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National and Imperial Power in 19th-Century U.S. Travel Fiction (m19518)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: American literature, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, imperialism, nationalism, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, the Americas, travel narratives
Summary: This module considers strategies for teaching George Dunham's travel journal A Journey to Brazil in conjunction with nineteenth-century U.S. travel fiction.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 71.55%
Revised: 2009-07-27
Revisions: 13
Using untranslated materials in research (m13830)
Summary: This module explores the value of using documents that have been translated from Spanish into English in their original version for research purposes. Its intended audience is undergraduate students who are native speakers of English and who are learning Spanish. NOTE: TRANSLATIONS ARE NOT YET AVAILABLE ON-LINE. PLEASE VISIT ... NOVEMBER, 2006.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 58.54%
Revised: 2006-10-09
Revisions: 4
Using original documents on the Mexican American War (m13831)
Summary: This module will explore how to use original documents on the Mexican American War for research purposes. Its intended audience is undergraduate students.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 96.47%
Revised: 2006-10-18
Revisions: 14
José Martí: A Letter to the Board of Advisors for Key West (m23122)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: American literature, Cuba, Marti, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership
Summary: This module examines an unpublished letter by José Martí within the context of his larger life and writings.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 83.18%
Revised: 2009-05-12
Revisions: 2
Slavery, Violence, and Exploitation in 19th-Century U.S. Literature (m19519)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: American literature, Brazil, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, slavery, the Americas, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Summary: This module considers strategies for teaching George Dunham's travel journal A Journey to Brazil in conjunction with U.S. anti-slavery literature.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 92.52%
Revised: 2009-07-28
Revisions: 7
Slavery, Resistance, and Rebellion across the Americas (m22079)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: American literature, Brazil, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, slave revolt, slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Summary: This module suggests strategies for incorporating George Dunham's nineteenth-century travel journal, A Journey to Brazil, into literature and history classrooms engaged with the topics of slavery and slave revolt.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 99.05%
Revised: 2009-07-28
Revisions: 5
Pan-Americanism in the Wake of Latin American Independence (m31444)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: Bolivia, Mexico, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, pan-Americanism, Simon Bolivar
Summary: This module uses a letter by Anastasio Bustamante, third President of Mexico, in order to comment on the ideology of pan-Americanism in the 19th century.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 53.52%
Revised: 2009-08-19
Revisions: New
Gender and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic World (m32169)
Author: Robin Sager
Keywords: emancipation, gender studies, Jamaica, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, slavery
Summary: This module uses an anonymous commentary (ca. 1827) to discuss the Atlantic anti-slavery movement as well as political debates over the punishment of slave women.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 79.47%
Revised: 2009-10-01
Revisions: 3
The Experience of the Foreign in 19th-Century U.S. Travel Literature (m19517)
Author: Cory Ledoux
Keywords: American literature, Brazil, Holy Land, Manifest Destiny, Mark Twain, 'Our Americas' Archive Partnership, Richard Henry Dana, the Americas, travel narratives
Summary: This module considers strategies for teaching George Dunham's travel journal A Journey to Brazil in relation to other nineteenth-century U.S. travel narratives.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 65.72%
Revised: 2009-07-28
Revisions: 12
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