WarandProtestSessionResources

** War and Protest: Examining Responses to Indian Removal and the Mexican American War ** // With Owen Stanwood, Boston College and Diana Grady and Kit Dunlap, Buzzards Bay Writing Project, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth // DECEMBER 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. – READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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** Cherokee Removal Resources **
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** Oliphant, Adam, ed. “Northern Humanitarian Protest over Indian Removal.” Austin Community College. //[]// ** This is an annotated collection of primary and secondary sources related to Indian Removal. The primary sources might be useful in demonstrating “found poetry” or in providing context for a RAFT assignment. The first document (will need to scroll past the table of contents) is the letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to President Martin Van Buren that we used with “found poetry.”

** Mintz, Steven, ed. “Indian Removal: Interpreting Primary Sources.” Digital History. //[]// ** This page contains very brief excerpts from primary sources related to Indian Removal (we used them for the RAFT writing).

** “Indian Removal Resources.” //TeachUSHistory.org. []// ** This page contains links to a variety of resources around Indian Removal. Note particularly the ones on “Protest to Indian Removal.”

** “Trail of Tears Painting.” //Africans in America. PBS.// //[]// ** This links to Robert Lindneux’s 1942 painting “Trail of Tears.” According to the website there are no primary source images (at least none that survived) from the actual Trail of Tears. The website at [] provides a glimpse of the Trail of Tears as painted by a Cherokee Indian. (Note that there is no date reference; it appears that the image is a more modern depiction.)

**__ Mexican American War Resources __**

** Mintz, Steven, ed. “War Fever and Anti-War Protests.” //Digital History.// []** This site provides a summary of Mexican-American War Fever and Anti-War Protests.

** Thoreau, Henry David. “Civil Disobedience.” 1849. //Thoreau Reader. The Thoreau Society.// []** Access selections from from Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.”

**Santos****, Gonsalo, ed. “Paintings and Photos of Manifest Destiny.” University of California. []** While not specifically related to the Mexican American War these images do get at the idea of Manifest Destiny which was a key rationale behind the war.

** “Manifest Destiny.” US Mexican War. PBS. ** [] This site contains information, interviews with professors, and video clips around the idea of Manifest Destiny and the Mexican American War.

** Erbach, Jennifer, ed. ”Lincoln, Patriotism, and Protest: Lincoln and the Mexican War.” The Mexican-American War, Northern Illinois University Libraries. 2004. []** This page of a site on the Mexican American War contains selections of primary sources from Abraham Lincoln regarding his position against the War with Mexico.

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