Resources 2010–2011
Workshop—Underground Railroad with Amrita Myers
Session Videos
November 5th
Workshop—Underground Railroad with Amrita Myers
Monroe County History Center, 4–6 p.m.
November 6th—Noon–11:15 p.m.
Meet at Noon at Bloomington High School North for Charter bus ride to Indianapolis
Indiana History Center: 1:30–4:15 p.m.
Benjamin Harrison House: 4:30–5:15 p.m.
Dinner: Indianapolis, 5:45–6:45 p.m.
Arrive and check in at Conner Prairie at 7:15
Group 1 at Conner Prairie and “North Star” experience, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Group 2 at Conner Prairie and “North Star” experience, 7:45–9:15 p.m.
Bus ride home: 9:15–11:15 p.m.!
Indiana History Center
IHS maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest and presents a unique set of visitor experiences called the Indiana Experience.
Benjamin Harrison House
The President Benjamin Harrison Home is the former residence of President Benjamin Harrison (1889 to 1893). This museum is dedicated to his achievements and his impact on U.S. history.
Follow the North Star
Experience life as a fugitive slave during a journey through one of the most compelling periods in Indiana's history. Conner Prairie’s nationally-acclaimed, award-winning Follow the North Star experience, developed from years of extensive research, is unlike any other. This interactive glimpse into our shared past will affect you in ways that reading a book or watching a movie about it cannot.
Dinner: The Journey
The Journey is truly a unique, colossal Sushi - Prime Rib and seafood buffet featuring only the finest and freshest ingredients to create a memorable journey in Japanese/American inspired cuisine!
Links
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/makehistory2e/MH/Home.aspx
Great website for maps, documents, and images relating to US History, all PPT ready.
http://deila.dickinson.edu/slaveryandabolition/
Digital collection of books and pamphlets on the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century. Include first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
This is an amazing website for images to do with slavery in the Americas.
Historian Faculty
Amrita Myers, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Indiana University Department of History. She is an historian of the black female experience in the United States and is the author of “Sisters in Arms: Slave Women’s Resistance to Slavery in the United States” (1996) and “Black Women, Religious Rhetoric, and the Legacy of Abraham Lincoln,” Journal of African American History, forthcoming. In 2009, Dr. Myers was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize-Best Article on African American Women's History, for “The Bettingall-Tunno Family and the Free Black Women of Antebellum Charleston: A Freedom Both Contingent and Constrained,” Association of Black Women Historians.