Primary
Resources
Documents, online here and available through our partners, for teaching any American History class.
Find out more..
Using ESSEX History is a three-year project to improve the quality of American History instruction in Essex County's middle schools and high schools through teacher seminars and summer institutes on the people, places and events of
Essex County, Massachusetts.
Explore early settlement, maritime and industrial sites in Essex County.
Find out more..
Developed by teachers using primary and field resources available here and throughout Essex County.
Find out more..
Documents, online here and available through our partners, for teaching any American History class.
Find out more..
Teddy Roosevelt and the World
May 14, 2008
The Rise of the New Right
April 28, 2009
Early Cold War
March 9, 2009
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
January 30, 2009
The China Trade
November 19, 2008
The Culture of Jim Crow
October 29, 2008

Primary Sources - Year Two, 2006 - 2007
Women and Abolition in Massachusetts, October 2006
The Fighting Founders: Political Conflict in the Early Republic, November 2006
Integration: Ole Miss, Little Rock and Boston Busing, December 2006
Religion, Revival and Reform: The Second Great Awakening and Its Legacy, January 2007
The Roaring Twenties, March 2007

The Changing Landscape of Essex County, March 2007
About 20 Miles Outside Boston: The Growth of Suburbia in the 20th
Century, April 2007
The Fishing Industry in Essex County, May 2007
The '76ers: Turning Points in American History, Summer Institute 2007
Primary Resources - Year Four, 2008 - 2009
The Culture of Jim Crow, October 2008
The China Trade, November 2008
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, January 2009
The Rise of the New Right, April 2009