Primary Source Board
Please see the instructions in the attached word document(PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND SEE THE SAMPLE SO THAT YOU CAN DO THE SAME FORMAT OF THE SAMPLE BUT NOT THE TOPIC). Also, The rest of the documents that are attached, you will be using them for this assignment. Thank you!
NOTE: When you are doing this assignment, please choose an image from a website that I can easily embed the image because last time you got an image from the Wikipedia website, and it did not embed the image. Thank you!
This week, we focus our primary sources from the late 18th and early 19th century (1790-1840). Select any topic from this week or even next week (the early United States through the development of democracy and western expansion in the 1820s-1840s). PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED VIDEO AS IT IS WAS ONE OUR TOPICS FROM THIS WEEK, SO PLEASE DO THIS ASSIGNMENT BASED ON THAT VIDEO! Then look on the web to find a visual primary source (a painting, statue, building, printed book) from these centuries that you find interesting. Post it here and tell us something about it, and which part of the material it relates to. Give us artist/author, title, date, a live link to where you found it (the web page with information, not the image itself), plus your comment on how it could provide evidence for this era.
· General Guidelines:
Your source must be about something tied to U.S. History from 1790-1840
It must be a primary source and not a secondary source, so it must have been painted/made/written within at most 20-30 or maybe 50 years at most of the event it is depicting. It CANNOT be from hundreds of years after the event.
The date you provide MUST be from when the object/painting/document is produced, not when the subject of the image takes place.
You must provide a live (clickable) link to the site where you retrieved the image and the image must be visible on the page, if I click on the link and cannot see your image your grade will be marked down.
The commentary cannot just describe the source, it MUST explain how the source relates to the course material, please see the Learning Unit for this week.
It cannot be the same/very similar to any image I have used in the course, such as the sample below, images used in the powerpoint presentation or the course video clips.
This assignment is primarily about posting visual sources, if you decide to post a written source you MUST post an image of the original document (which needs to come from the assigned era, and you also MUST provided an extended excerpt (at least one paragraph if not several) from the document.
You may NOT upload your image to canvas and then link from it there since that can cause issues where some people cannot view the image, you need to embed the image using a link to the original site where you found it. If you are uncertain about how to do this please see the course help page.
***PLEASE SEE THE SAMPLE BELOW SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE FORMAT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT. DO NOT COPY THE TOPIC OF THE SAMPLE PLEASE. THANK YOU!
Here is a sample:
Artist: John Bower
Title: A VIEW of the BOMBARDMENT of Fort McHenry
Date: 1819
Retrieved from
https://oldprintgallery.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/war-of-1812-exhibit-at-the-old-print-shop/ (Links to an external site.)
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore (Links to an external site.)
Comment: This engraving recounts part of the Battle of Baltimore during the war of 1812. Although there were not many decisive battles during the war between the British and the Americans (most of the fighting was actually between the Americans and the Native Americans who rose up in part due to British encouragement) this was one of the battles along the American coast. Our National Anthem was produced in response to this battle, which took place in 1814.
Sites for U.S. History 1 Primary Sources
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Digital Collections | Library of Congress (Links to an external site.)
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Smithsonian’s History Explorer (Links to an external site.)
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Docs Teach, from the National Archives (Links to an external site.)
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Smithsonian Source, from the Smithsonian Institute (Links to an external site.)
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The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library (Links to an external site.)
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Colonial Williamsburg (Links to an external site.)
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Civil War Primary Source Documents (Links to an external site.)
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The Gilder Lehrman Collection | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (Links to an external site.)
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Browse The NYPL Digital Picture Collection(P) (Links to an external site.)
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Primary Source Sets | Teacher Resources – Library of Congress (Links to an external site.)
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Edison Motion Pictures Collection Part One 1891-1898 : The Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (Links to an external site.)
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About this Collection – Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies | Collections | Library of Congress (Links to an external site.)
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Photogrammar (Links to an external site.)
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Flickr: Internet Archive Book Images’ Photostream (Links to an external site.)
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Family Limitation | South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) (Links to an external site.)
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Welcome · Digital Public Library of America (Links to an external site.)
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Periods | Collection of Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (Links to an external site.)
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American Memory from the Library of Congress – Home Page (Links to an external site.)
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National Archives: Online Public Access (Links to an external site.)
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New York Times Article Archive – NYTimes.com (Links to an external site.)
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National Jukebox LOC.gov (Links to an external site.)
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Shorpy Historical Photo Archive | Vintage Fine Art Prints (Links to an external site.)
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Prelinger Archives : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (Links to an external site.)
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Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online (Links to an external site.)
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American History In Video: Browse Newsreels (Links to an external site.)
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Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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