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This collection contains PDF versions of educational material created by Rice-affiliated authors in the OpenStax CNX publishing platform. The collection is intended to support access to Rice-affiliated material after CNX is retired in August 2022. Learn more here: https://openstax.org/blog/saying-goodbye-cnx
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Item Introduction to Hemispheric Studies(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMariaThis module provides a brief introduction to hemispheric studies. It works through examples of how a hemispheric approach can be employed and overviews the direction of the field. Finally, this modules discusses the hemispheric approach of the Our Americas Archive Partnership and the type of documents it holds.Item The Civil War Through Contemporary Accounts: The Diary of Alexander Hobbs(Rice University, 2010) Lang, AndrewUsing the wartime diary of Alexander Hobbs, this module explores how teachers and scholars can approach the Civil War on the Gulf Coast.Item Discovering U.S. Empire through the Archive(Rice University, 2010) Ledoux, CoryThis module explores 19th-century relations between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the U.S. and Native Americans through the travel journal of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.Item Rare Letters of Jefferson Davis(Rice University, 2009) Ledoux, CoryThis module explores an archived group of rare and unpublished letters written by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.Item Pan-Americanism in the Wake of Latin American Independence(Rice University, 2009) Ledoux, CoryThis 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.Item Literary Skills and the Archive(Rice University, 2006) Seglie, AnaMaria; Sager, RobinThis collection includes modules that provide specific ways to practice literary skills and study literary forms using OAAP documents. These modules suggest how to discuss colonialism, gender, race, travel, poetry, autobiography, and non-fiction documents through close-reading. In addition, each module considers how these skills can help students understand a document within its hemispheric context.Item The Mexican-American Borderlands Culture and History(Rice University, 2009) Seglie, AnaMaria; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Sager, Robin; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course includes a variety of modules concerning Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, border histories, migration, Spanish colonialism, and health care. AP history teachers might use this course or individual modules within it to help teach sections on transatlantic encounters and colonial beginnings, colonial North America, territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the development of the West in the late nineteenth century. These modules represent the following themes: American diversity, American identity, culture, religion, demographic changes, economic transformations, religion, and war and diplomacy.Item Hispanic Culture for the Spanish Classroom(Rice University, 2011) Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Chang, Grace; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis collection includes cultural-themed modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the introductory Spanish language classroom (high school and college). It includes reading passages and lesson plans that emphasize Hispanic culture through authentic material (such as photographs, images, letters, documents, etc.), available for free on the Our Americas Archive Partnership website.Item Spanish Literature/Literatura en español(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Ledoux, Cory; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis collection includes modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the AP or introductory college Spanish language classroom. It includes lesson plans, reading passages, and resources such as glossaries, that can be used for classroom activities, homework, and special projects to emphasize culture and authentic material.Item Print Culture in the Americas(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Ledoux, Cory; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course includes modules discussing the print materials surrounding slavery and abolition, the plagiarism of historical materials, historical advertisements, and the circulation of texts throughout the Americas. It could also supplement sections such as the U.S. Civil War, and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power AP history and literature curricula. The themes of this course include historiography, American diversity, American identity, culture, race relations, reform, globalization, and slavery and its legacies.Item Spanish Language/Clase de lenguaje(Rice University, 2011) Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis collection includes modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the AP or introductory college Spanish language classroom. It includes lesson plans, reading passages, and resources that emphasize the Spanish language using culture and historical material.Item Glossaries and vocabulary lists(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis collection contains resources such as glossaries and vocabulary lists that were created for use with historical documents found in the free Our Americas Archive Partnership site. They were written for high school AP Spanish students and college students.Item Using Historical Documents(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Bailar, Melissa; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Chang, Grace; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course provides useful ways and materials from which to discuss historical records, documentation, print culture, and rare materials for AP history teachers. Teachers and students could use these modules to discuss and learn about different forms of historical research and historiography.Item Travel Literature and History(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Adams, Carolyn; Sager, Robin; Ledoux, CoryThis collection provides modules on different forms of travel. It includes lessons on transported labor and slavery, travel journals, travel fiction, migration, and U.S. imperialism in hemispheric and transatlantic travel. Literature teachers could use this course or individual modules within it to help teach literary genres such as the slave narrative and abolitionist literature as well as nineteenth-century sea-going texts such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick or Benito Cereno. Literature teachers could also use this course to teacher narratives about the West. For history teachers, these modules provide ways to expand lessons concerning colonial North America, territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny, the Civil War, and the development of the West in the nineteenth century.Item Revolution and War in the Hemisphere(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Bailar, Melissa; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Sager, Robin; Ledoux, Cory; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course offers AP history and English teachers teaching material for studying different wars throughout the Western Hemisphere. The collection is organized into three major sub-folders: Caribbean and Latin American independence movements, the U.S. Civil War, and the U.S.-Mexican War. Each sub-folder has two or more modules or pedagogical essays within it covering a variety of topics. The modules begin with the history of Latin American revolutions in the early nineteenth century and continues into the 1890s. History teachers could use this course or individual modules to bring together different moments of crisis, rupture, war, and revolution during the nineteenth century from throughout the Americas. Educators can find suggestions for teaching sections on the early republic, the transformation of the economy and society in antebellum America, territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny, the crisis of the union and civil war, and the development of the West in the late nineteenth century. Literature teachers could use these modules to supplement sections on antebellum and seminal Civil War literary texts such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and late nineteenth-century political novels and writings such as those of José Martí. The themes of these modules include American diversity, American identity, revolution, globalization, demographic changes, economic transformations, culture, war and diplomacy, and slavery and its legacies in the Americas.Item Slavery in the Americas(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Ledoux, Cory; Sager, RobinThis course includes modules that AP history and literature teachers can use to introduce students to slavery within a broader hemispheric context. It includes discussions of slave sales, labor, gender, rebellion, and revolution. This course or the individual modules within it could help supplement sections of American studies courses concerned with transatlantic encounters and colonial beginnings, colonial North America, transformation of the economy and society in antebellum America, religion and reform, the union in crisis, and the U.S. Civil War. The course's themes include American diversity, American identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations, reform, war and diplomacy, and slavery and its legacies in North America. Literature teachers might use this course to find suggestions for teaching slave narratives, abolitionist writings and novels, and Civil War literature.Item Catholic Missions and Spanish Colonialism(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course offers a series of modules through which AP history teachers can introduce histories of Spanish colonialism and Catholic missionary work in the Americas. Topics include colonial economies, Mexican-American border history, and race relations. Major historical themes from AP history curriculum include American diversity, American identity, culture, economic transformations, and religion, and apply to historical outlines concerning transatlantic beginnings and colonial encounters as well as sections on colonial North America.Item Yellow Fever: Medicine in the Western Hemisphere(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Adams, Carolyn; Gauthereau-Bryson, Lorena; Sager, Robin; Villarreal, Lorena; Gauthereau-Bryson, LorenaThis course provides a series of modules that discuss yellow fever, disease, the building of the Panama Canal, and health care in the U.S. South and throughout the hemisphere. History teachers could include this course or individual modules from this selection in sections covering the development of the West in the late nineteenth century, urban society in the late nineteenth century, and the emergence of the U.S. as a power in the early twentieth century. Topics and themes include economic transformations, demographic changes, health care, and medicine.Item The Atlantic Ocean and Hemispheric Histories(Rice University, 2011) Seglie, AnaMaria; Sager, RobinThis course includes a variety of modules concerning the Atlantic World and Atlantic economies. It allows students to study how the networks of the Atlantic intersected and overlapped with those of the Western Hemisphere. Topics include colonial economies, agriculture, slavery, gender, and anti-slavery print culture. This course also covers majors themes that apply to AP history and literature classes such as American diversity, American identity, culture, economic transformations, and slavery and its legacy. Teachers could include this course or individual modules within sections on transatlantic encounters and colonial beginnings, colonial North America, the early republic, and the American Civil War. Literary teachers could explore this course for its references to the literary texts representative of these historical time frames and themes.Item Our Americas Archive Partnership(Rice University, 2011) Ledoux, CoryA collection of pedagogical and research modules designed in conjunction with the Our Americas Archive Partnership, a collection of primary documents that suggest a hemispheric, rather than a strictly national, approach to American cultural studies.