using the wartime diary of Alexander Hobbs, this module explores how teachers and scholars can approach the Civil War on the Gulf Coast.
