History is not a recitation of facts. Peoples interpretation of them, sometimes people believe in history not based on facts at all, and this lecture. When it comes to colonial america how we define the term is critically important, whose past are we discussing, where is it situated, these sound like basic questions but they are not. What encompasses colonial american history changes over time and how we choose to interpret the path matters. It does include answers to the questions of what to celebrate, who or what do we silence and what people, places and eventss do we consider important. Most monuments do a lot of this work. Outside college courses, one of the reasons pedagogical insight here, we study primary sources and i ask you to look at historical interpretations of the colonial american past. Everything from the names on street signs to disney films to halloween costumes, you see a picture here and monuments to people we discussed and we continue to discuss today. In silencing
At the beginning of this course i asked each of you to tell me what you think of when you think of colonial history. Many of you dont remember what you put, im sure. I will give you a little synopsis today. Many of you focused on what historians would called the historian revolutionary era. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues about taxation without representation, other founders and the imperial crisis of the war popped up. A few of you mentioned places like historic jamestown, plymouth plantation in massachusetts, and Colonial Williamsburg. A few people mentioned the history of slavery. It was notably because either or the 1619 project or the black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or individual Indigenous People by name, and no one, if i am remembering correctly, mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less west of the mississippi or the rockies or west coast. Technically spe
The colonial era. George washington, thomas jefferson, alexander hamilton, taxation without representation, other offenders and the imperial crisis of the war popped up. A few of you mentioned places like jamestown, plymouth plantation, jamestown, and williamsburg. A few people mentioned the history of slavery. Notably because either the 1619 project or the black lives matter project. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or individual Indigenous People by name, and no one if i am recalling correctly mentioned anything west of the appalachian of thens, much less west mississippi or the rockies or west coast. This runs before contact with indigenous europeans to the end of the seven years war french and indian war. Covers hundreds of years, millions of lives, and a which were women coming together of people from africa, mostly enslaved and not of their own volition as well as multiple europe,s and empires in england being the one among these and not even the firs
Capitol and statues of columbus and pocahontas. This video was provided by the university of delaware. Welcome toanslin history of colonial america. I am professor zara anishanslin. At the beginning of this course i asked each of you to tell me what you think of when you think of colonial history. Many of you dont remember what you put, im sure. On whatyou focused historians would called the historian revolutionary era. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues about taxation without representation, other founders and the imperial crisis of the war popped up. A few of you mentioned places like historic jamestown, plymouth plantation in massachusetts, and Colonial Williamsburg. A few people mentioned the history of slavery. It was notably because either or the 1619 project or the black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or individual Indigenous People by name, and no one, if i am remembering correctly, m
Remember what you put but many of you focused on what historians would call the American Revolutionary era rather than the colonial era writ large. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues like taxation without representation, other founders and historical highlights and the imperial crisis in the war all popped up. A few mentioned paces, historic james town, plymouth plantation. A few mentioned slavery. What i thought was interesting was because it was because of either the 1619 project and the summer black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or m Indigenous People by name. No one mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less west of the rockies or the west coast. Technically speaking this course runs from before contact of europeans with Indigenous People in the 15th century to 1763, the end of the 7 years war, french and indian war in what is now the territory called the United Stat